Category: Holidays

25 April – ANZAC DAY


Here’s to all the diggers.

Using letters, diaries and photographs, The Sunday Age recounts events through the eyes of the diggers who battled on amid despair and death. Jonathan King reports.

APRIL – THE LANDING

The great challenge for the Anzacs on April 25 was to land at Anzac Cove against formidable opposition from the Turks and then dig in. We are now within a mile of the shore and the din has increased… the whole side of the mountains seems to be sending forth tongues of flame and the bullets fairly rain upon us… the water is churned up from rifle fire, machine-guns, Maxims, shrapnel and common shells… seven of the boys in our boat are killed and God knows how many in the others.

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One Easter Egg

A Kosovo Serb peels an Easter egg during an Orthodox Easter service in a fire-gutted Serbian church, burned in 2004 by ethnic Albanians, in Mitrovica, 40 kilometres (30 miles) north of the Kosovo capital Pristina, April 5, 2010.

[More great images, including this one, from here. The history of the Easter Egg may be found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Zappa, The Ink Spots, Iron Butterfly, Rare Earth & Satchmo

Earth Day has come and gone, and dang, I missed it. To make up for it, let’s run with the theme.

It would be different if I didn’t care, but I don’t want to set the world on fire.

Yep. In the Garden of Eden. On drugs.

That’s a rare Rare Earth vid. Now, to find one more video to round out the set… okay. I got it.

One of the prettiest songs ever written. Happy Easter and have a great weekend, folks. Be back here tomorrow for more fun.

The Mowin’ o’ the Green

The algae kinda got out of hand, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day.

[Found here.]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

WooHoo! We’re GREEEEEEN!

[Found here.]

Happy Mardi Gras!

[Image found here.]

Gris gris gumbo yaya to y’all!

Happy Heart-Shaped Plastic Slinky Day

[Image © Bunk Strutts 2011.]

Yeah, like I’m gonna chase after you for copyright violations and stuff.

Bob & Jack

Best to just get ’em likkered up then sit back and listen. Awesome stories.

[Found here.]

Yep. Even your dad’s buddies were jerks.

[Found here.]

Happy New Year 2011!

We wish you all the best, and may we all prosper and stuff in 2011.

Thanks to all our readers who left comments this past year, because nothing’s worse than blogging in a vacuum. Here’s to you!

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