Monthly Archives: December 2011

Have A Great New Year’s Eve

Posted on December 31, 2011 by

The movie from which this comes, Get Crazy (1983), alternates between silly and point-blank dumb at times, but it’s still my baseline for New Year’s Eve live music events. I’ll also warn you all that I see no reason why … Continue reading →

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Have a Great Weekend

Posted on December 30, 2011 by

And now a summation of 2011:

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Have a Great Weekend

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I’m living in my own private Tanelorn

Posted on December 29, 2011 by

Radio silence over the last week, mostly due to having a surfeit of vacation time at the Day Job that needed to be burned off or lost. This meant that, like the protagonist in too many really downbeat novels, I … Continue reading →

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I’m living in my own private Tanelorn

Posted on December 29, 2011 by

The biggest difference between the Czarina’s family and my family: Christmas dinner. My maternal grandfather, who loved to cook but didn’t like the time wasted on long trips, would have laughed himself sick over this. My paternal grandfather would have … Continue reading →

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Have a Great Weekend

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

Your choice: the official video on a really old VHS dub: Or the single: Either way, Bad News taught Spinal Tap everything they know.

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“The holiday horror…the horror…”

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

For those who haven’t met Mary of Black Walnut Dispatch in your forays across botanical cyberspace, I regret that she isn’t my little sister. Anyone with as much of an appreciation for unmutilated crepe myrtles as she deserves an emergency … Continue reading →

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Plans for the new year

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

Time to change perspectives ever-so-slightly. I know that you’re currently caught in the horrible Mad Max/Dawn of the Dead mashup known as “the shopping season.” Most friends in the Northern Hemisphere already want to shiv me for mentioning that we … Continue reading →

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Disturbing parallels involving “The Blair Witch Project”

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

Back in the early Nineties, back during the beginnings of my science fiction essay writing days (which made about as much of an impression as Jeffrey Dahmer’s track record with managing vegan restaurants), I was a regular guest at a … Continue reading →

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Have a Great Weekend

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