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martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 4:32 pm: | |
Time to find some links in keeping with the annual feeding frenzy downtown. Like this one:
http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/sacred_hea rt_elvis.html |
dave
Username: dave
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 4:40 pm: | |
Martin, that is a find right there...an internet treasure. I don't know if we can compete with an opener like that... |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 4:43 pm: | |
Dave, I'm sure (I fear) there's vast cyber-prairies of the stuff out there, just waiting for the combine harvester of cut'n'paste. Or something.
Anyway, the tat starts here. |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 4:51 pm: | |
Let us not forget:
http://www.amazon.com/Letters-Christmas-Revised-J- R-R-Tolkien/dp/061800937X
As it happens, ahem, I own a copy. |
dave
Username: dave
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 5:12 pm: | |
Just warming up:
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewpoetry.asp?Aut horID=5240&id=171571 |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 5:39 pm: | |
Oh and there's this. But it's actually very good. Along with Wout Steenhuis & the Kontiki's Hawaiian Xmas and Ninki V's Xmas EP, this is the sound of Xmas at iotacism Towers:
http://tinyurl.com/yb8rho |
dave
Username: dave
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 5:46 pm: | |
Low! If only that were the sound of Xmas in more places... |
dave
Username: dave
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 5:49 pm: | |
How do you even compare low to something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Merry-Axemas-Various-Artists /dp/B000002BP3
Note that customers who bought this also bought "Santamental". Oh dear. |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 6:03 pm: | |
Wow! Looks essential!
*counts pennies*
I did a very doomy version of "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" a few years back, I'm tempted to have a second crack at that one this year. |
alex
Username: alex
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 6:38 pm: | |
This is a perennial favourite:
http://tinyurl.com/ydfz72
And all these look good:
http://www.bizarrerecords.com/galleries/xmas/xmas. html |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 07, 2006 - 10:40 am: | |
"Deer horns, masks with battery-powered red eyes, huge fangs, bushy coats of sheep's fur, and brandishing birchwood rods..."
- Now you're talking!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061206/od_uk_nm/oukoe _uk_austria_christmas_devil |
dave
Username: dave
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 07, 2006 - 5:09 pm: | |
Krampus needs to take a jog through this joint:
http://tmcm.livejournal.com/?skip=1
Christmas shoppers... |
dave
Username: dave
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 07, 2006 - 7:43 pm: | |
The Shrander does Xmas:
http://thumbs.photo.net/photo/3585029-sm.jpg |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 9:48 am: | |
Dave: Too spooky by half!
If you're really stuck for gifts, though, this is a great fun site:
http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/ |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 10:24 am: | |
But, hey - deck the halls, etc.
http://x-entertainment.com/updates/2006/12/08/char lie-browns-christmas-tree-is-for-sale/ |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 10:31 am: | |
This could catch on, too:
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.h tml?id=235722b6-d4d7-48fc-b73a-a24dff1f4792&k=7774 4 |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 10:43 am: | |
"The phoney war on Christmas"
http://tinyurl.com/y8ufnb |
dave
Username: dave
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 3:22 pm: | |
Crucified Santa! Why didn't I think of that?
Anyway, here's some good clean fun:
http://scottsmind.com/games/evil-santa/
I played with this for longer than I'd like to admit yesterday... |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 3:46 pm: | |
*Brilliant!* |
dave
Username: dave
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 4:53 pm: | |
I know, right! Here at work, everyone is decorating the office doors for Christmas. Not me though. I just printed a really grisly Evil Santa and taped it to my chair. |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 6:57 pm: | |
It's not hugely Xmassy at the library at the moment. But there's an Xmas tree, which is about my height, just next to the counter. Each time I walk past it I have to control this urge to fling myself at it bodily.
It might be that it looks at me funny. |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 10:01 am: | |
It's a rainy Monday in the city of loose paving stones: you get up half an hour earlier because the train timetables have changed, but you needn't have bothered - everything's running late through the flooded fields; the carriages are packed with wet-cod commuters like yourself, who reek of depleted serotonin; and as you dodge the 50-something empty bottle expert warbling "It Must Be The Gypsy in My Heart" outside your local Barclays, you found your bank card has somehow snapped in two, leaving you with precisely 3 quid in your pocket.
Seasons bl**dy greetings to you too, madam. |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 10:34 am: | |
That's like so December, isn't it? The moral of this story is: don't bother trying, you're going to be late anyway. Maybe this is the opening of the Pure Rant thread. I'll tell y'all about my ongoing problem with O2 when I get a minute! |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 10:49 am: | |
Never mind - you could always cheer yourself up by buying yourself a special wee gift:
http://tinyurl.com/y3owaz |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 10:57 am: | |
Yeah, one of my colleagues was imprisoned by him. I'd imagine there would have been a few bottles opened in his household over the weekend. |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 1:27 pm: | |
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iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 2:40 pm: | |
Sergio didn't like him either. |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 2:43 pm: | |
Sorry: this is the Pure Rant thread, isn't it?
Certainly made me feel better, cutting and pasting all that!
Now: on with the show ... |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 3:14 pm: | |
Well if you think Pinochet is bad: bloody O2 set me up for a £70 a month tariff back in August instead of the cheaper £25 leisure tariff, and they *still* haven't managed to sort it out. Every fucking month, I phone them up and they say, "oh I'm very sorry, Mr Krishna! This really should have been sorted out. We'll refer this to x dept and it should be changed by the time you get the next bill." And guess what happens when the bill arrives? Yes, nothing has changed.
Okay, they "credit" me the difference over and over again, time after time. But it's that cocking Thunderclap Newman muzak and having to speak to apologetic customer services staff.
I knew that buying a mobile would turn me into a sad, boring fucker! |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 3:43 pm: | |
"Something in the Air," eh? Adding insult to injury.
(Actually, TN's follow-up, "Accidents," is one of my all-time favourite songs - I still wonder why it wasn't re-released to sell a million at the height of Britpop).
But, be fair: if you were Victor Jara, which would you prefer - a lousy phone company or al fresco mutilation? Speaking personally, two hands and lousy phone account is infinitely preferable to The Stadium, por favor ... |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 4:06 pm: | |
There really is nothing noble about complaining about mobile phone accounts, is there? I used to listen to people whinging or triumphing at their gains and losses in the portable telecoms arena, back in the days when I still had communications integrity, and now I've turned into one of *them*.
No, worse! I'm having a meta-whinge about my cellular post-lapsarian state. |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 5:01 pm: | |
You think you've got problems? Pah!
>The vision began: I saw a small town business street, and my vantage-point was as if i were standing in the middle of the street looking down along it. i could see the stores on each side, running for blocks.
>Suddenly I saw two "holes" open in the air, each hole was about ten feet across, one was on the ground, the other was in the sky.
>the ground hole seemed to be some kind of window looking downwards. Down in the distance i saw what looked to be water and there were "whale-like" creatures swimming around.
>Then I heard the Voice!! He spoke gravely about these "whales". i was then told that i was peering down to about 150 to 200 miles below the surface of the earth and these large critters were Spirit critters that live 100 to 300 miles below the surface of the earth. they swim through near-molten rock as if it were water. They would be nearly invisible to us here, as 90% of their body vibration is in the non-material realms.<<
Of course it is! Just take a seat, and the doctor will see you shortly.
More things that will never happen on the site below, kids. Log on, scroll down:
http://www.prophecies.us/
"Predictions for Furture Land of Asia" (sic) seems particularly obtuse, and could well be the result of too much Lovecraft and half a bottle of brandy - but I'm only guessing. |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 6:31 pm: | |
I like his Message to the Young. Aren't the Young lucky!
A Message To Young People.
I was born in 1954. When I was old enough to start comprehending the world around me, things going on in the world were quite disconcerting. The lakes and rivers were polluted. The skies were full of smog. We were right in the middle of the Cold War, a time when the United States and the Soviet Union were ready, at a moments notice, to launch a full fledged nuclear attack on each other.
By the time I reached my teens, it seemed that the world could not possibly last much longer. I started reading predictions and prophecy of what the future would hold. It didn't look good. The Bible, Edgar Cayce, Jeanne Dixon and other prophets of the day warned that the end was very near. Judging by the evidence around me, as far as I was concerned, they were right. All of the signs were there. What was the point, I thought, to set goals for my life, or even to go to college? It would all be a waste of time!
So..... That's how I lived my life. Now in my late forty's, I really haven't accomplished a heck of a lot, while in the world around me great strides have been made in solving the problems that I grew up with.
My message to you is that it's alright to take prophecies and predictions seriously, and to be aware that there may be dark days ahead, but don't let it rule your life. The world may be massively changed, or may even end sometime soon, but no one really knows if or when or how or what will happen. Set and achieve goals. Do your best at whatever you do. Enjoy your family and your friends and live a good life. After all, life is not about the world. It's about you.
Glen, Webmaster
Prophecies.us |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 10:04 am: | |
Peculiar: I'm almost his age, but even as a child I never took this stuff seriously for a second. Perhaps it was something to do with them having come through real horrors in the war, but similar nonsense always made my parents come out with a common sense song from the '30s: "What's to do about it? Let's put out the lights and go to sleep."
But - worra wally! After you with the Jamesons, please ... |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 10:52 am: | |
He may well support this site, too:
http://johnmurraypenfold.20m.com/stonehenge.htm
"Were these objects charmed alive, they could easily topple onto us and crush us to death in order to please their witch mistresses in an orgy of blood-letting."
I blame the parents. |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 21, 2006 - 9:56 am: | |
Blackmore's Night play Christmas Eve acoustic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGOTxBVXCrs
It's okay, you don't have to thank me. |
alex
Username: alex
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 21, 2006 - 1:48 pm: | |
That Penfold site: comedy surely? It has to be..it has to be...
And to follow that with Blackmore - you guys are trying to drive me mad, aren't you? |
dave
Username: dave
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 6:26 pm: | |
Holy crap, it's almost Christmas. Again.
I can't beleive it's been a year since we posted this older stuff up there in the thread. Specifically, I re-googled the Evil Santa Generator earlier today and I thought to myself "No way...it couldn't have been a year ago that I posted that at Empty Space". But it really has. Seems to have just flown right by. |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 - 11:54 am: | |
It is, again.
A fine season of multi-fractal fun and contentment to you all! |
arturo
Username: arturo
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, December 23, 2007 - 6:02 pm: | |
Best whises to everybody! |
dan
Username: dan
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 24, 2007 - 4:58 pm: | |
Have a good 'un everyone. I'll be in the radio studio from 10am to midday, with my family, unwrapping presents & broadcasting to the nation (well, Sheffield at least). If you like, you can listen to us via www.sheffieldlive.org while you stuff your bird / roast your nuts. |
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