"Canadian school apologises to oil workers for 'green' Christmas theme "

 "In a Canadian oil industry town, schoolchildren singing about Santa's sleigh going electric and images of Rudolph the reindeer with a fluorescent bulb for a nose has provoked a backlash."

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Further On..

"She-Bang what? Absolutely not." Ricky Martin has twins via a surrogate. - link

Coilhouse Magazine, Issue 01 is finally here! link

"Christmas on Mars" is the first feature film from the Flaming Lips - link | Trailer

Project Runway Challenge: Dressing drag queens is no small feat. That do-me red dress really stood out. link

Guy Maddin's "Brand Upon The Brain!" - just out on DVD - link

"Didn't you used to hate Walt Disney above all others?" "Yes. But now it's Spielberg. I think Spielberg is the son from when Walt Disney fucked Minnie Mouse." -- Alejandro Jodorowsky - link

Tell me-- do you trust the FDA? link

DNC protesters would be locked up in a city-owned warehouse in a building that includes barbed wire-topped cages and signs warning of stun-gun use. - link

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MERRY CHRISTMAS ANYWAY!

Who's working today? I may work some tonight, too. My daughter and my son are both working today. He's almost through and she just went in to work 3P - 11P. She still works for Virgin Mobile over at Sitel Corp (which used to be called Client Logic). Everybody in Asheville has either worked for Client Logic or knows someone who has.

So to everyone and especially those working, I wish you a Merry Christmas, and all the other pertinent holiday greetings today.

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Hope you have a scintillating Solstice
A delightful Yule
May your mirth be multi-orgasmic
Your visions vibrant
Your glee glorious
Your festivities fulfilling
And your halls decked with Love and Peace.


Christmas Links

It's A Wonderful Internet! - via: zefrank (who still happens to have some of the best timewasters around)

Holiday-O-Matic - Create a delightfully random holiday greeting.

Showing Off those Christmas decorations.

Live Christmas lights Cams - See after 4:00 pm Mountain Time (3:00 pm Pacific, 6:00 pm EST)

Winter Solstice at Stonehenge - a photoset on Flickr

Ugly Christmas Lights

Xmas in Frisko: SomaFM's wacky and eclectic holiday mix. Not for the easily offended.

RECENT PLAYLIST
(Now) Buck's Ducks - Silent But Deadly Night
13:01:19 Eva Moon - Light The Fucking Candles
13:00:14 Anote you - Shotgun For Christmas
12:58:01 Dean Martin - Blue Christmas
12:55:17 Rockapella - Like Christmas
12:52:34 Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio - White Trash Christmas


In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus

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From the "You can't be serious" file:

"Plastic replica of an 11-12 week old fetus, 3″ long, holding a firearm in its precious little hand, with an assortment of other military paraphernalia, encased in a translucent plastic ornament, with a patriotic yellow ribbon on top. Includes a metal ornament hanger. If only a womb were this safe, attractive and reasonably priced!

"Show that you support the 'culture of life' by buying and proudly displaying one of these patriotic unborn Americans.

"Also available in a 'Brown' model"

For the car-ribbon stickered dittohead war-on-Christmas knee-jerk mouthbreather in your life!

via: maru | via: we love america

Go on. You know you want one. How about Lock 'n' Load Jesus?

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Later, Sailor...

Later, Sailor...

Is everyone back in the groove yet from the weekend? I was especially happy to have spent time with my favorite cousins and it just meant the world to me to see the two of them. We reminisced about childhood memories that usually involved tricking our parents somehow. We spoke of those family members that have passed on, the successes and trials of those still with us, and laughed mostly.

We grew up together in two houses on the same piece of property. We later moved and visited each Christmas and took trips together and we stayed at Boone Lake on our boathouse. I almost forgot about that. It seems so long ago.

That boathouse sure was some great fun. I recall when that big old monstrosity was built and thinking how tall it looked; not realizing there's a lot of it that goes under water. If I ever get the chance to buy a houseboat I just may do it and live out my days on some beautiful lake. Watauga Lake in East Tennessee is downright magical.

Do you have a dream scenario on how to live out your days? Captain Cook would like to sail around the world so we both have "boat" dreams.

Separate dreams. Separate lives.

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