Comments on: A Delightful Holiday Reheat

By: wowgold

wowgold — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:35:13 +0000

I am not a game, I am not a world, I am WOWgame

By: wowgold

wowgold — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:35:13 +0000

I am not a game, I am not a world, I am WOWgame

By: DavidS

DavidS — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:45:45 +0000

I just discovered that Ayn Rand actually wrote a Christmas column one year, for the LA Times in 1962. I can’t find the complete text online anywhere, but this should give you the sense of it:

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says “Merry Christmas”—not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form—by giving presents to one’s friends or by sending them cards in token of remembrance…. The best aspect of Christmas is the aspect usually decried by the mystics: the fact that Christmas has been commercialized…. [I]t stimulates an enormous outpouring of ingenuity in the creation of products devoted to a single purpose: to give men pleasure. And the street decorations put up by department stores and other institutions—the Christmas trees, the winking lights, the glittering colors—provide the city with a spectacular display, which only “commercial greed” could afford to give us. One would have to be terribly depressed to resist the wonderful gaiety of that spectacle. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you.
Ayn Rand, The Secular Meaning of Christmas, reprinted in The Ayn Rand Column 111-12 (P. Schwartz ed. 1991).

By: Steve Brady

Steve Brady — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:00:13 +0000

That Bowie/Bing thing always creeped me out for some reason.

Not as much as that Rand picture, though less explicably.

By: Steve Buchheit

Steve Buchheit — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:58:23 +0000

I miss the “Christmas is the Season of Giving, from the CDC to You.” Only saw it once on ABC.

By: Chang, who gets nothing done without caffeine

Chang, who gets nothing done without caffeine — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:41:38 +0000

Yeah, that song and video just make me teary. Even though Dave was coked to infinity and Bing beat the kids.

By: Chang, who gets nothing done without caffeine

Chang, who gets nothing done without caffeine — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:41:38 +0000

Yeah, that song and video just make me teary. Even though Dave was coked to infinity and Bing beat the kids.

By: John Scalzi

John Scalzi — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:51:56 +0000

Martyn Taylor: You mean this? I think it's winsome, myself.

By: Martyn Taylor

Martyn Taylor — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:42:08 +0000

I am forcibly reminded of Bing Crosby and David Bowie duetting on Little Drummer Boy (round about the time the Thin White Duke moved to Berlin with Iggy and singlehandedly rescued the Bolivian economy as I recall) Heretofore nobody had known Ziggy really wanted to be an all round family entertainer (a term guaranteed to bring a shudder to anyone who can remember when the UK thought that Cliff Richard was a dangerous rocker, daddio)

However disturbing your fiction is, I dare to say that the sight of Der Bingle getting cosy with Aladdin Sane is one to make anyone’s blood run cold.

The Osbornes on Ice? Especially if they lock the mortuary drawer afterwards.

By: Martyn Taylor

Martyn Taylor — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:42:08 +0000

However disturbing your fiction is, I dare to say that the sight of Der Bingle getting cosy with Aladdin Sane is one to make anyone’s blood run cold.

The Osbornes on Ice? Especially if they lock the mortuary drawer afterwards.