Andrew Sullivan’s filler-in-ers have been posting links to “depressing Christmas songs,” and of course how can you do that without Tom Waits?
So the other day I was poking around Amazon, looking for Christmas presents for my peeps and bopeeps, and came across Adam Lambert’s new album, which I would never buy. The album cover made me giggle, so I sent a link to my boy Brian:
(I believe the comment I made was, “In a related story, Adam Lambert is gay.” This was in bad taste, not least because I know a lot of gay men, and not one of them dresses like a chorus member from Xanadu The Musical.)
Brian, who is deft with The Photoshop, immediately produced this, which might be the greatest thing since the domestication of the pig:
I may actually end up having to record a bunch of Adam Lambert covers so I can release an album with this cover.
Here’s a nice story about the emerging awesomeness of my new ‘hood:
A growing group of residents and business owners – new and old – wants to uncover Claymont’s built-in beauty, revive its flagging spirit and improve its sagging property values.
The goal is daunting, but the coalition has not recoiled from the fact that its community needs a lot of work – inside and out.
“If you can’t handle honesty, you can’t live in Claymont,” said Ellie Kwick, who has lived there all of her 63 years.
It’s the most craziest tiiiiiiime of the yeeeeeear! Also: It’s gettin’, it’s gettin’, it’s gettin’ kinda hectic. We’re trying to take the kids to as much cool holiday stuff as possible, so Saturday we dragged both urchins and both of Sarah’s parents to the Auburn Heights Preserve, which I honestly had never even heard of despite living in Delaware for 30 years. They have 1/8-scale steam-powered trains to sit on and ride around (they are not what I would describe as “Pullman-car comfortable,” but still fun), and what is probably the largest collection of steam-powered Stanley automobiles around. Did I take pictures? You bet your sweet patoot.
Saturday night, I managed to make it to the fall Ychromes concert. The show was pretty damned fine; good arrangements, fantastic soloists, and a few nice touches. I’m still hoping to see the 2nd act video turn up on Youtube, because it was so funny I peed in my pants just a little bit. They also did a really fantastic tribute to Colin Hines, alumnus #54, who sadly passed away last week of complications from leukemia. (I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Cancer, you are a serious douche. Please stop killing people.) And in the 4 days between Colin’s passing and the concert, some of our smarter members managed to pull together the Colin Hines Memorial Scholarship Fund, and raised $3000 to be split between the Chromes, and Leukemia research. It was a pretty memorable evening.
Did I take pictures? Of course I did.
I even managed to spend some time at Klondike Kate’s without drinking anything (a remarkable feat, given the booze that was flowing freely), since the local constabulary had been kind enough to set up a DUI checkpoint 15 feet from the parking lot where my car resided. A fantastic evening.
Oh: best shirt ever.
Warning: everybody tears up while watching this video. EVERY. BODY. (If you don’t, you are a zombie, and I’d prefer you go elsewhere and not eat my sweetbreads.)
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Yep, this choked me up. I’m such a softie. (h/t Andrew.)
A touching speech from a decorated World War II veteran on what he fought for:
You know how you had plans for today? Yeah…not anymore.
As Charles would say, “Looka dat booful rainbow!”
