8 posts tagged “christmas”
This is the card I sent to my coworkers this year. It was created by the phenomenal Dyna Moe. Please visit her site and hire her. Because she is amazing.
The Lovely (and Pregnant) Virginia and I got this handsome specimen at the tree lot yesterday. Here's what I remember most tree lots looking like when I was growing up in Minnesota:
Here's what ours looked like yesterday:
Because I am a festive kinda guy.
PS Someone tell our baby to hurry up, please.
Also see the above picture of my attractive co-workers.
Hey, it was Thanksgiving last Thursday. The Lovely Virginia's sister, Meg D., joined us out here in crazytown as we frolicked in the non-toxic soap substance at The Grove.
She's due in less than three weeks.
That's. Amazing.
And slightly terrifying.
Nothing's sadder than a disposed-of Meativity on a snowless Minnesota Christmas morning... Which even the squirrels don't seem interested in.
No doubt some of you recall the beauty of this Thanksgiving's Meat Turkey.
In celebration of Christmas, my lovely wife's family decided to step it up a notch. We've spent the last hour or so crafting what I believe to be a beautiful and complex homage to the holiday. I present you with:
The Meativity.
(More photos available here and here. Apparently, my crappy cellphone camera is not the only machine that can capture photos of magical artistic creations.)
Merry Christmas, friends!
It pains me to admit it, but this is a pretty great SNL effort.
It has naughty words, FYI.
I'm trying to get back to blogging here more (thanks mostly to the incessant cajoling of my sibling-laws over Thanksgiving), so I thought I'd try another one of my famous Top 3 lists (the other two are here and here). Forgive me for this list being somewhat mundane. I'm just in the mood.
Top 3 Favorite Christmas Movies
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It's A Wonderful Life. I don't care if it's cliché; it's a damn good movie. Jimmy Stewart, in all his stammering glory, was freaking good. He was just good. And if you don't find yourself at all emotionally affected when Harry raises his glass and toasts, "to my big brother George, the richest man in town," you might be made of plastic. I watched it again with my lovely wife last night, and it's just really, really good.
- Scrooged. Yes, Bill Murray has a mullet. Yes, Bobcat Goldthwait is in it. But it's still funny. Carol Kane as the Ghost of Christmas Present is hi-larious. And I have stolen every bit of sarcastic humor I overuse today directly from Murray in this movie.
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. I think this one was shot just before Chevy Chase officially lost "the funny." And Randy Quaid is so, so funny. But you know that, because you've seen this movie a thousand times. And even though you think Quaid is good in this one, you still probably haven't watched Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure. And that's because you'd rather poke out your eyeballs than rent it and have an experience similar to the one you had at the hands of Vegas Vacation, right? Thought so. Me too.
Runners-up: The Muppet Christmas Carol, A Christmas Story, and Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.
It has been a million years since I blogged. I have no life. I used to write stuff because I was stuck at a computer all day. Now I sit at home and do nothing worthy of writing about.... Except when my lovely wife and I decide to buy a tiny tree and decorate the crap out of it. Then we watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation with PJ and I'm reminded of a song I like (when Clark is watching his old home movies).
Good tune, no? And if you're thinking my wife and I are only festive at Christmastime, you are sorely mistaken. Check out this mad Halloween sign we posted:
Anyway, maybe some wacky stuff will start happening in my life so I can have more to write about. Until then, I will wish I was holding my niece.
