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Friday’s Quizzlet: Wants vs Needs vs Holyfield.


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Appetizer: What is one of your Christmas traditions?
Mimosas on Christmas morning. I will not be participating in that particular tradition this year. I just got to my Grandmother’s place near Toronto after a night in the city Friday with Janet and the best buddy crew, and I did it all powered on club soda. Antibiotics for only 4 more days, but my soda kick is going to be extended indefinitely.

Soup: Who is the easiest person on your list to buy presents for?
My sister. Because she tells me in no uncertain terms what she’s getting.

Salad: What is your favorite Christmas scent?
My Aunt Rosemary’s cooking. Be it ham or turkey. The woman also makes the most amazing carmel popcorn I’ve ever tasted, and she hasn’t seemed to notice I’m 33 as I still get a big bag of it every year.

Main Course: If you could give a fellow blogger a gift, what would it be and who?
I don’t read many blogs for fun anymore. Between writing my own, and reading all the seo blogs I have to daily to keep my saw sharp, it’s an increasingly short list. I suppose I would give Duck a job she enjoyed more.

Dessert: What’s something on your Christmas wish list this year that you need (not want)?
I asked my parents for a suit bag – is that the proper term? A piece of luggage made especially for transporting your suit. I don’t need it. Similarly I didn’t ask for food, water or heat this year. But I’m tired of showing up to weddings looking like Columbo.

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Christmas Sensitivity Training.


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Hello all – I am off to Toronto for the better part of a week. Stay happy, stay safe and remember – the most important part of spending the Holidays with family and friends is that you don’t accidentally offend anyone while privately enjoying your long-standing traditions. I leave you with this (hat tip to Taz)…

“On the 2nd day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my Significant Other in a consenting adult, monogamous relationship gave to me:

TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual drumming,

ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 8-member pit orchestra made up of members in good standing of the Musicians Equity Union as called for in their union contract even though they will not be asked to play a note),

TEN melanin deprived testosterone- poisoned scions of the patriarchal ruling class system leaping,

NINE persons engaged in rhythmic self-expression,

EIGHT economically disadvantaged female persons stealing milk-products from enslaved Bovine-Americans,

SEVEN endangered swans swimming on federally protected wetlands,

SIX enslaved Fowl-Americans producing stolen non-human animal products,

FIVE golden symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced domestic incarceration,

(NOTE: after members of the Animal Liberation Front threatened to throw red paint at my computer, the calling birds, French hens and partridge have been reintroduced to their native habitat. To avoid further Animal-American enslavement, the remaining gift package has been revised.)

FOUR hours of recorded whale songs

THREE deconstructionist poets

TWO Sierra Club calendars printed on recycled

processed tree carcasses

and…

ONE Spotted Owl activist chained to an old-growth pear tree.”

Merry Christmas. So there!

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GoonBlog: The T-Shirt!


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Cut Me, Mick.


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What an uncanny topic, given my current appearance. I am really looking forward to going to see Rocky Balboa tomorrow night. The buzz is good and I always love the underdog. Whether it’s a 56-yr old actor making a boxing movie and having it work – or me not falling down a flight of stairs, liquored. By the way, the photo below isn’t actually me this time.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I put off taking painkillers all day because I had a large report to finish. A consultation with the plastic surgeon tomorrow (I wish I were kidding) and then that will hopefully be the last time I mention this ridiculous misfortune. Again, I’m not referring to Rocky, hopefully.

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