[Note: Today's post is brought to you by the capital letter "C," for Catholicism. This is the second offering in the three-part sequence, "Putting All 3 C’s Back In Christmas," begun yesterday with I’ll Have A Blue (Springs) Christmas. It is also, to appropriate television's euphemism du jour for re-run, an encore presentation1 of material [...]
Entries from November 30th, 2006
Papa Christmas: Prada-wearing Pope Denounces Commercialism
November 30th, 2006 · Comments Off · Holidays-Celebrations
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Have A Blue (Springs) Christmas
November 29th, 2006 · Comments Off · Fascinations, Holidays-Celebrations
Putting All 3 C’s Back In Christmas I acknowledge that I am not a natural with the Christmas thing; I am, in fact, sometimes quite the Grinch. Julie,1 on the other hand, took genuine delight in the holiday,2 as do a number of my friends and family. Consequently, I make a counterphobic effort this time [...]
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Add-on Cyber-Bookmark: More On Stoppard
November 28th, 2006 · Comments Off · Media
Sizing Up Stoppard Slate has re-published a 1999 piece about Tom Stoppard, Sizing Up Stoppard, by A.O. Scott, who, as Slate’s introduction to the reprinting puts it, argued that the playwright was ultimately more of an entertainer than a revolutionary artist. Scott concluded, “What we get is mostly less than meets the eye: the erudition [...]
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The Elf Box Curse
November 28th, 2006 · Comments Off · Friends-Family, Holidays-Celebrations, Julie Showalter
The Fallibility Of Saints As already noted in Thanksgiving Memory, Julie1 was, like Mary Poppins, only “practically perfect in every way.” (Emphasis mine, not Ms. Travers’s) After all, someone who was perfectly perfect wouldn’t stash the Thanksgiving Turkey in the oven and then turn on the self-cleaning cycle, effectively preparing the bird for cremation rather [...]
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Buckley Channels P.G. Wodehouse, The Times Does Stoppard, And Web Sites Explore Words
November 27th, 2006 · Comments Off · Aha! Items, Fascinations, Media, Poetry
DrHGuy Cyber-Bookmarks: 27 November 2006 Cyber-Bookmarks From DrHGuy are annotated links to arguably worthwhile, recently published online reading, new or revised websites of potential utility or ostensible interest, and other internet-accessible experiences that, were it not for the casually collected, cavalierly collated, & capriciously collocated components comprising these posts, could easily be overlooked – which [...]
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Another Post, Another Petard
November 26th, 2006 · Comments Off · Self-Referential
From The Heck Of A Guy Lexicon Blog (blŏg), noun An especially efficient process for constructing petards upon which to publicly hoist oneself. ______________________ Going Postal The Principle Some readers may recall my September 20, 2006 Quasi-Quotation Quarantine post ranting about, among other issues, the villainy of distorting quotations by omission, i.e., changing the meaning [...]
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Pre-Christmas No-Buy Zone
November 25th, 2006 · Comments Off · Bagatelles, Holidays-Celebrations
To: Potential DrHGuy Christmas Gift Recipients From: DrHGuy Date: 25 November 2006 Subject: Impending Onset Of Pre-Christmas No-Buy Zone ________________________________________ This notice is sent as a courtesy to remind you that after midnight, 1 December 2006, purchases of items which could possibly duplicate, obviate, or otherwise lessen the value of gifts I may or may [...]
Two Overachieving Puns, One Punchline
November 24th, 2006 · Comments Off · Bagatelles
The So Bad It’s Kinda Funny Mahatma Gandhi Joke Q: Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him what? [...]
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Thanksgiving Memory – Man Triumphs Over Industrial Might To Assure Family Will Be Overfed
November 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off · Holidays-Celebrations, Julie Showalter
Turkey Fixé À L’intérieur Du Four À Cuire: The Turkey Story Julie Didn’t Write That this episode qualifies as a Thanksgiving Memory signifies how uneventful most DrHGuy family Thanksgivings have been and how few of my recollections don’t fit the “Apotheosis of St. Julie” theme. It Was A Thanksgiving Like Any Other, Until … After [...]
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Heckofa Haka, Inc.
November 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Friend, are your days filled with contentiousness and treachery? Are you buffeted by a never ending, soul-sucking procession of dunderheads, dolts, and dirtbags with whom you must deal without reliable support? Is it becoming more and more difficult to reach into your psychological reserves and find the strength to hold steadfast in the storm of [...]
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