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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from Cyriak
What prompted me to share this Christmas video? Well, it is disturbing, to be sure. It was created by one of my favorite video animators, Cyriak, but what really set me up to do it was my reaction to the Herman Cain Christmas video immediately below. At least Cyriak is not in it for self-aggrandizement and this video is less disturbing to me than Cain’s.
Watch the video in HD and full-screen for the full horror.
By the way, according to Boing Boing:
the disquieting photo at the end is of English entertainer and spiritualist Noel Edmonds, famed for the bourgeois mediocrity of his Christmas variety shows, etc., and whose head was once compared to “a superfluous extrusion from the main body of an object, such as a surplus knob of butter on a corner of toast.”
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- Festive greetings from Cyriak (boingboing.net)
Shameless
Herman Cain simply will not go away. You can write this down for future reference.
And any purported invocation of Christmas that embarrassingly equates Christmas in America as somehow more important or true than Christmas anywhere is disgusting, for both America and Christianity. As far as I understand Christ, he did not tie his teachings to any political entity, nor did he dole out special treatment for political entities. How could Jesus be anything other than disgusted by Herman Cain?
Related articles
- Herman Cain & Wife Share Heartwarming Christmas Message [Video] (jezebel.com)
- Can’t Make This Sh!t Up Dept: Herman Cain Wants To Be Defense Sec (dvorak.org)
- The Herman Cain Holiday Video With Bible, Flag, And Hand-Holding Wife (alan.com)
Christmas fatigue
Christmas in America, Part 8
Do Americans overdo everything and slip automatically into bad taste?
The answer is yes, especially at Christmas.
(via Andrew Sullivan)
Christmas meets the Internet
A German night before Christmas
This is what Werner Herzog might do if asked to re-interpret “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.” It is actually performed by Ryan Iverson.
Christmas in America, part 7
Lawyers. Here is the Christmas card (holiday card, whatever card) from Mannatt, a large US law firm.
Political quote of the day
As a Christian, no one has to remind me of the importance of Christmas for all of the Christian faith, for all their families, all across America. I don’t need to hear the sanctimonious lectures of Sen. Kyl and [Sen. Jim] DeMint to remind me of what Christmas means.
– Senate majority leader Harry Reid, in response to claims that a session after Christmas was sacrilegious.
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- The Caucus: In Senate, a War of Words Over Christmas (thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)
- GOP Senators Invoke Christmas In Order To Pointlessly Obstruct The START Treaty (huffingtonpost.com)
- Kyl and DeMint Think Baby Jesus Doesn’t Want Them To Vote On START During Christmas (crooksandliars.com)
Christmas in America, part 6
Here is a short lesson on how to keep up with your neighbor’s Christmas display:
(via Sand in the Gears)
Christmas in America, part 5
Here is a rule if you are planning a Christmas pageant: never bring in a live camel.
Christmas in America, part 4
Whatever happened to the “war on Christmas”? It has barely been heard of this year. But Gail Collins turns her eye to the importance of the war.
Well, here’s some good news for a change. The Holiday Parade of Lights in Tulsa, Okla., has been saved!
I know you’ve been worried.
The Tulsa City Council has voted to allow the parade to go forward Saturday night, despite protests against the disappearance of the word “Christmas” from its name.
It’s not entirely clear that the council actually could have stopped it, or even whether the parade ever officially had Christmas in its name. But Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma is outraged.
Inhofe was away from home last December, stuck in Washington trying to kill off health care reform. Now he’s back, and he’s noted a dwindling in the parade’s religious angle. “I just don’t like what’s going on in America today, all over the country, with the aversion some people seem to have toward Christ,” he said in one of his many interviews explaining that he will no longer ride his horse in any holiday event that isn’t named for Christmas.
Go to it, Senator Inhofe! I love this controversy, and only in part because it diverts Oklahoma’s senior senator from his normal day job of trying to convince the world that global warming doesn’t exist.
Related articles
- ‘Christmas’ Loses Out To ‘Holiday’ in Tulsa (liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com)
- Jim Inhofe Is Latest Casualty In ‘War On Christmas’ (huffingtonpost.com)
- Oklahoma ain’t Christian enough for Jim Inhofe (scienceblogs.com)
Christmas in America, part 3
Rudolph is slaughtered in Richmond, Virginia.
And the Baby Jesus now has full GPS functionality.
(both clips via Nothing to do with Abroath)