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drinking for charity

You're going to go to Lackman Bar anyhow, but now you have one more reason. From Thanksgiving until Christmas, Four Entertainment Group (4EG) will donate a percentage of all bar & restaurant sales from each of their 8 Cincinnati locations to the Drop Inn Center.
You can visit any 4EG location in the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area; aliveOne, Mount Adams Pavilion, Keystone Bar & Grill, The Stand, The Sandbar, The Righteous Room, Tap & Go, and The Lackman to help with the cause. Each location will be offering food and drink specials throughout the holiday season to help raise money for The Drop Inn Center.

Just think, the drinker you get, the warmer a homeless person gets. win-win.

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OTR Holiday Pop-up Shop

I touched on the OTR pop-up shop a couple weeks ago with the Holiday kick-off party but they didn't have any merchandise stocked at that time.
I've always loved the idea of pop-up shops, here today with a bunch of unique items then gone forever. This isn't quite the same in the traditional pop-up shop sense, more a super charged kiosk for OTR business without a brick and mortar presence.
Open weekends through Christmas you'll find stuff that you can't find anywhere else.
Food, clothing, objet d'art, and other items of interest, there's a little bit of everything.

50% of the purchase from the OTR coffee goes to the OTR Foundation, good coffee and a good cause.

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Light Up the Square

The official opening of the holiday season downtown got off with a big bang Friday night. The largest crowd I can remember for a tree lighting the crowds spilled out into 5th and Vine St for the celebrations.

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Sid Saturday

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101st Thanksgiving Day Race - 2010

Wildly warm morning for Thanksgiving and a good thing with the rain, it would have been miserable otherwise. This was practically Flying Pig crowds for the race, I wonder how many ran?

You can't hear him of course but Ronald was pointing and shouting "5chw44444444444444r7z"

Eric Finan the winner, congrats
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Happy Thanksgiving

I've been making this Apple-Cider Pie forever, but I'm not gonna lie, I like making the pie mostly because it gives me an excuse to use this peeler/corer/slicer that we have, ultimate geek kitchen tool.

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Le Lotus Paris, France

Cool little cigar shop that a twitter friend Kris turned me on to. The Opera District, Paris France is another neighborhood with streets seemingly put down without thought or reason. Without reason until you consider the streets sprang into existence 1500 odd years before the car did.
This one one of the few places where when asking "une photo" they said oui!
The pastry shops? they all looked at me like I had a third eye and said NO!
I pity the Parisian food bloggers.

Looking at this guy, no wonder we were asked for directions so often. I had a button up, blazer and jeans on the whole time we were there, I probably blended right in with the Europeans.
The Opera District almost seemed like Asians outnumbered everyone else. At the time I thought they were Japanese but with time to think about it I wonder if they were Vietnamese with that country being a colony so long.
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Sunday in the Park with Jackie

There's a reason small towns have that quaint and picturesque reputation, mostly because they're so quaint and picturesque. Walking around Chillicothe with Jackie, her brother, his girlfriend and another friend I couldn't help grinning ear to ear looking around trying to take it all in. And every shop we entered or left they'd see someone they knew, I forget sometimes how cool that is. And quiet, it was so quiet I thought my ears would pop. Now before you think I've lost my mind here let me frame this, I grew up in a very small town so I know how this works. You know everyone yes, but the downside is they're all up in your biz-ness. But I wouldn't let those thoughts drag me Sunday, no I was enjoying it too much.

a horse and carraige, never saw one of those before

Yoctangee Park was "donated" to Chillicothe in 1906 by the Logan tribe of redmen, at least what a plaque said, can't find anything online about it.
Not sure whats more amazing, that Indians still lived in the area in 1906 or that they loved white people sooo much they gave them the park.

This concession stand has been operating for 40 some years although they claimed to have never bought anything there.

As I've rushed full speed ahead through my life propelled by momentum I've been lucky enough that every so often someone has appeared, planted a foot, grabbed my hand and changed my trajectory. She'd rolled her eyes to hear me say it, but I really can't imagine what my life would be like right now if we hadn't met.
Did you see the movie Social Network when Sean Parker turns to Mark Zuckerberg and tells him "drop the the"?
That really reminded me of Jackie. She would droop those pearls once in awhile and 3 years later my blog is what it is.