A bit late, folks, sorry about that. It's always hectic, celebrating Santa's birthday. And I don't know about you, but I can do without the sooty footprints inside and the pig urine all over the place outside, thank you very much.
At any rate, here's some highly interesting information.
- Christmas may be "over" for many of you, but traditionally it would just get started. So I don't feel too out of season by posting yet another example of Kitschmas, courtesy of our friends at Ship of Fools. It's the Pope's cologne, "aristocratic, Old World cologne with surprising freshness."
It's Pius IX's personal formula, handed down over the last 150 years by the family of his captain of the guard. So there you go.
- On this date in 800 Charlemagne was crowned as Holy Roman Emperor. Take that, Jesus. In 1888 Van Gogh cut off part of his ear on this day, and the first illegal Christmas celebrations under Puritan rule in England were held in 1652. (Also from Ship of Fools.)
- If your computer isn't already using its screen saver time to cure cancer or some silly thing, you can sign up for the Jesuspizza project, a worldwide effort to use spare computer power to analyize many thousands of images of pizza to find the one canonical image of Jesus. This is a worthy project, with many admirable goals. According to them, if the canonical Jesuspizza is found, the whole world will willingly and gladly convert to Christianity. Or something like that. Worth a look.
- My daughter received a Hanna Montana doll (Shut Up!) for Christmas. Its switch was set on the "preview" setting, so my daughter asked me to change it. In order to do that, I had to move up the doll's shirt, and it felt really creepy, because the actress who plays Hannah Montana is only 12 or 15 or something. I hope I don't get in trouble for this.
- Ezra's salt-roasted pork tenderloin is very good. Yes, we celebrated the birth of Jesus by eating something he wouldn't. What of it?
