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There is no Santa Claus…but not why you think

Dirk Voetberg presents this holiday-themed squib.

Merry Xmas!

Gifts received, Beatle flexi-discs listened to, all is well here, hope you can say the same. Jon decries the commercialization of the decrying of the commercialization of Christmas here. Some of Jon’s humor pieces threaten to rend the fabric of time/space. This is one of them. If you need visuals, try the video below.

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Mike’s 80s Dance Party

So I’ve finished the umpteenth draft of this Lennon/Beatles novel, which will be going out to editors after the first of the year. Positive mental imaging is, as always, welcome. For reasons much too complicated to go into here, I found myself browsing YouTube for songs I first heard at Chicago’s late, lamented Medusa’s, an [...]

Beatles AND Christmas, could it get any better?

For reasons that must be all too obvious, the Xmas tradition around these parts includes unwrapping the presents to the accompaniment of The Beatles’ Christmas albums. For some reason, no above-ground source exists for these tracks, which were end-of-year gifts to all members of The Beatles’ Fan Club. (Apple released a vinyl LP in 1970, [...]

This just in: video games are art

Jon turned me on to a new game called “Portal,” raving about how sharp and entertaining the main character (a malevolent passive-aggressive supercomputer) was. Here’s a YouTube video of the ending to give you a taste of how excellently it’s both written and performed. But that’s nothing compared to the song that plays over the [...]

Fellow Friends of the White Shark…

…will enjoy this site from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium. I used to be terrified of sharks (perhaps I’ll write up a story or two sometime), but now I definitely like ‘em. We have an understanding; they don’t bite me when I’m in the ocean, and I–well, I don’t really do anything in return. That’s one [...]