Q. What is the difference between Santa Claus and a work of fiction?
A. Nothing. Both offer rewards for a willing suspension of disbelief.
How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com
How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com.
Take the quiz. See if the answers match up with your “dialect.”
Holiday Reprise: “Santa’s Setback”
This is a note to tell you
that Wall Street has taken away
the things I really needed:
my workshop, my reindeer, my sleigh.
I now make my rounds on a jackass;
he’s old and crippled and slow.
So, if you don’t see me come Christmas,
I’ll be out on my ass in the snow.
Santa mounts a new challenge.
[Editor’s note: original appeared in Dec. 2012, but brought back because it still applies. And because I can.]
Filed under cartoon by author, Christmas, poetry, Santa Claus, satire
Benjamin Barber on Capitalism and Democracy | BillMoyers.com
Benjamin Barber on Capitalism and Democracy | BillMoyers.com.
Manufacturing needs and wants underminds us all.
Filed under capitalism
How Changing The Definition Of One Word Might Make TV Shows Worse But Real Life Better
How Changing The Definition Of One Word Might Make TV Shows Worse But Real Life Better.
Something to consider. How do you define family?
Filed under Family
Star Trek XI Alternate Ending: The Prime Timeline is Restored – YouTube
Star Trek XI Alternate Ending: The Prime Timeline is Restored – YouTube.
Back to the “real” or reel future. My preference is for the original series as it was, not as it has been re-imagined. It loses to much for me in the “re-translation.
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Filed under Star Trek
Detroit-Based “Write A House” Awarding Free, Permanent Houses To Writers
Detroit-Based "Write A House" Awarding Free, Permanent Houses To Writers.
Maybe this will catch on in other cities.
Filed under writers
Photo finish Friday: “Blue lights, blue questions”
A Blue Christmas?
Are these blue lights draped around a motorcycle engine the sign of a holiday police dragnet? A sudden K-Mart blue light holiday special buy? The remains of a collision of a motorcycle and a Christmas tree (including the candy cane)? Picasso in a new blue period just in time for the holidays? A physical manifestation of the ghost of Elvis opining that he will have a Blue Christmas without you? Whatever it is, it is a little larger than your average stocking stuffer.
Filed under Photo by author, Photo Finish Friday
Maps of Seven Deadly Sins in America | memolition
Maps of Seven Deadly Sins in America | memolition.
Looks like Washington, D.C. is blushing red in almost all these maps. Also, parts of the South show up often, too. Hmmm.
Filed under Uncategorized
Haiku to you Thursday: “Adorning”
Moonlight, winter songs /
candles flicker to voices /
adorning the night.
Young carolers in Old North Knoxville. The start of a new tradition.
Filed under Haiku to You Thursday, poetry by author
