Lanii Be Good

What!? I love Feist and I love K-OS! I was trying to find the original Mushaboom video and came across this (all of the original are ‘private’…weird)

Anyway, I didn’t even know about her album Open Season where other artists covered songs from Let It Die. This just about made my night. Just about.

Tumblr Booth in the Sound Booth

Good thing my built-in webcam is such great quality!

(via joncontino)

For every pair of shoes you buy from Tom, he donates a pair to a child with no shoes at all. And for a lady who would almost rather have shoes than food, I can get with THAT! My kind of charity! Now you can spend more than you (probably) would have on a pair of shoes AND give to the poor at the same time. See? I told you you could do it :)

True, most of these shoes have a face only a neo-hippie could love. But there are some cute ones that even a hipster could love. I know you have some hipsters on your Christmas list this year. Maybe you are one! At least they’re not as hideous and useless in bad weather so Crocks.

(Now if only Louboutin would do this….of course a pair of stilettos would have to yield a pair of sneakers for the child. But even Tom doesn’t give kind -or-kind.)

(via audreyhepburncomplex)

In the middle of the first real chills of winter and the threat of snow, I give you this gift.

My mom in response to my FB status of “SCOOBY DOOBY” - I couldn’t get “Pennies from Heaven” out of my head after watching the clip from Elf.

comicallyvintage:

mudwerks: Wally Wood, Mad magazine, 1961

Easily Mused: Recipe Comics: Axolotl Pudding

Stimulating reading, to be sure.

The Batman bit on the side is HILARIOUS! *guffaw*

Not really but sort of. Here goes #4 .

4. You Keep Using Dis Word; I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

My friend Tricia kindly pointed out to me (and I do mean kindly because it could have been handled quite rudely) that the X originally stood as a totally and completely legitimate abbreviation for Christ. And that people DID and DO use it for words like chrysanthemum (xant) although that is due to X standing in for the “kris” sound and not for Christ.

So, if we can take the author out of the picture for a moment, Xmas or Xtmas or XPmas is simply an abbreviation for Christmas and nothing more. And while you may be tempted to cry out “Ya burnt!” and I may be tempted to type a hackneyed phrase such as “Open mouth. Insert foot.” there is still the matter of the author to contend with. Not many people today, in my experience, understand that when they use “Xmas” it is because of the original Greek letter that looked exactly like an X but was somehow not one. They tend to think one of the three thoughts listed in my previous post. This is why I take issue with the abbreviation.

The deconstruction of language is very interesting to me so I’m glad to be learning these all this. You will not, even given this new information, see me using Xmas, though. I think it’s worth the 1.2 milliseconds it takes to write out Christ and I will continue to do that.

I should mention that this is not a pet peeve I’ve been holding on to, just waiting for someone to invent Tumblr so I could vent about it. I was fairly neutral about the whole thing. Didn’t write it myself but didn’t care much either way about anyone else’s habits. This year, I’m feeling more sensitive.

• Maybe it’s that quite a few Christmas-haters have been using it so I’m making the association there.
• Maybe it’s that there seem to be more Christmas cards and ads with it this year - or maybe with the Interweb there’s just more opportunity to see them.
• Maybe it’s that I just finished writing a skit about a community theatre production in which an actor encourages everyone to remember the real meaning of Christmas and to put HIM back into the show.

Who knows. Either way, now YOU know about the X in Xmas.

(Everyone says:)

And knowing is half the battle.