Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Seasonal Salutations

To all my readers, best wishes of the holiday season, including but not limited to Christmas,  Hanukkah, Solstice, Saturnalia, Kwanzaa and Festivus. If you're not feeling especially joyful this year, or if forced gaiety has never been your style, then I hope you'll endure the most grimly satisfying or the least-bad Bah Humbug ever!

Maybe, just maybe, world peace will actually get a chance in our lifetimes. 




6 comments:

Jay–Ottawa said...


Listening to those accents takes me back in time and place to the Boston-Philly cawridoohr. Merry Christmas, everybody.

Zuzu said...

Hopefully, finally, God willing, we will all wake up tomorrow morning without being subjected to "the Christmas music" and can return our gifts in peace.

Will said...

How about just one more song? I'm thinkin' this little ditty from 1977 is right up our alley here at Sardonicky. Merry Christmas, everyone!

https://youtu.be/fPPCPqDINEk

Jay–Ottawa said...


@ Will M

Most excellent class-conscious song. Brings out the true spirit of Christmas IMHO, whether one leans religious or secular.

Erik Roth said...


"Trump's holiday menu: handouts for billionaires, hunger for the poor —
Republicans defend cuts to food stamps by saying that keeping people hungry will make them work harder. But we know this is just about cruelty."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/24/food-stamps-billionaires-nutrition-assistance-bernie-sanders-rashida-tlaib

24 Dec 2019 ~ by Bernie Sanders & Rashida Tlaib

Erik Roth said...

A song for 2020 --

George Harrison ~ "Beware Of Darkness"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LrxYds2UNE

Watch out now, take care
Beware of falling swingers
Dropping all around you
The pain that often mingles
In your fingertips
Beware of darkness

Watch out now, take care
Beware of the thoughts that linger
Winding up inside your head
The hopelessness around you
In the dead of night

Beware of sadness
It can hit you
It can hurt you
Make you sore and what is more
That is not what you are here for

Watch out now, take care
Beware of soft shoe shufflers
Dancing down the sidewalks
As each unconscious sufferer
Wanders aimlessly
Beware of Maya

Watch out now, take care
Beware of greedy leaders
They take you where you should not go
While Weeping Atlas Cedars
They just want to grow, grow and grow
Beware of darkness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBMCxD5Q2O8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beware_of_ABKCO!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beware_of_Darkness_(song)