After a year of married life in Barcelona, it’s time for turkey and pumpkin pie (if the flu will let me keep it down). Before that though, a quick thank you to friends Gemma and Anton, owners and rock star chefs of Els Tremolencs restaurant in la Garriga, who closed down their dining room last weekend to feed a pile of buddies a feast of canalons, roast chicken, and chocolate mousse cake.

Somehow I lucked into this crowd, so I guess as they say here I must have una flor al cul. That’s Catalan slang for being lucky (literally, I have a flower in my butt). In a few days I will have a turkey in my stomach. That’s American slang for Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Anton’s canalons. Boom.

Better not cough: Santas lobby for H1N1 shots – Swine flu- msnbc.com.

Forgive the Mayan calendar pun and enjoy this run-down of the theory that, according to the Mayan calendar, the world is going to end on December 21, 2012. The graphic was created by David McCandless, and it’s quite fun for you infographic/doomsday/Timewave Zero/anthropology junkies. Also makes me wonder what kind of calendars the Mayans would have left if they’d had access to Photoshop.