i picked the wrong week to quit...nevermind, i didn't even get that far...

Pharyngula: Objectively anti-Christmas:

Don't watch it if you value your eyes, ears, sense of equilibrium, and sanity. It's Celine Dion doing AC/DC.

so today...

...I'm a senior in high school, about to experience a height of freedom I'd never known before.

This being my feelings now hearing the American Top 40 for December, 1987.

Right now, Heart's "There's The Girl", a pure pop-rock "hit", probably their most polished and popiest non-balled of that era, but I happen to love it for reasons I've never understood.  Go fig.

XM Geeking Goodness and Badness

The Good: we have 9 different means of getting XM Music channels in this house (XM Roady, XM MyFi, DirectTV high-def receiver, DirectTV Normal receiver, and 5 computers capable of playing windows media at a decent clip).

The Bad: if we were to turn all 9 of them on at once, none of them would actually be in sync with each other.

a song.

And the snow covers my footprints, deep regrets and heavy heartbeats.
When you wake you'll never see the spot that I was standing on.

Some things are best forgotten; some are better half-remembered.
I just thought that I might be there on your, on your Christmas night...

--Ian Anderson, First Snow on Brooklyn.

funny thing, holidays...I changed the icon since I first posted it.  Upon thinking about it, I knew who was talking to me...