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:


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

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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

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  4. @ Will M

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

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  5. "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

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  6. 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)

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