The Shattered Prayer

Well it turns out I did get the heinous stomach flu, but my strange regenerative powers transformed it into something less heinous. This afternoon, I ran a fever for around two hours, and felt mildly queasy, then it went away.
I feel slightly dizzy right now, but thats from the margaritas I had while out […]

…. how about Acapulco?
Seems our Tahitimas celebrations always take a turn for the Mexican. Perhaps we should call it Tijuanamas. But Tahitimas it is, and who says we can’t celebrate Tahitimas Mexican-style.
I had a great time with R the P, Mojo, and A the Girl (for the short time that I got to […]

Cuz I’m hungry. There’s no food in the house other than xmas food and thats all for xmas. Today, we starve.  We sit around, hollow-eyed and groaning, mouths watering to the aroma of cooking food. Food we are forbidden, by law, to eat until tomorrow. My kingdom for a hamburger. Not that my kingdom would […]

Well, he’s obviously somebody’s friend, if the picture is any indication.
In the season of baby Jesus, lets not forget that big Jesus has his eye (and his hand) on our children, and not in a good way. Don’t believe me? Just pop over to the My Friend website and have a looksee for yourself. […]

I suffer from arthritis in my feet, and my right ankle has been in absolute agony the past couple of days. Yesterday I mentioned this to my mother and she said, “Of course it has - thats because its about to rain”.
And here it is raining.
Yikes! I feel like I should be in […]

…and other Tahitimas traditions.
I was thinking about traditions that we should keep for Tahitimas. We have our new traditions, like luaus and drive-by shootings of plaster wise-men in nativity scenes, but what about some of the time-honoured traditions of the holiday season?
I’m good with the Yule-log. Rolling a burning log down a hill is one […]

I love it. Neil Gaiman got me hooked on the Library Thing Unsuggestor, which rather than suggesting books based on the books you own, tells you what books you are unlikely to enjoy based on what you’ve read. For instance, my favourite work of modern literature is 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia […]

Yes thats right, I’ve been showing my mother how to use eBay to buy christmas presents. Maybe that should be my new career move - helping old ladies shop online.
“Oh look at that pink-ice ring”, she says, while I fight to hold on to my lunch, “ain’t that nice. This is better than QVC.”
And […]

Okay, so we don’t actually have any Tahitimas songs yet, but we’re working on it. Our propagandist can double as our official Tahitimas songwriter. Bas?
But since we don’t yet have any Tahitimas music, I suppose I’ll have to do the top ten christmas songs. I utterly despise christmas music. Next to Unitarian Hymns (how […]

Silent nightHoly nightAll is calmall is bright‘Round yon virgin….
When I was little, I didn’t know that the words round yon virgin mean around that virgin over there. I thought the words round and yon were adjectives describing the virgin’s appearance. I knew what round meant, and it was understandable that the virgin was round, having […]

See the fundies are screaming that there’s a war on christmas, and the bleeding hearts are screaming back that, no, on the contrary, we’re just respecting diversity. Well goddammit all to hell, I want a war. I mean finally, something decent to start a war over - and the only casualties are a few plaster […]

“And remember, Jesus is the reason for the season”. These are the words growled ferociously by a woman who sits surrounded by her family in a local television ad for some sort of clothing store.
Coming out of Kroger, having bought the obligatory bag of cat-food, the Salvation Army bell-ringer shouts a defiant, “Merry Christmas!”. […]

This is another one of those stories that begins with the line “Richard and I were on acid one night”. As I’ve stated before, many of our stories begin that way. That doesn’t mean we in any way advocate or condone the use of illegal recreational pharmaceuticals. It doesn’t mean we don’t, but it doesn’t […]