A Cthristmas Cthlassic

The Last Christmas

Do you, too, remember this golden Cthristmas Cthlassic from your Cthildhood? I can remember the plot to this very day…

It was a dark and stormy night. In his house at Rlyeh, Great Cthulhu was Fhtagning.

Fhtagn, Cthulhu, Fhtagn.

But though dreaming, he was not dead. He merely seemed dead. In reality, his malign consciousness was free: free to roam the galaxy, seeking ingress to the minds of the weak, the stunted, the insane. Finally, after torturous aeons of fruitless fumblings, he had found his entry point.

Television.

“Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the haunt, Not a tentacle was stirring, not even the night gaunt. The brains were hung by the intestines with care, In hopes that St. Cthulhu soon would be there.”

Infiltrating the airwaves with his inhuman, eldritch thought-patterns the sinister Great Old One was able to connect with those who had remained loyal to him throughout all the dark aeons of his silence. A little “shipyard accident” here, a little “missing in Arabia” there and poof! The stage was set for the Greatest of the Great Old Ones to rise again, striking fear into the hearts of all puny humans.

The stars (m)aligned. The Great Cthulhu rose, slavering for victims.

But how to get to all of them? Why, look to the Ancient Masters for instruction, of course. Who has free access and welcome into all households? Who has profound, unthinkable powers of transportation, manifestation, and time-manipulation? One, and only one being, my friends.

Santa Claus.

Yes, the old man had to be gotten out of the way. Thus began the battle between The Old Man and the Sea Creature from Beyond the Abyss of the Star Spaces and the Clamoring Chaos Which is the End of All Things, by Asenath Waite.

I won’t go into the details of the battle (too gruesome for a wholesome, all-ages blog such as this one) but rest assured, there was much mucous involved.

That accomplished, Cthulhu settled down by the fire with a nice, wholesome snack, and waited for breakfast delivery.

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Merry Cthristmas!

Carol of the Old Ones
lyrics over the jump

It’s that time of year again; the time when families gather together (no, not the reading of the will!) and share what it means to celebrate Cthristmas.

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fishmen
lyrics over the jump

We at the ol’ raincoaster blog have taken to this like Deep Ones to the ocean depths, decorating not one but four different Cthristmas trees. Which one do you like best?

Nyarlathotep, yo

The Azathoth tree

Chihuly Cthristmas tree

The Chihuly tree

Cthristmas Bonus!

The Squid tree

and the latest entry:

Cthulhu Tree

the Octophrost tree

Octophrost, in case you landlubbing types didn’t know, is the Santa of the Sea. Closely related to the Cascadian Tree Octopus, Octophrost brings all the good small fry of the ocean their presents, which he carries in a large ink sac.

Octophrost is made of snow and ice … instead of shooting out ink clouds to hide he shoots out a mini blizzard of snow, that he makes all the toys himself because he’s got eight arms, and other stuff like that.

Naturally. If Santa himself had eight arms, he’d get all that present-delivering crap over with in ten minutes, and the squalling little brats at the mall wouldn’t have a chance when they made a break for it.

Now let’s all sing some Cthristmas Carols!

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Blue Solstice
lyrics, also, over the jump

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Microsoft kills Santa Claus, blames little girls

Dead Santa!

Typical!

In a bid to take over where the Post Office leaves off (North Pole, postal code H0H 0H0) Microsoft this year introduced a Santa Claus MSN bot, for kids who, presumably, have better things to do that wait in line at the mall to talk to Santa.

Then they killed Santa.

From The Register:

Here’s the whopper that Microsoft spokesman Adam Sohn told AP: “It’s not like if you say, ‘Hello Santa’, he’s going to throw inappropriate stuff at you.”

Drunk SantaErm, yes it is, Adam. It’s pretty much exactly like that. When we innocently asked him to eat something, Santa said: “It’s fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else.”

The slapdash job Microsoft did on the supposedly festive chat agent was revealed when Reg reader Iain’s nieces offered Santa some pizza. According to Microsoft the girls were “pushing this thing to make it do things it wasn’t supposed to do”.

Yep, Santabot was taken out behind the sled and shot faster than you can say “Old Yeller.”

Well, you can leave him cookies and milk if you insist, but it’s clear to astute readers what Santa really wants this year!

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Santa’s Pants, by the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre

At last someone has come up with a musical answer to the mystery of how Santa actually gets all those presents to all those good little boys and girls on time and without exploding in a fatal fireball due to the friction of the atmosphere at high speeds.

Transcript coming up in a day or so. I’m not a speedy typist,and my success on translating their Bohemian Rhapsody was mixed, at best.

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Blawg-o-sphere. Cube? Dodecahedron?

Moosehat

I’ve been asked to come up with a short list of some blogs I think are good. Given that I’m outrageously opinionated, this should not be difficult to do. Strangely, athough I normally avoid memes like the plague, this is one assignment I eagerly accepted, given that it contributes to my being on the tee vee. If you, also, can put me on tv, I am perfectly prepared to meme away on command… see how easy I am to get along with?

Some good blogs, and why (and if I left you off, it’s just because I’m saving you for myself, okay? You’re still in the blogroll, silly! No hurt emails plzthxkbai!):

My blogs, of course:

raincoaster
TeenyManolo
Ayyyy
runningthroughrain
The Shebeen Club

  • Defamer, the Hollywood gossip blog. Mark and Seth are probably the best writers in the blogosphere, and they cover a lot of ground, wittily. The commenters are gold.
  • PerezHilton, the #1 blog in the world. Why? He dishes up celebrity gossip nearly 24/7, and he has a compelling (love it or hate it) personality. Blogs without personal identities are completely DOA.
  • DarrenBarefoot, a Canadian abroad. He’s the best example I know of what Nancy White calls a Technology Steward: he isn’t a techie, but he can justify the ways of tech to the rest of the world, sifting through a billion flashes in the pan and pointing out the ones we need to bother with, the ones that will change our lives. Also: really funny.
  • RenalFailure, wild fabrications and outright lies. Hilarious, strange, creative, weird.
  • DamnInteresting just is. DAMN interesting.
  • AliEteraz, a modern Muslim: Islamic reform, Pakistani politics, and changing the world, one post at a time.
  • Jesus’General, the (satirical) home of the glorious conservative revolution.
  • ParaEthos, one of the best intellectual art ‘n philosophy sites out there. Disorienting, enriching, and bizarre.
  • PrettyGoodOnPaper, a highly literary blog that’s not a book blog. Intellectual, challenging, intriguing.
  • WalkingTurcotYards, a remarkable urban photography blog from Montreal’s Turcot Yards, the largest abandoned urban space in the world.
  • Fark. When all else fails and you think the world has turned dull grey, a quick Farking will set you right. The greatest roundup of the bizarre in the intertubes!

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