Today, December 23rd, 2nd Afteryule, is also the date on which we celebrate Festivus, the holiday for the rest of us. 🙂 Air your grievances! Raise your pole! Perform feats of strength! Why Festivus has caught on I couldn’t say. Maybe everyone needs a sanity moment from the onrush of Christmas. Or maybe, just maybe,Continue reading “On Festivus”
Monthly Archives: December 2005
On The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
I saw The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe last night. Overall opinion? The film was okay. Not great, mostly good, but overall, just okay. Adequate. I first read the books when I was six. CBS had done an animated version of Lion (just bought it on DVD, btw), and my family and I hadContinue reading “On The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”
On a Span of Time
Today I will have worked for EB Games as long as I worked for Payless ShoeSource–just slightly shy of seven years each. And remember, Festivus is two days hence. Have you put up your Festivus Pole? Are you ready for the Feats of Strength? Have you prepared your Airing of Grievances? Festivus, the holiday forContinue reading “On a Span of Time”
On Wiretaps
I saw this on John S. Drew’s LiveJournal: “When you see this, post it.” Which I’m doing. 🙂 “Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires — a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we’re talking about chasing down terrorists,Continue reading “On Wiretaps”
On Writing Letters
Yesterday I mailed off a letter to my Congressman, Representative Brad Miller. As I mentioned a few days ago, Representative Miller has sent me e-mails on occasion, and I decided to write to him about the recent revelations regarding the President’s decision to flaunt the courts and the Constitution and institute illegal wiretaps on personsContinue reading “On Writing Letters”
On Farpoint
I’ve decided to attend an upcoming Star Trek convention–the Farpoint Convention in Baltimore the weekend of February 17th through the 19th, 2006. Same hotel, almost the same people as the Shore Leave convention I attend every July, but I’ve never been to the February convention, I have a week of Christmas comp time to take,Continue reading “On Farpoint”
On a Remington Steele Revival
Pierce Brosnan, in a recent interview, had this to say about his breakout role as private detective/con man Remington Steele: Brosnan hopes to bring Remington back in a big-screen version of the series. “The show is out on DVD now and so we have started negotiations on making a movie out of it,” he says.Continue reading “On a Remington Steele Revival”
On a Murderous Santa
One of my employees, Natalie, brought this to my attention. Joel Krupnik’s home Christmas display consists of a blood-splattered Santa Claus holding a decapitated head. The meaning of this display? To quote: [H]is family thought it would be a fun way to make a comment about the commercialization and secularization of Christmas.” Ooo-kay. I’ve seenContinue reading “On a Murderous Santa”
On Being an English Nerd
I saw this test on several friends’ webpages. Am I an English nerd, or what? 😉 True English Nerd You scored 91 erudition! Not only do you know your subjects from your objects and your definite from your indefinite articles, but you’ve got quite a handle on the literature and the history of the languageContinue reading “On Being an English Nerd”
On December Dreariness
Today’s miserable. It’s raining. It’s cold. If the temperature drops much more, the roads could get nasty, icy. North Carolinians don’t handle wintry conditions very well. No, not well at all. They panic. They raid grocery stores. The abandon cars on the highway. The city takes on the cast of a Balkan warzone. Me? IContinue reading “On December Dreariness”