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Category Archives: Family

Coming Out at Christmas

It’s rare that tottering around YouTube finds one a new classic of the internets, but today it did indeed and in truth do even so. Behold, the London Gay Men’s Chorus performing Coming Out at Christmas:

and these are not the lyrics, but they ARE amusing.

Comme J’ai Mal by Mylene Farmer

Given the transition of Faceless Day into a new face for raincoaster, this seems like a good time to introduce this video by Franco-Canuck Mylene Farmer. It’s the first song that made me aware of her, and it only did that because of the awesome power of this particular video, which just happens to be [...]

What the Playing Cards tell about your future

Mine is creepy. Swell.

What Your Playing Cards Tell About Your Future

Right now you are facing some major difficulties, especially in the financial arena.
Your emotions are currently tied to a close friend or confidant. You have known this person for a long time.
Your closest friend always can cheer you up… whether it’s through flattery, funny stories, [...]

an open letter to teens

I didn’t write this, Lennie James did, but I’m glad to have this opportunity to pass it along (an Open Letter is Open, right?). This appeared in the Guardian a few days ago, but realistically I can’t think of a time or place in any city that this wouldn’t be important to read.
To whom it [...]

Whatever Works!

Well, it’s practical. This has to be the cheapest method of governmental family planning assistance of which I’ve ever seen. Truly, this is brilliant.

Slimeballs!

cross-posted from TeenyManolo, with a bit of editing
Everything old is goo again!
(I had to; it was there)
Yes, GenX’s favorite toy (besides Pong, that is) is celebrating its thirtieth birthday this year. As with everything and everyone who turns that undeniably-adult age, its tastes have changed over time to something more…sophisticated?
Say hello to Love Slime, Hot [...]

Surfwise, Livedumb

I’ve been waiting for this to hit YouTube: the trailer for a documentary of an archetypal American character, the freewheeling intellectual.
As a somewhat freewheeling intellectual myself, I feel no hesitation at saying that Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz was a completely self-centered man who confused hedonism with enlightenment and whose pathalogical need to be “different” rendered him [...]

Ritalin: Breakfast of Champeens

Yep, this is pretty much how it is lately.

From Worth1000.com’s Fun With Propaganda contest
In Soviet Canuckistan, Fun has YOU! I don’t know what it means, but I’m a little fried lately so I’ll take what I can get, inspiration-wise. This could ramble; you’ve been warned.
Is this the time to mention (will there ever be another [...]

A thousand words

You know what they say…

Passed along by Mistress Cowfish at CelebratingTheAbsurd
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Wanted

Job posting of the year, this one.
I have a friend. My friend is smart. My friend is funny. My friend is possessed of a wide and varied range of interests and a keen appreciation for what people call “having a life” that precludes her putting mundane concepts like Calvinism, Liberal Guilt, or Suburbianism ahead of [...]