Just thought you’d like to know
The song that has been in my head all day is the Psychedelic Furs’ “Dumbwaiter.” No, I don’t know why, but I am thinking of visiting Walmart’s hardware section and buying an electric drill. Or digging up the old cassette tape that has the song on it (playing it about five times will cure this little problem).
“She’s so prettyyyyyyy…………….”
Don’t forget the Fundraiser!
Update: speaking of Walmart — oh come on. I’m not going to boycott Walmart for this. It’s at least one of the most hilarious things I have read in a long time — “The colors associated with ‘christmas’ red and white are actually a representation of of the aminita mascera mushroom”???? Gosh, and I thought it was because of green evergreens and red holly berries; but then I never went through the college-dorm experience, staying right at home and working my way through college, so for me mushrooms have always been a pleasant addition to spaghetti sauce or delicious morsels when sautéed in a little butter and sherry. Anyway, rather than boycott them, I think we should encourage them to release more such witticisms, perhaps as regular press releases or maybe even in the form of a biweekly newsletter in which they enlighten the lumpish red-state Americans in such things as the Quechua origins of that custom of putting lace doilies on the backs of couches, how the Inuit practice of lacing their mukluks with deer sinew was the forerunner of those little sweaters for dogs, and so on. Besides, my local Walmart started putting their Christmas stuff out before Halloween. (Via Kathy Shaidle.)
Second update, because I am too lazy to write a new post: I have 80 whole cents in my CrispAd account! I’m as excited as a little girl getting her first pony, or only pony, or something like that… Anyway, thanks person or people who clicked, or bought an ad, or did whatever it was you have to do to earn me money! (I will admit I am a lousy capitalist and am unsure how these things work…)
November 9th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
Gimme all your paper ma so I can buy a train
Don’t know how I got in here it’s making me insane
Have another cigarette oh have another cigarette
In a room where lovers go, coughing on the telephone
They have got it in for me . . .
Well, that ought to get me good and banned. I used to love that song, it’s probably still my favorite of theirs, but all day long of it and, yeah, you’d want a drill. Fast.
November 9th, 2005 at 8:45 pm
Gah!
I love the song too. That’s the problem.
November 9th, 2005 at 11:02 pm
Look! An ad! I clicky… Kind of pointless since I’m not about to order customised stationery from America, but anyway.
November 9th, 2005 at 11:38 pm
You don’t want our customized stationery? Why?? It is tasty! It is crunchable! Eat it! Eat i–
Uh, never mind.
I have coffee ads too! And futons! Everyone loves coffee and futons!
November 10th, 2005 at 11:10 am
aminita mascera (actually amanita muscaria) is a poisonous mushroom that is psychotropic in small amounts; it has nothing to do with Christmas. Red and white are symbolic of blood and purity.
Saint Nicholas (Santa) was a bishop of Myra (not in the Caucasus).
Mistletoe was a Druidic custom (the author got one thing right).
The timing came from the Roman Saturnalia.
The tree was a Germanic custom.
I think the supposed author of the response may have been indulging a bit before composing that mish-mash of ‘facts’.
November 10th, 2005 at 8:39 pm
What bugs me about the Wal-Mart thing is my sneaking suspicion that they wouldn’t have the stones to poke fun at, say, Ramadan.
So maybe if Christians blew up infidels and apostates and murdered gays and repressed women, instead of just being accused of all those things by lefties, Wal-Mart would treat them with some respect.
November 10th, 2005 at 8:51 pm
Unfortunately you’re probably right.