Diane's Blog - Holidays

Peace on Earth

nospam@example.com (Diane C.) — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:21:40 -0800

Today is the 92nd anniversary of the 1914 Christmas Day Truce of World War I.

Like that day, may peace break out in the world...even if only for a day.

Merry Christmas to everyone in the pixelated world.

BOO!

nospam@example.com (Diane C.) — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:45:43 -0800

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.

Merry Merry 4th of July

nospam@example.com (Diane C.) — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:19:32 -0700

The fourth of July and Christmas have one thing in common around here at Ocean Beach. The day is cold and grey. Today's 4th is no exception. We're freezing here...no shorts and tank tops for us. I'm not complaining though...the cold keeps the crowds away.

In the spirit of Xmas in July...somone dressed up Santa as Uncle Sam.

The photographer is Lindsay Beyerstein of the blog Majikthise

Midsummer Night

nospam@example.com (Diane C.) — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:58:44 -0700

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

Continue reading "Midsummer Night"

Why Memorial Day?

nospam@example.com (Diane C.) — Mon, 29 May 2006 08:46:09 -0700

From AmericanHeritage Magazine:

The article "Why Memorial Day?" recounts the history of Memorial Day in America and reminds us that the evolution of Memorial Day to a truly national day of remembrance required a lot of forgetting. Forgetting that Memorial Day was about remembering the Civil War dead and the old North-South grievance slavery.

Excerpt from General Order 11: (Creation of Federal Memorial Day)

We are organized, comrades, as our regulations tell us, for the purpose, among other things, "of preserving and strengthening those kind and fraternal feelings which have bound together the soldiers, sailors, and marines who united to suppress the late rebellion." What can aid more to assure this result than by cherishing tenderly the memory of our heroic dead, who made their breasts a barricade between our country and its foe? Their soldier lives were the reveille of freedom to a race in chains, and their death a tattoo of rebellious tyranny in arms.

So when you read or see on television that inevitable pundit piece on the American public's unforgivable forgetfulness on Memorial Day, just remember that forgetting is a necessary part of Memorial Day.

Now go out and enjoy your day off and spend some time with the family.

Friday Poem

nospam@example.com (Diane C.) — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:22:44 -0800

A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But God be with the Clown --
Who ponders this tremendous scene --
This whole Experiment of Green --
As if it were his own!

Emily Dickinson

Happy St. Patricks Day

P.S. We're doing Corned Beef & Cabbage & Turnips & Potatoes tonight.

Presidents Day Post

nospam@example.com (Diane C.) — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:06:05 -0800

Hey.. I almost forgot President's Day. Here's a toast to Silent Cal and Give em Hell Harry...the favorite Prezs of cranky people in the USA. Good night all!

Please Be My Valentine

nospam@example.com (Diane C.) — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:29:33 -0800

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.