Not much of worth to say today. I seem to have a caught a tickle in my throat that has decided to move on to becoming a bit of a cold. I’m coughing and sucking on lozenges. I’m not feeling chatty or verbose, so I’ll just offer random comments here and there as I share sights of the season.
First… more of me. To the world. Yeah, it’s kind of an obsession this time of year. If you look at the bottom “JOY”, you’ll see that, apparently, I cost $19.99. Now that’s a bargain for some “JOY” in your life!
Next, random photos I shot on the 16th while sitting around, shooting the shit with lecram and friends. I was fascinated with taking blurry photos of my Chivas and car keys, apparently. Sometimes I don’t know why I do what I do. I just do it, and it either sorts itself later, or just remains a random happening with no point.
I took the above and below photos because I couldn’t decide which I liked better… the one is a little more ‘clean’, the second has that gritty, urban, crappy-Fresno look. Perspective is everything.
And then, on Thursday, was Mm Mm Christmas. Go here to see some video shot during the proceedings.
Mm Mm Christmas is this thing these guys have been doing for… umpteen years. I got invited this year. It’s a reason for people to get together with the excuse of singing Christmas carols. And if you don’t know the words… you “mm mm mm” along until you get to the part where you do.
There was singing:
Crafty ornament making: (Here you will see a sketch done by lecram of our lovely bartender, and my contributions… what I thought were ornaments appropriate to a bar setting)
Polaroid photos taken to commemorate the occasion: (That’s Zonthar, me, and Jag… and no, it really IS better that you can’t really see us in my photos of the photo)
And… eventually, Peanuts/Snoopy dancing:
What was *I* doing during all these festivities? Ensuring that there is a warm place in hell for me by creating the following from the crafty ornament supplies.
The first… not so bad. It’s just crass (or… “kiss my ass”):
Yes. It hangs on the tree there, now.
But then, I moved on to “callous and insensitive”. But only at Jag’s request. It’s a commissioned piece of art, you see. I asked what sort of ornament I should craft next, and he said something about an artistic rendering of the planes crashing into the twin towers… and… well… I picked up the scissors… the paper…:
He was so moved by my personalized effort to bring him holiday cheer in a way that he could understand it that he took it home, and I’m sure now it holds a place of honor upon his refrigerator. Or… somewhere.
Yup. Goin’ to hell.
And.. speaking of hell… Saw Sweeney Todd yesterday. Podling came along. We both LOVED it. Nephew Timinator was there as well. He found it to be a bit on the graphic side, but enjoyed the story and music. Had the pleasure of the company of both lecram and APJ. We all thought it was great. Then we went out to the Chicken Pie Shop so lecram and I could order these seasonal offerings:
OH, so tasty. Red meat pies. APJ and the children weren’t brave enough to try them, but came along and ordered other fine comfort food.
Time for a nap. I can’t be sick for Xmas. Dad’s still recovering from a triple bypass the week after Thanksgiving. All he needs is a virus-y daughter bringing him that special gift of pneumonia.