We’ll let you click on these for yourselves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLV0lI-5EBg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2EahleBOzg&NR=1
Meanwhile here’s one that’s a little more appropriate:
Category: Holidays
Now More Than Ever, The New and Improved Cutting Edge Wave of the Future Tacky Raccoons Store is Officially Open!
This is blogwhoring at its worst, but it’s blogwhoring in the good sense of the word, and just in time for the Holidays. A simple click on either image will take you to the Official Cutting Edge Wave of the Future New and Improved Now More Than Ever Tacky Raccoons Store for almost all your clothing and caffeine container needs. After all, it’s for the children, and the awesome design is awesome.
Easter
“And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; / And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, / And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.”
[Interior view of the tower of Le Corbusier’s Notre Dame du Haut chapel here.]
[Update– Sorry about the earthquake today. I’ll choose my biblical passages more carefully from now on. We felt it at about 3:45PM PST as a long roller that lasted for over a minute, kinda like being on a boat on a calm sea. No damage here. –Bunk]
April Fools Day
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The Feasts of St. Joseph
Earlier today (19 March 2010), Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi invoked a prayer to St. Joseph for help in passing the Health Care debacle. Not being Catholic, I couldn’t remember who he was the patron saint of besides children’s aspirin, so I decided to check Wikipuddlia.
Here’s the entry for St. Joseph:
Further down, under Sainthood, we find this:
Here’s the pertinent paragraph enlarged.
Now click on that image. It’s on Wikipedia, so it’s got to be true… heh. My initial reaction was that some wag edited the Wiki for fun, BUT WAIT! IT’S TRUE!
From The Washington Times:
Seeking to shore up support for her embattled health bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today announced it was the feast of Saint Joseph the Worker, adding “We pray to Saint Joseph to benefit the workers of America which is what our health bill would do.”
Problem is, March 19 is indeed the feast day of Saint Joseph, foster-father of Jesus. But the actual feast of St. Joseph the Worker (same man, two ways of commemorating him) comes in six weeks. Set for May 1, it was introduced by Pope Pius XII in 1955 to counteract May Day, the high holiday for communist and socialist workers.
So, Wikipedia is right, Nancy blew it twice in one swell foop, and Joe Biden’s disease is contagious.
[Crossposted here.]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Nice version of Nell Flaherty’s Drake. Here’s Tommy Makem & the Clancy Brothers’ version.
[Related post with words here.]
Fat Tuesday
I like these guys, but there’s just too damn many of them.
(Barranquilla, Colombia)
If I were younger and single, I’d hang out with her. She’s fun.
(Barranquilla, Colombia)
The Wave: Here’s how they do it in Ovar, Portugal.
Rio de Janeiro has a large population of diminutive people, and they built a floating recliner just for Jennifer Lopez. She’s a goddess down there.
[Hundreds of awesome photos of Carnival from around the world, starting *ahem* here.]
Happy Tet, Y’all!
How do’ folks, and Happy VietNamese New Year!
Little Saigon, in Westminster California, comprises the largest population of VietNamese ex-patriots of anywhere in the world. The community was founded by those who escaped the communist invasion that followed the fall of Saigon in 1975.
[More photos after the break.]
Another great gift idea – Dolphin Laughs
World of Warcraft – Finnish Edition
We really don’t know what’s going on here, but something tells us that it has a Great Purpose.
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 