Tuesday, October 31. 2006
BOO!
Rising from the internet graveyard is ISNTITOBVIOUS.
(Sound effects..moan..groan...scream really loud)
It's Halloween and time for a holiday post. Halloween precedes Election Day, the day when events get really scary.
I think Halloween is just a warm-up.
Don't you just want to dive under the bed when the VEEP starts talking about torture. I hate to think that one day soon you turn on CNN and the politicians look like executioners. Or maybe wear the dominatrix look. (That might be future Pres_Senator Clinton)
One of the non-issues about Halloween 2006 are sexy costumes for little girls. The culture warriors blame it on the FEMINISTS.
Now how stupid is that. How about the retailers??? I know Gloria once wore the bunny suit....but really it makes more sense to blame Walmart.
I am waiting for sweets to be the issue next year. What! You're letting your little girl (in her hooker costume) start on the road to diabetes and heart disease.
No I have not spent the last six weeks in the hospital due to eating spinach. That's just a rumor.
(Sound effects..moan..groan...scream really loud)
It's Halloween and time for a holiday post. Halloween precedes Election Day, the day when events get really scary.
I think Halloween is just a warm-up.
Don't you just want to dive under the bed when the VEEP starts talking about torture. I hate to think that one day soon you turn on CNN and the politicians look like executioners. Or maybe wear the dominatrix look. (That might be future Pres_Senator Clinton)
One of the non-issues about Halloween 2006 are sexy costumes for little girls. The culture warriors blame it on the FEMINISTS.
Now how stupid is that. How about the retailers??? I know Gloria once wore the bunny suit....but really it makes more sense to blame Walmart.
I am waiting for sweets to be the issue next year. What! You're letting your little girl (in her hooker costume) start on the road to diabetes and heart disease.
No I have not spent the last six weeks in the hospital due to eating spinach. That's just a rumor.
Wednesday, June 21. 2006
Midsummer Night
The longest day of 2006 has ended. Happy Solstice to all!
It has been a warm couple of days in San Francisco and here at Ocean Beach the bonfires are being lit as people celebrate the beginning of summer as people did hundreds of years ago.
From Merrie Ole England's Edmund Spenser:
Ring ye the bels, ye yong men of the towne, And leave your wonted labors for this day: This day is holy; doe ye write it downe, That ye for ever it remember may.
This day the sunne is in his chiefest hight, With Barnaby the bright, From whence declining daily by degrees, He somewhat loseth of his heat and light, When once the Crab behind his back he sees.
But for this time it ill ordainèd was, To chose the longest day in all the yeare, And shortest night, when longest fitter weare: Yet never day so long, but late would passe.
Ring ye the bels, to make it weare away, And bonefiers make all day; And daunce about them, and about them sing, That all the woods may answer,
and your eccho ring
It has been a warm couple of days in San Francisco and here at Ocean Beach the bonfires are being lit as people celebrate the beginning of summer as people did hundreds of years ago.
From Merrie Ole England's Edmund Spenser:
and your eccho ring
Continue reading "Midsummer Night"
Tuesday, February 14. 2006
Please Be My Valentine
Today is Valentine's Day, a day of chocolate and roses, but no one really knows the origin of Valentine's Day. The Romans celebrated Lupercalia, a festival of purification and fertility on February 15th. But even the republic-era Romans didn't know why the festival was held or which god or goddess was being honored. It was spring and they wanted to have a good time.
Valentine's Day has a long history in the West and is now being celebrated as well in South and East Asia.
Read these stories with a box of chocolates and enjoy the day.
