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Wonderful Christmastime - Toren hates this song. I love this song. Partially it’s because I have a soft spot for Wings. Partially because it’s a cheery counterpart to Lennon’s more demanding So This Is Christmas. And partially because it’s one of the few new Christmas Classics. Every year, a lot of old standards get covered. Every years a lot of crappy new songs get produced. Few remain, as Bing Crosby remains the King of Xmas. But Paul managed to slippy a catchy little number into the early 80s and I dig it the most of all the xmas tunes. And the b-side to this single was “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reggae”, so count your blessings and shut up.

Winter Weather - I know Katherine is married to Jim, but her voice is amazing. You can’t help but love it.

Little Saint Nick - Novelty songs rarely last, and let’s be honest, a surfin’ xmas tune is a little schticky. There were a handful actually, and while catchy, well, 60s surf culture doesn’t extend much into the 21st century. However if you have to listen to some surf xmas, you might as well listen to the Beach Boys. A corny song about a hot rod named after The Jolly Old Elf is elevated with their harmonic chorus of “Run run reindeer”

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Soy’wI’!

I continue, as always, to transfer old materials to my website. Old photos, video, etc. This one surfaced a week ago and while I’m not inclined to post the whole clip, I’m sure some of you will get a chuckle out of it, and as I have no shame, away we go.

This one goes out to Marlo, who loves Star Trek very very much.
Star Trek and I had our painful break up years ago, but I remember what it was like to be devoted to it. And in a lesser sense it goes out to Toren, who has no idea he’s living with the whitest Klingon around.

Marlo, you will never, EVER get to see where this came from. It exists only within my secret garden… and a video tape hidden away somewhere amoung my stuff.

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It’s ups and downs…

Life is a rollercoaster, for the most part. You get good with the bad. Silver linings and all that.

I got hammered by a cold on Friday. And I mean hammered - I fight off the same illnesses everyone else does. I get achy and sniffly. But rarely am I forced into convelecence. Friday I was forced into unconciousness. I slept most of Saturday, and here it is Sunday and I still feel pretty worked over (but the end is in sight.) However, we had a nice gathering of people on Saturday dinner.

Anne Coulter thinks Canada should be, you know. invaded and grateful to the US. They don’t need us, but we need them, or something along those lines, because she’s very unaware that they owe us 5 billion in outstanding trade payments, 23% of their fossil fuels are purchased from us, and rivers and electricity run out of Canada and into the US, not the other way around. But USA number one, so why fiddle with facts.

The best was her arguement about how we’re living under the protection of their nuclear umbrella. We live under it because we’re right next door to them and Russia was pointing a lot of firecrackers at them. One might think it only fair that they shield us… except for the bit where their plan was to set up the Dew Line (that’s a string of radar along the Canadian arctic - ie that’s us being friendly and supportive, if you’d like to keep count), watch for Russian nukes coming over the North Pole, then detonate nukes over Canada to disable the incoming missiles. US safe, Canada gets fallout. Thanks!

It’s always sad to watch empires collapse. But hell, I cried when they demolished the Sands in Las Vegas.

Right, so that’s the downside. Here’s the upside. These are the con exclusives for Hero Clix this year;

Ahhh. Beautiful.

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Also, I don’t want a Rolex

I’m pretty sure that any Rolex you can by through the convinience of spam sent to your email account, probably isn’t a real Rolex. So, please stop. No more online pharmacies and no more special offers on Windows Server 2003 either. I’m fine thanks.

Chris Woods, being the bright and kind soul that he is, sent me this link;

A Real Mystery

I heard a bit about this a year ago, but the article’s author went digging. I’m not terribly shocked by the suggestion that the hardcore fans of Doyle’s master detective (and by hardcore I mean in the same way the Star Trek fans were in Trekkies - cradle to grave, we’ll act like its real) would kill over a secret lost cache of Doyle writings. I need to go find a copy of the New Yorker.

It’s funny, I was having a chat about this kind of mind-set today. There’s a sub-set of society that is insanely devoted to the preservation of the Titanic and all information pertaining to it. These people are rabid to keep the hulk from deteriorating, which, sadly, being at the bottom of a giant pool of brine, is falling apart. Things that deep deteriorate - and things that big can’t be pulled out, so it appears the outcome is inevitable. And these people still lobby hard - to what end, I don’t know.

It just goes to show, as I’ve always argued, that everyone is a geek. Everyone has that one thing that they know inside and out to the bafflement of everyone around you.

We’re all mad, here.

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