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And now for a disturbingly accurate quiz result.





You are 'Christmas Time is Here, by Golly!', by Tom
Lehrer. Hmm, you really don't like Christmas,
do you? From the moment they start playing
carols in the shops in October to the
appearance of the first Easter Eggs in the
shops on New Years Eve, the rampant hypocrisy
of the Christmas spirit sets your teeth on
edge. You know just how many family fights
start over Christmas dinner, how many people
are injured in the Boxing Day sales, and how
few people actually find Christmas even
remotely merry. You liked Scrooge far better
before those ghosts got to him, and you are
only doing this quiz because you are bored at
work and anything is better than listening to
everyone else discuss their Christmas shopping.
Still, it is two days off work, which does
count for something... Enjoy the break.


What Christmas Carol are you?
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How did the quiz know that this has been my Christmas "music" antidote for the last three Decembers?

To continue:

"On Christmas day you can't get sore
Your fellow man you must adore
There's time to rob him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty-four!

Relations sparing no expense'll
Send some useless old utensil
Or a matching pen and pencil
[spoken] Just the thing I need. How nice.

It doesn't matter how sincere it
Is nor how heartfelt the spirit
Sentiment will not endear it
What's important is the price

Hark! The Herald Tribune sings
Advertising wondrous things

God rest ye merry merchants
May ye make the Yuletide pay

Angels we have heard on high
Tell us to go out and BUY

So . . .

Let those raucous sleigh bells jingle
Hail our dear old friend Kris Kringle
Driving his reindeer across the sky
Don't stand underneath as they fly by."



God bless us, every one. Especially Tom Lehrer.

But not so much the snow. Those of us who walk everywhere appreciate it somewhat less than everyone else. Even the guy who won't shut up about his late fees because he's too damn lazy to get off his ass and bring his damn movies back on time, like, it's snow, not a BLIZZARD, and we live in Maine, so deal with it.

Would it be wrong, in the strictest sense, to buy a used video for my little stepsister, the mercenary little brat tot who doesn't care what she gets as long as she gets it {okay, she's only six, but still)? Probably. Damn.

I'm actually much more cheerful than this post would so far imply. Probably because a certain person got to see David Bowie in concert, and she's so happy about it that the glee washes over and infuses everyone who reads her blog. =D And who can blame her? *hugs an Anji*

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I rented LXG over the weekend, because it was free, and discovered to my astonishment that it's less than two hours long. It felt SO LONG when I saw it with Caro. Though I maintain that the best thing - hell, the only good thing was Stuart Townsend. Sure, Oscar Wilde is spinning in his grave so fast that there'll be a sonic boom any second now, but at least Dorian Gray got the only actor in the entire mess who bothered to try and give his character a distinctive personality. Or, you know, any personality. Yeah, I'm looking at you, Sean Connery.

Also, I have gotten sucked into the latest meme. Because, frankly, it's short and requires minimal effort on my part. Stolen from so many people that I'm just going to link my entire friends list, although the inserted fact is about someone specific.

I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. I read your fic, or we have something else in common and we chat occasionally. Some of you I hardly know at all. Perhaps you lurk, for whatever reason. But you friended me and I thank you.

But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...she talks to dead rockstars and sometimes they answer her."

I'd love it if every single person who friended me would do this. Yes, even you people who I know really well.

Here's my random fact, which I did post in j_crew_guy's journal: I'm totally and utterly consumed with Crispin Glover at the moment, so naturally a couple nights ago I dreamed about Ethan Hawke. And I've only seen one of his movies.

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