Thursday December 26, 2024
Santa Anita Park
Santa Anita Malibu Day PPs
| American Oaks (GIT) | $300k g | 3yo f | 10f | Turf | |||
| La Brea S Presented by Don Julio (GI) | $300k g | 3yo f | 7f | Dirt | |||
| Mathis Brothers Mile (GIIT) | $200k g | 3yo | 8f | Turf | |||
| Malibu S (GI) | $300k g | 3yo | 7f | Dirt | |||
| Laffit Pincay Jr. (GII) | $200k g | 3&up | 8.5f | Dirt | |||
| San Gabriel S (GIIT) | $200k g | 3&up | 9f | Turf |
TDN – Santa Anita Wagering Menu Out For Classic And Hollywood Meets
While you’re waiting and anticipating the opening of Santa Anita’s winter meet: Malibu Day, Yule, Christmas, Chanukah, Boxing Day, the Feast of Saint Stephen et al enjoy a few of Phil’s favourite readings, drinks, flicks, Carols, Christmas and other tunes. If you’re waiting for Kwanzaa go sleep in a hut with Jabba.
And Remember that ofttimes Phil just gotta give into the URGE.
Phil has a question:
Will Phil ever tire of that.
Phil has a question:
Will Phil ever tire of that.
And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good.
2 Thessalonians 3:13
Scientific American – Krystal D’Costa – What is Christmas Spirit?
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Phil has a question:
Where is the hype about Flavien Prat needing 1 more graded stakes win in 2024 to break Jerry Bailey’s record from 2003.
“Without promotion, something terrible happens…NOTHING!”
Improperly ascribed to P.T. Barnum
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
Phyllis Diller
The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.
George Monbiot
Phil’s On the Road to Christmas Drink and Flick
Take deeds
Away.
Play music
please.
Garden and Gun – Elizabeth Florio – Fantastic Southern Films—and Their Drink Pairing
TDN – Letter To The Editor: Mystik Dan To California, Why Is It So Difficult?
Why did the Grinch go to the liquor store?
He was searching for some holiday spirit.
Mental Floss – Hollie Stephens – 9 Olde-Timey Holiday Drinks to Whip Up This Winter
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Garden and Gun – Steve Russell – Bourbon Lore: The Big, Beautiful New Book for Whiskey Lovers
Garden and Gun – Helen Ellis – When Can You Stop Sending Someone a Christmas Card?
15 Most Popular Swedish Christmas Dishes
The increase in rhetoric and hate crimes against Muslim-Americans and Syrian refugees is the triumph of fear over ideals. Those engaged in both are doing more to sabotage American values than the terrorists.
Esquire – Sager – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: What I’ve Learned
A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra
Bloodhorse – Bob Ehalt – McPeek: Dubai World Cup or Apple Blossom for ‘Anna’
Bloodhorse – Byron King – She Feels Pretty Catches Eye in American Oaks
Canada’s National Observer – Bartels – Rethinking the tenacity of salt marshes
Would you eat them in a box? Would you eat them with a fox?
Dr. Seuss
Punch – Grant – The Vineyard Falcon Does Not Suffer Fools
Q. What did one Snow Globe say to the other.
A. Things are kinda shaky round here.
Cherry-and-Chocolate Bûche de Noël
This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.
Margaret Atwood
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
Heart Moon Blog – The Yule Fire
Davy and Tracy – Celebrating Yule – The Winter Solstice
Stonehenge Stone Circle – Yule – Winter Solstice
The Vulcan Advocate – Roberts – Canada’s Stonehenge, a Vulcan County treasure
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Ray Bradbury
Atlas Obscura – Terlach – Aurora Hunters Capture the Wonder of the Northern (and Southern) Lights
Outside – Siber – I Spent the Winter Solstice in One of the Darkest Places on Earth
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don’t take anything too seriously, it’ll all work out in the end.
David Niven
Bon Appetit – Emily Saladino – How I Celebrate the Feast of the Seven Fishes
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
Vladimir Nabokov
Bon Appettit – Sommelier Shops For Holiday Wines: Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain
Italy Magazine – Katia Amore – My Family Christmas Eve in Sicily and The Feast of 24 Treats
Mental Floss – Lucas Reilly – 7 Facts About the Feast of the Seven Fishes
Would you like them in a house? Would you like them with a mouse?
Dr. Seuss
Bon Appetit – Sophie Dodd – The 14 Best Italian Gifts for Your Italy-Obsessed Friend
Home Made Italian Cooking – Cara Kretz – Feast of the Seven Fishes: A Sicilian Christmas Eve Dinner
Food and Wine – 21 Seafood Recipes for a Feast of the Seven Fishes
Phil has a question:
After the Feast of the Seven Fishes do you waddle to midnight mass.
Study Finds – Drinking hot cocoa can wipe away stress better than fatty comfort foods
How to Make the Perfect Hot Chocolate
“Most thoughtful hostess gift ever? A timely RSVP.”
Now, don’t get me wrong—flowers, wine, cookies, and candles are classics. Keep ’em coming. Just give them with the intention for your hostess to enjoy them after the party, so she doesn’t feel compelled to vase, pour, plate, or light a fire that makes her powder room smell like a sugarplum fairy was in there for an hour. And give them with the knowledge that they might be regifted. Kay says, “There is a certain candle that is meant to go around the world.”
Garden and Gun – Helen Ellis – What’s the Best Hostess Gift?
If you need a break and are stepping out for dinner and drinks support your Ma and Pas and small Local chains.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
Erica Jong
The Ringer – Holyn Thigpen – The New Christmas Classic
Esquire – Yogi Berra: What I’ve Learned
RTE – Barry Houlihan – The story of how ‘Fairytale of New York’ got its name
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.
J. P. Donleavy
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
Southern Living – 15 Last-Minute Recipes So Good, Our Editors Make Them Every Holiday
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Joyce Carol Oates
Forward – Seth Rogovoy – Is ‘A Christmas Carol’ antisemitic?
A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.
Mark Twain
Phil has a question:
Does demented Donald think that all Republicans are boot-licking sycophants like that useless wussy Mitch McConnell.
Southern Living – 7 Things Southerners Stress About Before Hosting A Party
Wired – School of Rock: The Physics of Waves on Guitar Strings
Q: Why would you use a Bryan Adams CD to cut your pizza when your pizza cutter breaks.
A: It cuts like a knife.
Cold and dark, this time of year,
the earth lies dormant, awaiting the return
of the sun, and with it, life.
Far beneath the frozen surface,
a heartbeat waits,
until the moment is right,
to spring.
Prayer to the earth
My Jewish Learning – Hannukah Food
The Nosher – Susannah Brodnitz – The Real History of Potato Latkes Will Surprise You
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
Montesquieu
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
I paint things as they are. I don’t comment.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Food and Wine – Everything You Need to Know About Cookies
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
William Safire
Front Office Sports – Alex Schiffer – Woody Johnson’s Fingerprints Are All Over the Jets Disaster
Phil Has a question:
Has Woody Johnson become the poster boy for higher succession taxes.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles Dickens
Paulick Report – Mystik Dan Gets Feel For Santa Anita Surface Ahead Of Opening Day Malibu Stakes
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t.
Mark Twain
Bon Appetit – Debary – The Right Way to Open a Bottle of Bubbly
Always Ravenous – Jane – Pairing Pizza with Grower Champagne
Mental Floss – Jon Mayer – A Brief History of Pizza
Henri Matisse
Ahead of Thyme – 50 Best Christmas Side Dishes
Southern Living – Melissa Locker – Is Cleaning Vinegar The Same As White Vinegar? An Expert Explains
Allen’s Double Strength Cleaning Vinegar
The tiger and the lion may be more powerful, but the wolf does not perform in the circus.
Earl Derr Biggers
Salted Caramel Dark Chocolate Cookies
Q. What does the gingerbread man put on his bed?
A. Cookie sheets!
You may like them. You will see. You may like them in a tree!
Dr. Seuss
BBC – William Marshall – The bishop who banned York’s Yuletide
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne
Q. What’s the Grinch’s least favorite band?
A. The Who!
If you surround yourself with clowns, don’t be surprised when your life resembles a circus.
Steve Maraboli.
It’s not what’s under the Christmas tree that matters but who’s around it.
Charlie Brown
Sunset – Farrell – How to Celebrate the Winter Solstice, the Shortest Day of the Year
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Golda Meir
Town and Country – Adam Rathe and Emily Burack – The Best Books of 2024
Yule is when the dark half of the year cedes to the light half. Known as Solstice Night, Awaiting the rebirth of the Sun God. Bonfires, wassailing crops with toasts of spiced cider a time of madness and awesomeness.
In Anglo-Saxon times, according to Crippen, it was customary for someone offering a drink to say, “Wassail!” and for the recipient to respond “Drinkhail!” and for the participants to repeat the exercise until comfortably horizontal.
Bill Bryson
Kitchn – Catalano – I Tried 5 Latke Recipes and This Is What I Learned
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Phil M Stockmen
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