Freedom, truth, love, beauty.
If your company’s censor-ware doesn’t block this it would if your company’s censor-ware weren’t shit (aka NSFW).
Enworld
Dammit. Every time I go to Enworld to find an obscure answer to a simple Dungeons and Dragons question, I get sucked into four hours of entrancing reading but zero productivity.
All Men Watch Porn
“Scientists at the University of Montreal launched a search for men who had never looked at pornography - but couldn’t find any.”
After you’ve checked out the previously mentioned Holiday Sampler, head on over to the Mythos Market and check out their Unbearably Scary Solstice Combo.
Ah, who doesn’t love the holiday classics like “Freddy the Red Brained Mi-Go”, “Oh Come All Ye Olde Ones”, and—my personal favorite—“Silent Night, Blasphemous Night”.
(via Tor)
The 2009 edition of the Suburban Sprawl Holiday Sampler has been unleashed. I think it’s the best yet.
If you’re not hip to the sampler, every year the Suburban Sprawl record label collects a bunch of holiday-themed songs and releases them as a free download. I’d call the mix subversive if anything can still be subversive in this era. Does “eclectic” still work?
Regardless of labels, these are definitely not you’re standard Christmas catalog. In fact, the album would probably have a “Parental Advisory” sticker if it were sold in stores because many of these tracks are not fit for little ears.
What kind of Christmas song is unfit for children? Download the album and find out!
If You Have a Kid but Are Not Keeping Up With Kid’s Music, You’re Doing It Wrong.
Kid’s music, at it’s best, is as engaging and fun as adult music but directly engages age appropriate subjects. As great as The Clash’s music is, pre-teens shouldn’t have to understand the politics and music of the late 70s and early 80s to really get the music on the trip to daycare/school/grandma’s house.
NPR’s list of favorite kids music from 2009 is up. Good stuff all, but I’m particularly fond of They Might Be Giant’s work in the genre.
For older stuff, you absolutely have to start with Raffi’s first two albums. Singable Songs for the Very Young and More Singable Songs are great works.
And, for what it’s worth, Elizabeth’s favorite for quite some time has been Laurie Berkner’s Whaddaya Think of That.
Holiday Crackers
Should you find yourself in the cracker aisle this season wondering what is what, remember this: Town House are saltines added to butter, but Club are butter added to saltines.
Also: Ritz are cheap ripoffs of Town House.
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money’s gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
— From “Once in a Lifetime” by Talking Heads from the album Remain in Light
“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau