Jul 26, 2022
I’m just saying that we don’t currently have any solid proof that eggo waffles don’t power her psychic abilities and many strong indicators that they do
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I’m just saying that we don’t currently have any solid proof that eggo waffles don’t power her psychic abilities and many strong indicators that they do
October 10th, 8 pm
Art Club Meeting :)
I know I posted this before, but Today is the Day for it
[Image description: a stylized Sun, Earth and Moon (simple circles filled with gradient colors). It reads:
We’ve taken one more orbit ‘round the sun | And I am glad you’re here to share this ride.
The first line of text is contoured around the Sun, in pale gold, and the second line, divided in two, is horizontal beneath the Earth, it dark blue. Description ends
This is my “rebuttal song” to “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” inspired by the various Belsnickel traditions I read about in Santa Claus: Last of the Wild Men by Phyllis Siefker, which I quoted here.
One of those traditions was that the Winter Gift-Giver (by various names) would put the naughty children into his sack and take them back to his workshop (said to be in various places). Some traditions said that he took the children home to eat them (See also: Sasha the Christmas Tiger, and the Yule Cat [YouTube video]), while other traditions said that he took the children captive for one year, and returned them home the following Christmas Eve.
This second version of the legend gave me the plot bunny that that’s where “Santa” gets at least some of his elves: The naughty children are put to work making gifts for the good children -- sort of like community service labor.
(oh, and I changed the criteria for “naughty” from “expressing your unpleasant emotions” to “being a greedy bully”)
(Anyway, this is me singing. My voice is not at its best, here, but it’s not at its worst, either. And it’s the one way I know to teach the song to other people. And if there is one time to sing with more enthusiasm than polish, it should be year’s end. So Sayeth I)
So I’m trying to print out my envelopes for this year’s New Years Cards, and my printer keeps trying to print them in portrait instead of landscape... and then after I yell at it, and call it stupid, it tells me it can’t find the driver... Be nice to your electronics, people. They’re as confused and stressed as we are.
Anyway, here’s the design I came up with for the front of this year’s cards (The new year is the one holiday everyone I know celebrates in common, so that’s what I’ve made cards for, the last few years). I worked on it while listening to @realphilosophytube‘s Shakespeare Stream (What can I say? Iambic pentameter is contagious):
[Image description: a stylized Sun, Earth and Moon (simple circles filled with gradient colors). It reads:
We’ve taken one more orbit ‘round the sun | And I am glad you’re here to share this ride.
The first line of text is contoured around the Sun, in pale gold, and the second line, divided in two, is horizontal beneath the Earth, it dark blue. Description ends]
Inside the card:
However long the journey, may it bring
More joy then sorrow, and more peace than pain
With Human-edited closed captions.
This is why I fear the demise of the United States of America within my lifetime.
As I wrote in a Dreamwidth comment, regarding the recent election in the UK:
I have this dread that 2020 will be the year that the United Kingdom stops being United, and the American experiment with democracy will ultimately fail. In the 1980s, the UK and the US mirrored each other with Thatcher and Reagan, and we're mirroring each other again with Johnson and Trump... and we're both crashing at the bottom of the slippery slope.
Trying to get in that Holly Jolly spirit
Look, I know Christmas Hegemony is is sticky, and in this American culture, it coats everything starting in November, and that gets exhausting. But with the state of the world, I’ve been feeling sad and worried, and I don’t want to close out the year feeling like this, and I need to remember happiness, and renew my hope.
So I want to share some of my favorite Holiday/end of year songs -- maybe ones you might not know -- that I grew up with on the family record player. And invite you (if you want to) to do the same. And maybe we could turn this into a playlist thread.
Here’s one that was on one of my parents’ vinyl L.P.s, back in the 1970s (his talking blues style intro is one of my favorite things):
Lyrics below the cut: