Channeling Jeff Foxworthy
Mountain Dew Christmas Tree
Happy Fourth of July
Fourth of July, 1916, Childe Hassam, who the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC featured in 2004.
I couldn’t resist this either
Canada Day Celebrations
People have been busy on Sunday with Canada day parades and picnics across the Lower Mainland. Families and friends flocked to the music and events at Granville Island, Richmond and North Vancouver and now many are planning to head to the fireworks. Vancouver will have fireworks at 10:30 tonight and they are happening […]
Happy Summer Solstice
And, oh how they danced, the little children of Stonehenge
STONEHENGE, England (AP) — Druids, drummers, pagans and partygoers welcomed the sun Thursday as it rose above the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge on the longest day of the year — the summer solstice.
Clad in antlers, black cloaks and oak leaves, a group of druids cheered […]
Paul Revere’s Ride, the 21st Century version
Listen my children and you shall hear
- insensitive to the hearing-impaired, no ASL inset
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
- in violation of Massachusetts seat-belt and helmet laws
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
- non Y2K-compliant wording (not even Y1.8K compliant)
Hardly a man is now alive
- grossly chauvinistic, patriarchal, and misogynist
Who remembers that famous day […]
Flag Day
TIME Magazine Cover: The American Flag - July 6, 1942
Be sure to click on the TIME link and look at their magazine covers from the summer of 1942: Rommel, Shostakovich, Marshal Timoshenko, Halder. The iconography of all of the bespeaks a less ambiguous time, or certainly a less ambiguous TIME.
Compare TIME’s current representation of Zarqawi […]
Yell at a Republican
Easter message from Pharyngula
PZ Myers concludes his anti-Christian, anti-Easter screed thus:
This holiday has a longer tradition than the Christian church, and is associated with the return of Spring. So celebrate life. Go for a walk. Plant a tree. Read a good book. Have a conversation with someone. Write a poem, paint a picture.
The lesson you […]
Belated Festivus Greetings
As long as we’re going to have a War on Christmas, and Hanukah and Kwanzaa are too limited, what could be better than a wholly secular new holiday inspired by a “Seinfeld” episode?
Three important Festivus traditions:
Gather Round the Festivus Pole: A latter-day addition to festivus celebrations, traditionally a simple aluminum pole. While tinsel is strictly […]
The ‘A Christmas Story’ Story
Don Surber: “You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out”
Sometime this evening, my wife will return home from work, turn on the TV, and for the next 24 hours or so, members of the Surber household will occasionally cast an eye on Ralphie Parker’s pursuit of an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle.
We know the […]
Christmas in Bethlehem
O Joyful Town Of Bethlehem
A steady stream of worshippers braved cold, rainy weather Sunday to celebrate Christmas in Bethlehem, where spirits were lifted by the largest turnout of foreign pilgrims in years.
Despite the foul weather, Bethlehem residents had reason to smile. About 30,000 pilgrims converged on the birthplace of Jesus for Christmas celebrations this year, […]
Beth’s Christmas Gifts to Bloggers
Tee shirts to sugar
Gotta love my gift. Thanks, Beth.
Rusty’s is pretty cool too.
Prediction Flowchart for Geek Gifts
Seems very accurate to me
Another Great Christmas Gift
Super Bass-o-matic ‘76
Here’s how it works: Catch a bass, remove the hook, and drop the bass - that’s the whole bass - into the Super Bass-o-Matic ‘76. [ drops the bass into the blender ] Now, adjust the control dial so that the bass is blended just the way you like it. [ turns blender […]
Home Christmas Sound and Light Shows
From Beth, see these videos (wmv files) of home Christmas light displays, set to music.
The most impressive one, this xmaslights.wmv video ought to be called “Christmas on Acid, ” or “Timothy Leary meets Santa Claus.”
More links at WonderlandChristmas.com. Some of these are a lot of fun, especially the “Feliz Navidad” pieces, but none match […]
The Moron “War On” Christmas
Will somebody tell Fox News to give up on this one? Gibson and O’Reilly are banging the tin drum on this meme and it’s hurting my ears!
There is no “War On” Christmas. There are plenty of Madonna stamps. They still say “Merry Christmas” in Sears. And they will not ban “It’s a Wonderful Life.” […]
