David Sidarus, a frequent comedic contributer to a variety of NPR programs, has written a really delightful essay on gun ownership and Dutch Sinterklaas traditions. Someone on YouTube has put the audio of Sidarus reading that essay in three parts, together with a bunch of pictures of Dutch Sinterklaas celebrations and related "funniest home video" moments. The whole thing is about 15 minutes long and it is definitely worth watching. I have attached all of the videos here so that you should be able to click on the picture to watch it here or you can click on the link underneath, which will open the video in a new page. I think the fact that he is an NPR employee should be sufficient gaurantee of both his sense of humor and his class (although I gather that some of Sidarus's other essays do include occaisional vulgarity so you might use caution if you want to look up some of his other stuff).
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
December 5--Sinterklaas, Part One
In the Netherlands, as I've mentioned before, everyone gets way more Christmas related action than we do in the US. On December 5th, Sinterklaas comes with the Zwarte Pieten (he has several helpers, usually) and provides treats and presents for good childeren and coal, beatings, and even kidnapping and enslavement for naughty ones. Nowadays, this threat is apparently mostly representational as you can buy Sinterklaas bags of goodies which includes a bag holding gift shaped candies (they are kind of like those hard, orange, marshmallowy "circus peanuts") which comes inside a larger bag holding "kruidenoten" (or "spice chunks") which are kind of like miniature (quarter sized), hard ginger-snaps which are representative of lumps of coal.
David Sidarus, a frequent comedic contributer to a variety of NPR programs, has written a really delightful essay on gun ownership and Dutch Sinterklaas traditions. Someone on YouTube has put the audio of Sidarus reading that essay in three parts, together with a bunch of pictures of Dutch Sinterklaas celebrations and related "funniest home video" moments. The whole thing is about 15 minutes long and it is definitely worth watching. I have attached all of the videos here so that you should be able to click on the picture to watch it here or you can click on the link underneath, which will open the video in a new page. I think the fact that he is an NPR employee should be sufficient gaurantee of both his sense of humor and his class (although I gather that some of Sidarus's other essays do include occaisional vulgarity so you might use caution if you want to look up some of his other stuff).
David Sidarus, a frequent comedic contributer to a variety of NPR programs, has written a really delightful essay on gun ownership and Dutch Sinterklaas traditions. Someone on YouTube has put the audio of Sidarus reading that essay in three parts, together with a bunch of pictures of Dutch Sinterklaas celebrations and related "funniest home video" moments. The whole thing is about 15 minutes long and it is definitely worth watching. I have attached all of the videos here so that you should be able to click on the picture to watch it here or you can click on the link underneath, which will open the video in a new page. I think the fact that he is an NPR employee should be sufficient gaurantee of both his sense of humor and his class (although I gather that some of Sidarus's other essays do include occaisional vulgarity so you might use caution if you want to look up some of his other stuff).
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I let the boys watch these videos and now Jacob is saying "six to eight black men" a lot. Oops.
ReplyDeleteLOL! That kid . . . =-)
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