26 posts tagged “holiday”
Here's some Christmas Creep for you.
Bah Humbug:
Buy Nothing Christmas (Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping)
Alternatives to cut Christmas Trees
Something for your Festivus needs
Dear Santa letter generator (NSFK) Not safe for kids
A Santa by any other name:
Holiday Helpers:
The Yule Cat, Jolakotturinn
The Yule Goat, Julbock or Julbukk
Other:
I had this vinyl album as a kid. How cool was I?
Courtesy of the Internet Archive, here are 11 vintage Christmas cartoons for you to enjoy, or not...
Because I, personally, don't care for animation I am going to watch The Great Rupert instead... a story about a squirrel that helps a poor family at Christmas by stealing cash their landlord has stashed in a wall. Ahhh, poverty and thievery at the holidays, how nice.A child is born, and DNA testing proves the BabyDad is Father Christmas. Yeah, I have no respect.
For as much as I say I don't like holidays, I have a lot of posts tagged HOLIDAY, don't I?
EDIT II: The link left by sanityclaus to punk-christmas.com is SAFE.
EDIT: THE SIN CITY SOUNDS WEB SITE IS NOW DEFUNCT. LINKS ARE DEAD.
I might as well get this out of the way so I don't have to think about Christmas until next Halloween...
There are two "punk rock" christmas carol advent calendars on the Sin City Sounds website. Here are the links:
Today is the official start of the holiday shopping season. Are you planning on doing any shopping today? What are you going to buy?
No and Nothing. I am an avid supporter of Reverend Billy's Church of Stop Shopping, and a staunch advocate of the Buy Nothing Christmas.
Taken from OLDSUPERSTITIONS.COM without permission:
At midnight, all the doors of a house must be opened to let the old year escape unimpeded. He must leave before the New Year can come in, says popular wisdom, so doors are flung open to assist him in finding his way out.
Nothing Goes Out: Nothing -- absolutely nothing, not even garbage -- is to leave the house on the first day of the year. If you have presents to deliver on New Year's Day, leave them in the car overnight. Don't so much as shake out a rug or take the empties to the recycle bin. Some people soften this rule by saying it's okay to remove things from the home on New Year's Day, provided that something else has been brought in first. Paying Off Bills: The new year should not be begun with the household in debt, so checks should be written and mailed off prior to January 1st. Likewise, personal debts should be settled before the New Year arrives. Place a silver coin above each door of your house at 11:59 PM before you open the doors to let the Old Year out and money will flow into the house all year long.
Clocks should be wound up immediately the New Year begins in order to endow the house with good fortune, while all daily cleaning and dusting should be completed early in the day of December 31 in order to avoid the danger of sweeping good luck from the house.
Breakage: Avoid breaking things on that first day lest wreckage be part of your year. Also, avoid crying on the first day of the year lest that activity set the tone for the next twelve months
Money: Do not pay back loans or lend money or other precious items on New Year's Day. To do so is to guarantee you'll be paying out all year.
New Clothes: Wear something new on January 1 to increase the likelihood of your receiving more new garments during the year to follow.
Work: Make sure to do -- and be successful at -- something related to your work on the first day of the year, even if you don't go near your place of employment that day. Limit your activity to a token amount, though, because to engage in a serious work project on that day is very unlucky.
Black-Eyes Peas: A tradition common to the Southern part of the United States says that the eating of black-eyed peas on New Year's Day will attract both general good luck and money in particular to the one doing the dining.
A person who lives alone might place a lucky item or two in a basket that has a string tied to it, and then place the basket just outside the front door before midnight. After midnight, the lone celebrant hauls in his catch, being careful to bring the item across the doorjamb by pulling the string rather than by reaching out to retrieve it and thus breaking the plane of the threshold.
Just as the clock strikes twelve the head of the house should open the door in order to allow the Old Year to pass out and the New Year to come in.
Kissing at midnight: To ensure that those affections and ties will continue throughout the next twelve months. To not do this would be to set the stage for a year of coldness.
Stocking Up: The New Year must not be seen in with bare cupboards, lest that be the way of things for the year. Larders must be topped up and plenty of money must be placed in every wallet in the place to guarantee a prosperous year.
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