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Helloooo ... hellooooo ... echo! Echo!
We took a deep breath, we tensed our legs. We closed our eyes, ran forward, gave a primal yell and leaped into space. And before we knew it, the Christmas season was behind us.
How'd y'all do? Did you make it to the other side?
As my family can attest, when it comes to Christmas, I go through the five stages of grief between the day after Thanksgiving until approximately December 23. On that day, I finally lower my clenched fists from in front of my eyes and take a good look around. I revel in the cheesy yet touching traditions of the Christmas season, I sing along with the radio, I kiss people I barely know, and I appreciate all that humans do in celebration of our shared love of family and community. I finally welcome Christmas.
"Better late than never," says BB every year.
It's Saturday, and it's the weekend before Christmas. Let's see. What shall we do together?
Watch Donny and Marie's 1978 Christmas show? No, I couldn't be that cruel.
Reconfigure our outside lights to look like the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Getting closer ...
I've got it. A nice harmless flash game. All you have to do is feed Mr. Sproutifarts his Brussel sprouts while keeping his, er, wind, well below the danger level. There now. Wasn't it worth stopping by?
We lurves the Facebook parodies. Here's Genesis on Facebook, and here's Pride and Prejudice. [thx Nancy]
Is your Congressperson wasting his or her staff's time on social media, corresponding with a lot of 15 year olds about the latest Weezer album or what have you, instead of working hard and earning your tax dollars? Find out with TweetCongress. Type in your zip code to see if your representative in Washington has a Twitter account. Then, come election time, you'll know exactly what you have to do.
Speaking of government reps on Twitter, this got posted yesterday at 4 pm by Arnold's staff. "BREAKING: Live press conference regarding state budget at 4:20pm at http://gov.ca.gov." Really? 420? Holy shit. We knew it had to be bad news if Arnold's staff felt they had to warn us to get stoned first. (And it was.)
Everyone's getting into the holiday spirit. Even The Guild. Here they are, performing 'The Night Before Christmas', where the rare Christmas Worldspawn, Santa and his Eight Tiny Reindeer, are evil characters that must be destroyed within the Guild's multi-player WoW-type game. Is the Guild up to the challenge? (Might also watch Season One's Christmas special.)
[My daughter accidentally posted this on my blog instead of her own. She decided to leave it here. It's a picture of our dog Sammy. I think his Photoshopped countenance looks better than certain vampire GFs we could name, don't you?]
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It's Saturday, and there's a storm coming this weekend. After it hits and you're all stuck inside, you'll have plenty of time to enjoy the countdown to January 20 while reading the Red Phone Comics [via Fritinancy]. Basically, Dubya calls Obama and Clinton on the Oval Office's Red Phone to dole out wildly inappropriate advice. Hey, you can't blame him. GWB only has a few days left, and then he'll move the whole Bush clan to South America Dallas and we won't hear about him again until the tribunal.
'Night Before Christmas' for secular progressives
Imagined dialogue between Angelina and Jennifer Lopez. See, here's the thing. I feel two ways about J.Lo. She's not the world's best actress, but heaven knows this hasn't stopped others before her. I'm a big fan of romantic comedies, but let's face it. Sometimes in the romantic comedy genre, real training in the craft is just a handicap. No, I think my problem is that J.Lo's looks and demeanor don't match her on-screen characters, in some indefinable way. But if she starred in a movie where she talked like this the whole way through, I'd go and see it, and I'd probably really love it and recommend it to y'all, just like I am now.
Go out in style! As Twitter's @redwhiteandnews said, "Finally, a way to advertise you're a douche even in the afterlife."
Stormtroopers' day at the beach
After the crisis: a parody of 15 corporate logos
And last but not least, beware of the doghouse - a JC Penney commercial done right - and no, I'm not hinting around!
Every year, Alek Komarnitsky of Lafayette, Colorado decorates the outside of his house with Christmas lights. [click the pic to biggify]
Amazing, wot? And here we were satisfied to put up one string and decorate our hedges this year.
Yes, he does all this to his house, his lawn, his driveway, his roof. And then he REALLY goes crazy. He sets up three webcams, and an X10 powerline control technology system that lets his viewers control the 20,000+
lights. They can even mess with Giant Santa and Homer Simpson, and make Hulk roar. Of course, with all the visitors, you can never be sure you control the lights at any given time. And the website is a bit confusing visually. But it's all in the spirit of holiday fun.
The Komarnitskys put this together every year in part to raise money to fight Celiac Disease, which both his children have. Alek says they've raised $30,000 toward research so far. Also, Alek wants us to know this house could be certified by Al Gore - the electricity for the decorations comes from wind power. It's an inconvenient truth! So be sure and visit the amazing webcam house online every evening, from now until Christmas.
Oh but you ought to see the other fellow!
Originally uploaded by George Eastman House
I just found out that Flickr gathered all its public photography archives in one spot: The Commons.
Use their search function and prepare to waste a few hours.
(I love this dog photo from the Eastman House (Kodak) collection, 1885. The pipe and the bandages? And the caption? I think this could be the world's first LOLDOG.)
Okay, this made me smile.
Zappos customer service center looks like a goofy, chaotic mess. Plus, they sell shoes. Wouldn't you love to join?
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