Hey, everybody! It’s the last day of Kistchmas, so let’s play Holiday Mashup! Here’s how it works: You take the Nativity story and something else that’s nothing at all like the Nativity story, and you put them together and see what you get! Ready? Go! The prophets fortell the chosen one Who makes my [...]
Welcome back to our annual celebration of Kitschmas! Today’s theme is: Nativity scenes made of things that should not be used to make Nativity scenes. Brace yourselves…. You never sausage a nativity! It’s made of bacon, yet it’s still in bad taste! (Sorry. I know that jokes that bad aren’t kosher.) What child [...]
A year or two ago at Kitschmastime, inspired by the Crescat, I delved into the world of tacky nativity scenes. I don’t know what I was thinking. But, like all bad ideas whose time has come, it turned out there was far too much material to use in one year. So, speaking of bad ideas, [...]
Among the many All Hallows’ Eve festivities at The Hog’s Head (which you ought to visit if you haven’t) was a friendly competition to come up with poetic epitaphs for characters from the Harry Potter series. There were lots of really good entries, both original and re-appropriated, some entertaining and some very moving. I contributed a few trifles [...]
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…I fear that (not to name any names) the recent fad of popular books and movies about Teenage Mopey Angsty Vampires may signal a twilight of art appreciation. It will be many a new moon before the works of great composers like Grieg will eclipse them in popularity again. But I’m an optimist at heart, [...]
Because we all could use something funny this week: 1. Tax Advice Failblog reports that the following appears on the IRS website: Living in Chicago, I have to admit I’m not entirely surprised, but still… doesn’t this explain so much about our political system? And in case you were wondering, yes, it’s totally real. There’s [...]
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