32 thoughts on “Feels Like Christmas”

  1. 54 degrees in KY at 5:30 in the morning don’t feel like christmas to me!

    but interesting choice of music, craig

  2. thank you, jack and craig, for letting us know.  june was not too long after his last message to us if i remember right.

    I’ve been looking for Flatus’s obituary but have never seen it.
    But I did just find this. From June 17, 2021. probate court, public notice
    Estate: CLIFFORD TAPPEN DONLEY 21ES4000874
    Personal Representative: SUSAN Y. KEY

    Clifford Donley is his name and Susan Key is his daughter.
    Jack

     

  3. for flatus

    poem by e.e. cummings put to music by eric whitacre

    little tree
    little silent Christmas tree
    you are so little
    you are more like a flower

    who found you in the green forest
    and were you very sorry to come away?
    see i will comfort you
    because you smell so sweetly

    i will kiss your cool bark
    and hug you safe and right
    just as your mother would,
    only don’t be afraid

    look the spangles
    that sleep all the year in a dark box
    dreaming of being taken out and allowed to shine,
    the balls the chains red and gold the fluffy threads,

    put up your little arms
    and i’ll give them all to you to hold
    every finger shall have its ring
    and there won’t be a single place dark or unhappy

    then when you’re quite dressed
    you’ll stand in the window for everyone to see
    and how they’ll stare!
    oh but you’ll be very proud

    and my little sister and I will take hands
    and looking up at our beautiful tree
    we’ll dance and sing
    “Noel Noel”

  5. now, on to cook the christmas goose. the mince meat pie already out of the oven ready for the bird and the feast that follows later in the day

    See the source image

  7. May you all have the happiest of holidays and should you not return until after Janus looks both ways, may the New Year be joyful and kind to you and yours.

     

  10. If Christmas feels like 50 degrees and rain it definitely feels like Christmas. But weather aside it does feel like Christmas. Me, Mrs P & LP hanging and cooking. This year, leg-o-land. Haven’t decided between roasting and smoking but pepper, garlic and mint will be featured prominently in the flavor spectrum. 
    Merry Christmas everyone. Enjoy your family. 

  12. Last tweet of Flatus Ohlfahrt:

    Flatus Ohlfahrt
     Dec 11, 2020

     

    And Tucker is a miserable POS. His Mom must shudder that he ignores every bit of her goodhearted talent in making his presentations.

  15. Carlson is the human equivalent of a Swanson Salisbury Steak TV Dinner.  
    We had a pretty rough time of it when my mother discovered those things. Fortunately it was just a phase.

  17. 70°……..it’s as if the gods know how I hate working in the cold.
    Feels like they’re warming up this place just for me. Sorry bout that, Miami.

  18. JAMES WEBB!—the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has finally launched—100x more powerful than Hubble—is finally enroute to Lagrange Pointe 2 at ~1.5 million km from Earth globe europe-africa & operate at -230 C. The #JamesWebb will change our understanding of the universe!

  22. yeah…  as someone who was the executor of my mother’s estate…  you don’t do probate court unless the owner of the estate has passed away.  Flatus…  thank you for being here for all those years…   miss ya bud!
     
    We are having an ice storm…  but will be going to Rick’s brother’s house soon…  it’s only a 3-4 minute drive.
     
    Merry, merry everyone!

  23. I’d like to find the old SNL skit with the gang caroling in their Christmas sweaters…….The carol was “Let’s Kill Gary Gilmore for Christmas”. Can only find it in a compilation video of several other skits generally considered to be “in bad taste”. 

  26. Wonder how many times little zimmerman and his friends sang that one up there in those cold minnesotar wintners.

    “Merry or not, here I come.”
    –Bongo Seville

  28. Merry Christmas to all of you and yours.
    Wishing eternal peace to Flatus.
    You have been missed.

  29. Well today started out fairly eventfully. Mrs P sliced her left pinky when a ceramic bowl fell and broke and she tried to catch it. ER visit then leg-o-lamb later and we’re cruising as she binges on Sex and the City. The lamb was delicious. 
    I’m so sorry to hear of Flatus’ passing. I really liked and respected him. This trailhand friends dying shit is no fun. 

  31. well, this is quite weird…….True Crime network showing early fifties  episodes of “Dragnet” with Joe Friday and his first partner. The theme song has not developed yet……sounds like they took the theme from these shows and just turned it around later to the one everyone recognizes.

    wow…..they just found marijuana in 1952. Two roaches in a matchbox. Dunn da Dunt-Dunt

    haha they bustin’ on these kids for using the marijuana and the interrogation rooms are FULL of smoke from the cigarettes they smokin’

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