Booze-buying is a pretty holiday-centric event. It always happens the day before the holiday, no matter what holiday it may be. And I always say "Happy Holiday!" because what knucklehead yells "HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!"?

You'd think that the 4th, the most Patriotic of Holidays, would warrant the dingwads' hostility before they went after Xmas, but you can't sneer "Happy Fourth of JEW--LIE!" and get away with it. Or bark to blacks in early September, "Happy SLAVE-LABOR Day!" People will call you on your "hidden" meaning on those holidays. But you can pretend that it's all about Jesus, if you start pissing your pants about Xmas starting around Thanksgiving these days.

Edited by author 12-15-2005 04:20 PM
I've been saying "Happy holidays" and sending out non-holiday-specific cards for over a decade. Like Fistlekits said, there's more than just Christmas going on right now. I just don't see what problem people have acknowledging that. If I don't specifically mention Christmas, I'm being anti-Christian? If Christians don't mention Hanukkah, then are they anti-Semitic?

EDIT: Link removed.

OH MY GOD THEY'RE SO OUT OF TUNE AND CAN'T KEEP TO THE RYTHYM AAAAAAAAAAGH KILL ME NOW!

It'd be a cute "carol" if it was in tune, though. ^.^

Edited by author 12-15-2005 03:00 PM
The best take down of the War on Christmas thing so far, that I've seen, was on the Daily Show. You should be able to find it on their website. It's the one called "Secular Central." Too too funny.

Ooo ooo, we had a SHAWT too at work last night. Except this time the S stood for Smelly. Fortunately my nose was stuffed up, but this man reeked so badly that my coworker nearly got sick. It looks like he never bathes or changes his clothes. He sat there for awhile playing scratch off tickets and trying to bum a ride off the other customers. (He's got enough money for scratch-offs, but not to get his car fixed, apparently). I hear he's been there a lot lately, so we're probably going to have to kick him out at some point, since he drives away other customers.

Oh, and I heard that the other day he actually spit tobacco crap into one of our trashcans, and another coworker went off on him, which I'm sorry to have missed. I'm amazed at how disrespectful people are in there, they're always making a mess for us to clean up.

Here's another link: http://mediamatters.org/items/200512080005

I didn't think Oh Really? could look any dumber, but yeah, apparently he can.

EDIT: Link removed.

Waah! Now I'll never know what it was.

Lav and Rabbit: Yep, I saw Jon Stewart totally owning O'Splotchy. After that segment ended, I kissed the TV screen right where his face was.

Jon Stewart was my hero when he first came on the Daily Show. The other guy who hosted was okay, but I knew Jon would bring the show to new heights, and I loved him right away. I hope that one of these days I'll get to sit on that couch and tell him how much hope he's given me.

Of course, I'll have to become famous first.

While scouring the Internets for more on the Stewart/O'Lielly rivalry, I came across this bit from an email from a former Fox "News" Channel producer, which confirms what so many of us have been saying all along.

Splut: It was the MST3K carol "Merry Christmas, If That's Okay." Apparently Mike and the bots' less-than-professional singing overshadowed the humor and message of the song for some people. You can find the song in the Misc section of my website.

Negaduck- Good heavens. Excuse me. I didn't realize I'd been that rude. Sorry, I object to putting "LOL" indiscriminantly in all my statements to indicate that I'm not being entirely serious and certainly not trying to be antagonizing. My apologies.

Just did a lot of Shakespeare research. (Turned in the Shakespeare/Aristotle thesis Wednesday THANK GOD THAT CLAMP IS OFF MY LEG I NEVER WANNA LOOK AT SHAKESPEARE AGAIN.) But the kind of drama he did is famous for not using many props or set pieces. Probably Macbeth's dagger existed only in the mind.

I wrote two whole pages on Oedipus complexes alone. Mom said, "Maybe you should go to graduate school" and I just laughed uproariously and set fire to the local library.

Apparently you can watch whole episodes of Adult Swim shows right on the Interweb:
http://www.adultswim.com/fridaynightfix/index.jsp
Crazy, crazy shit.

At the end of "Kronk's New Groove," there was a coming attractions thing that included a Disney Channel series called "The Emperor's New School." Kuzco is a mischeivious imp in high school, and Yzma is his principal and Oh The Hilarity! and total illogic.
Given the length (about 24 minutes each) and narrative disparity of the Kronk movie, I'll bet that Disney thought of making the movie into "The Kronk Show" before they settled on "Saved by the Kuzco." They're 3 pilot eps hobbled into 1 "movie." Or 2, with the last one being the weak link joining them together.

Bill: Oh, you're kidding me! I haven't seen KNG yet, but I'm looking forward to it, even if it turns out to be a pile of sludge.

But seriously... they're coming out with an actual series?

Here's something I found while touring Progressive Boink the other day... I learned that Owl is cool.

The Kronk Tv series is total news to me. I didn't even know KNG was finished. We wanted that one, it looked like a funny script.
As far as I know, Kronk's New Groove was always intended as a DTV sequel. It's likely they're just using it to push the TV series while they're at it. But I don't think the two are related in the way that The Stitch Movie was a launch for the L&S TV series.

It's not awful. The last 2/3s just doesn't hold up to the promise of the beginning. That 1st half hour is piss-yourself funny.
And it's not a Kronk series; I don't remember him even being mentioned in the promo. Kuzco was obviously not voiced by Spade, and Yzma didn't get a line, so Kitt might've passed on this one, too.

Oh, my gourdness, it's almost X-mas? I gotta go to SC to spend it with my mom (Yay, Mom! And all the kitties and puppies that she has in her home!). I hope you'll all be safe and enjoy the holiday season.

(And let's all try to survive the merciless onslaught of Chrismas songs.)

Edited by author 12-22-2005 11:52 PM
What with Xmas and all, I guess everyone's too busy to look here (I know I'm too tired after work to update), but check this out:

http://www.deviantart.com/view/26739784/

A crappy Davey pic of Wendy and Peter Pan, complete with a gigantic watermark so that no one claims it as their own. (And they got married?!)
No idea what she's sitting on--a giant rock with a sheet over it? Peter's sweeping ballroom dress? A Python Blancmange from the Planet Skyron that's been left in the back of an Edinburgh refrigerator too long?

I hit reload 3 times after my first visit and it's still there, but I can't believe this banner ad that accompanies the pic:

Henry Darger Documentary
Learn more about outsider art in a virtual tour of Darger's work

Holy schotz! Apropos, or what?

Think Davey'll win the drawing contest?

edit: Weirdly, if you click on the PBS Darger link, it's a show from August, and it isn't being replayed right now. And there are no ads on Mimi's page.

So...is the ad thing voluntary, since DVK needs the $, and he's decided that he's no longer "the web's Edward D Wood," but its Henry Darger? Or is it someone at DevArt's comment on our favorite crazy outsider artiste? Or an oddly perfect coincidence?