Gezundheit!
(Is it bad to say I thought this was a mic and couldn’t figure out why the dog was cringing?)
Category Archives: Religion
Christmas Jesus Dress-Up!
Note current version is Grinch Jesus, not Wizard of Oz Jesus.
Different holiday entirely!
Wow, this has got to be the bestest online toy ever invented for all your morbid theist gifting needs: the dress-up virtual Christmas crucified Jesus doll; surely just the thing for the loner who’s deep into self-flagellation, wouldn’t you say? It has that whole happy Christmas vibe, with an Eastery Jesus to dress up. Why, there’s even a snarling Grinch costume! Hours of fun for the whole dysfunctional family!
In related news, this woman has a solution to the fact that her Nativity Scene Jesus keeps going missing:
“I think I’ll nail it down.”
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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?
The Azathoth tree
The Chihuly tree
The Squid tree
and the latest entry:
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!
[odeo= http://odeo.com/audio/3525903/view%5D
Blue Solstice
lyrics, also, over the jump
Don’t shoot me, Santa
Our first Christmas YouTube of the year! And what a heartwarming one it is, too: the Killers, performing a country-tinged “Don’t Shoot Me, Santa.”
“Don’t Shoot Me Santa” may be more “Bad Santa” than “Silent Night,” but what makes this single especially heart-warming is that all the proceeds of the song will go to Bono’s (RED) campaign, which raises money for AIDS in Africa. The single will be available for download through iTunes on World AIDS Day, December 1.
Why, this instant classic would bring a tear to the eye of the most wizened, shriveled heart, and is certainly worthy of taking its place beside such examples of the form as the 12 Days of Bollywood Christmas, A Charlie Brown Kwanzaa, Christmas on Acid, etc!
stolen from Nag on the Lake
Lyrics over the jump
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Teddy Teacher Gillian Gibbons Finally Freed!
(God, I love alliteration!)
Controversial expat British teacher Gillian Gibbons, who was jailed in Khartoum for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear “Muhammad,” is to be freed, having been granted a presidential pardon.
The Guardian has the hairy details:
The breakthrough came after a meeting between two British Muslim peers, Lord Nazir Ahmed and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, with Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir.
Lord Ahmed said al-Bashir had agreed to pardon the teacher.
Asked whether Gibbons had been pardoned, a presidential adviser told Reuters: “Definitely, yes.”…
Reacting to the news, Khalid al-Mubarak, of the Sudanese embassy in London, said: “Congratulations. I am overjoyed.
“She is a teacher who went to teach our children English and she has helped a great deal and I am very grateful. What has happened was a cultural misunderstanding, a minor one, and I hope she, her family and the British people won’t be affected by what has happened.
There is, at this time, no word on whether the Americans now intend to place her in custody for referring to the problematic plush in question as a Teddy Bear.
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