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From Stephen Elliott
After the morning’s mandatory material validation ritual, I plan to honor my personal Jesus, Ganesha, by continuing to stress about all the unknowable crap I can’t do anything about and, of course, pondering the TRUE meaning of Christmas. Christmas is about being “fair” right?
If memory serves, someone very important was born today . . . it’ll come to me . . . oh yes: Gary Sandy of WKRP. Send birthday wishes here.
Yes, Virginia, there is a bat mitzvah Christmas tree ornament.
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So I’m a girly girl. I can’t help myself. My five senses of Christmas are all about fashion, perfume, sex toys, and cocktails.
The sound: Here Comes The Sun.
The taste: I’m partial to the One Night Stand, myself, a tequila chicklet to the core.
...moreWell, through a series of events (unfortunate or not, depending upon your point of view) I am spending Christmas with David Sedaris. That is, the writing of David Sedaris, which I like to think
...moreOne man is rebuilding NYC block-by-block online.
Focus your famished selves on these fantastic food blogs: The Paupered Chef and Homage to Fromage.
India’s best journalists gather and groan.
Karan Mahajan is the author of Family Planning.
...moreHow Batman Saved Christmas, at the ISB: Batman doesn’t just use his amazing powers to prevent psychotic clowns from posing ever-more-complex versions of the Prisoner’s Dilemma. He also safeguards your Yuletide happiness, by kicking Christmas-tree bears
in the face. Why is this comic book not taught in school?
My friend’s marisa’s tattoo couture site. Very interesting and informative and lots of pretty tattoos on pretty people.
Also I like jezebel.com. Good for news, feminist stuff. Hilarious. Informative. Important for me.
I love Violet blue. She is really fun and so brilliant.
...more1. Petey and Pussy
This graphic novel by John Kerschbaum is horrible. You have to look away as Bernie the parakeet pecks off his own leg. I can’t imagine an uglier human being than his owner, the “old lady.” Each awful gag slides easily into the next in this hysterical and well-told narrative.
