So I missed wishing everybody a Happy first night of Chanukah, but commentor J. at J-Two-O gives me a chance to rectify my oversight… __ __ As an animist, and a progressive, I believe in celebrating every possible festival of lights. The Neopagan calendar’s four cross-quarter festivals are Imbolc (candles), Beltane (bonfires), Lammas (hearthfires) and …
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Early Morning Open Thread: Small, Networked World
__ Gawker (Gizmodo) told me about this, and later let me know that it did indeed reach Walter C. May’s girlfriend…. virally. Comments seem to be split between snark about linking ‘viral’ and ‘girlfriend’, and the suspicion that the whole thing is just another marketing ploy. As an Old Person, the thought of being tracked-via-proxy …
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Early Morning Open Thread: Smacking of Readership Capture
Since I am not a Straussian: By commentor request, I plan to post an “Artists In Our Midst” thread this evening, for everyone’s holiday-shopping convenience. If you or your loved ones have art or craftwork to sell, get your links lined up, and be ready to put them in the comments. Meanwhile, a little solstice-themed …
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Late Night Open Thread: Music
As commentor Monkeyboy pointed out, Thanksgiving is a harvest holiday… __ __ __ For those of you who have to work Black Friday (especially in retail), an anthem: __ It’s the neon butterfly wings that make the video.
Early Morning Open Thread (Pet Stories Bleg)
__ Oh, Mary, this London’s a wonderful sight; There’s people here working by day and by night; They don’t sow potatoes, nor barley, nor wheat But there’s gangs of them digging for gold in the street. At least, when I asked them, that’s what I was told, So I just took a hand at this …
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Late Night Open Thread
As half the populace gears up to travel cross-country and the other half prepares for their visits, many thanks to commentor Republic of Stupidity for news of the latest snark against security theatre: (Available from Skreened.) I think it would coordinate nicely with a bold, manly kilt… ABC News reports that “Some women may be …
The boot, the roots, the reggae on my stereo
A friend of mine just sent me this YouTube video of Neil Diamond returning to his old neighborhood in Brooklyn. He talks to people on the street (many of whom are West Indian, I think) and one guy asks him what songs he did, he runs though a few, which the guy has never heard …
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