River ,'Objects In Space'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
all I can do is laugh and laugh and laugh and make sure my passport is up to date and that I have water and canned food in the basement. And booze.
And porn (before they take it away). And marital aids (before they take them away). And birth control....
yeah, once the birth control option ends, I will also need to leave.
Everybody suggest one book they love that was published before 1923.
Three Men in a Boat: To say nothing of the dog by Jerome K. Jerome
Quote: Feeling seedy, muses one of them dreamily, "What we want is rest."
They could be Bitches! The snark is supreme.
I send different cards to different people (or did, in the years I've sent cards). Most of our family and friends fall somewhere between [Christian] and [not non-Christian]. They get Christmas cards, usually with a Christian theme, because that is what I am celebrating. Our Jewish friends get Hanukkah cards when I find and send them in time, and "holiday" cards when I don't. One Jewish friend who is an amateur photographer, and makes his own (gorgeous) cards, sends us Christmas cards. My Wiccan cousins still celebrate Christmas. I'm not in card-sending sorts of relationships with any of my completely irreligious friends.
And, it's too cold for you to be out gallavanting, young lady!!!! Though, oh. I'm sure you know this from walking Toto. Bundle up!
Hee! I do know this from walking Toto. Although, I really need to get to class tonight, so there will be some gallavanting out to that.
My choice in cards tends to be dictated by what pretty cards I find. Last year most of them were blank.
I'm thinking of maybe going with "Happy Winter!" this year.
Weatherbug gives a very precise -5.2˚F this morning.
Obligatory mention of the current brisk 74˚F.
My cards say Happy Holidays or some such thing, but I intend to say Merry Christmas inside when I feel like it.
And in other religious-right complaints, they feel W. has fallen from his evangelical status because the White House cards say "Happy Holidays".
Love it. Clearly Dubbya is a closet atheist.
This NYT letter to the editor sums it up for me, a "secular Christian" who does not believe in god:
To the Editor:
Adam Cohen provides an excellent history of the tension between Christian Christmas and its cultural cousin, secular Christmas.
In America, we have two Christmases: one celebrated by Christians centered on the birth of Jesus, and the other a cultural phenomenon celebrated by non-Christians centered on end-of-the-year gift-giving, good cheer and a day off from work.
For Christians, the secular and religious Christmases merge nicely together.
Not so for people who celebrate a non-Christian end-of-the-year holiday.
Images relating to the story of the birth of Jesus belong exclusively to Christian Christmas.
Everything else, including Santa Claus, lights, decorated trees and candy canes, belongs to popular culture and secular Christmas.
The modern trend to wish "Happy Holidays" is not intended to strip Christian Christmas of its religious roots, but to include those who celebrate secular Christmas.
Who can blame merchants for wanting to sell more trees, lights and other popular items to a broad range of customers enjoying the cultural celebration of the season?
Alan Alvord Chula Vista, Calif., Dec. 4, 2005
Love it. Clearly Dubbya is a closet atheist.There's always been a sect of the religious right in this country who doubt his conversion and feel his religiousity is more political pandering than anything else.
What I find funny is that the fundies are essentially demanding that Christmas should be made even more commercialized.
I am not a religious person, but I'm certainly not offended by Christmas cards. I'll take good wishes in whatever form someone wants to offer them. There are few enough good wishes in the world. If they started to make Christmas cards that said, "Merry Christmas! If you're not a Christian, you're going to spend eternity in the fires of hell," I'd feel differently.