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Happy New Year's Eve!

More cheer from a bottle, grabbed from Flickr.

Dizzy as a Goose

Another euphemism for drunkiness. What's worse than being dizzy as a goose? Riding a dizzy goose through the French countryside with a gaggle of your friends (some of whom did not get the memo and are, in fact, riding ducks) wearing little cotton frocks or nothing at all. It's enough to make you turn to drink.

Seeing Pink Elephants

1963 Maidenform Bra Ad for sale on ebay

Drunk As a Boiled Owl

It's never too early to learn a few new phrases to describe your friends and neighbors on New Year's Eve. Here, from the Drunktionary*, is "Drunk as a boiled owl".

*I'd link to it, but it's a freakin' Tripod page with freakin' Tripod pop-ups. Google at your own risk.

Happy Boxing Day!

The 26th of December, when my thoughts turn to pugilistic kangaroos.

Boxing Kangaroo Limoges box for sale on ebay

Happy Christmas!

From a gallery of Soviet Christmas cards, via Drawn!

Green Christmas

Watercolor, acrylic, Photoshop

Inspired by the illustrations in this book.

Dogs in the Manger

Not as cool as the All-Devil Nativity Scene I saw in Tijuana a few years ago, but not bad. You can buy the dogs in the manger here (and some cats, too). It's not much of a stretch to imagine the caganers for these sets.

Other interesting interpretations of Nativity Scenes include sets made of sand and human hair and bears and robots and toys and ice and granite and cookies and machine parts and yarn and rubber ducks and chickens.

Happy Solstice!

Cancer: It's what's for Christmas

Another vintage ad for sale on ebay.