Tag Archives: holiday

A Great Way For Women to Support Movember (Other Than Donating Money of Course)

Today is “Have Sex With a Guy With a Mustache” Day, created (by Maxim magazine?  Oh, sorry – I mean, Asylum magazine) as a way for women to support the men they love as they grow all those oh-so-sexy soup strainers in support of prostate cancer. In related news, I thought about registering for Movember […]

Poppy Politics

A few years ago, I went on record as saying that I rarely to never wore a poppy on Remembrance Day (a personal belief I admitted was the scariest thing I’d ever talked about on my blog because the poppy is so sacrosanct in our culture.) I observed that I tend to avoid the poppy […]

Saturday Snap – Spider-Pace in action on Halloween

Spider-Pace in action on Halloween, originally uploaded by headtale.

Happy Whoreoween? Heteroween? Hitlerween?

Shea and I had physicals last week and while wandering through the mall where our doctor has his office, we popped into one of those “All Halloween All The Time” specialty stores that always appear just before the holidays and are gone soon after. In other years, I had noticed that there were a lot […]

Music Monday – “There’s a high-wire zombie ‘tween the World Trades/A King Kong zombie on the Empire State/But the biggest zombies Tokyo to Rome/The zombies who call the city home”

I first saw Spike Lee’s documentary, “Do It Acapella” back around 1990 or 1991.  In those days, if you saw something on TV, it was gone unless you were watching a channel like MuchMusic that repeated it’s programming on a set (six hour?) rotation throughout the day.  In that case, you could set your VCR […]

Saturday Snap – Trick or treat

Pace is ready for next weekend!

Friday Fun Link – An Even Better UK Xmas #1 Campaign Than Last Year

Last year, folks online showed the growing power of social media by making a fifteen year old, anti-authority Rage Against the Machine song the UK #1 Christmas Number One. This year, another Internet-based group, Cage Against the Machine, has sprung up with an even better idea for what famous song should be propelled to this […]