Halloween @ MindSay 
costumes
(Disclaimer: This is actually a coworker of mine. See what working at a newspaper can do to a person? She was normal once, just like you. Be warned. Take heed. Be afraid. Be VERY afraid...)
It's been less than a month, I think it's some kind of record for putting stuff up quickly.
And Other Incidental Transgressions
- A Technicolour Quagmire of the Soul
- The Sleigh Ride to Armageddon
"So save your prayers
For when your really gonna need 'em..."
'Tis the season to be scary, boo-boo-boo-boo-boo boo-boo-boo-eeeeeekkkk!!!
A very merry All Saints Eve to one and all. Yes, I did not use the common name for today’s celebration for I am an unusual sort of person, running a multinational conglomerate, and my golden parachute will save me if the shareholders vote me off the island...
I'm going to do things a little different this year, not because I choose to do so, but rather because of the death of my PDA I must. So this year instead of having my pumpkin carvings placed upon the Flonk Image Server, I'll just place them here for all to see. They are not as spectacular as the Vampire from a couple of years ago, they are not as artsy as the Andy Warhol carving, they are not as comical as Charlie Brown from last year, but they are as they are and shall be seen below...
Darth Vader to scare all the young Jedi masters...
By request, a tame wolf...
And now that has been accomplished, I will have to thank Spike for he was the first non-employee of this company to use the question/answer thingie towards the bottom of the page and as far as I can tell the entire process did not kill him or even harm him in anyway. And I am typing this news letter on the Palmtop PC his former employer gave to me though I did up the memory to a gig for I write a whole big bunch of stuff...
And let's get down with our bad selves; way down, like six feet under for it is that time of the year to enjoy the Halloween Edition of the Flavour of the Week...
"Throw out your cares and fly
Wanna go for a ride?"
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***HOLIDAY OF THE WEEK***
All Saints Day!!!
Woo-hoo!!!
This year I'm dressing up as St. Ewald the Dark...
Ew, spooky...
The Flavour of the Week Store:
http://www.cafepress.com/wsdesign
***MUSICAL INTERLUDE***
"If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last..." - T-SO
***CD OF THE WEEK***
"Light Music for Dying People" by Sordid Humor
The titles for a CD ever written...
'Tis a fine selection for Halloween...
Reminds me of some holiday about dead people...
I wonder which one it may be...
I ain’t got a clue
Sponsored in part by no one at the moment...
***PERIPHERAL VISIONARIES***
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Seems to be a lack of material to add to this (don't ya feel guilty)
but I am a patient boy, I wait, I wait, I wait...
***FLAVOUR OF THE WEEK***
ANY BRAND
ANY FLAVOUR
It don't matter much for you should be out gathering treats...
Many, many treats made of CHOCOLATE!!!
mmmmmmm, I gots a belly ache already...
Rings and Things!!!
http://www.ringsandthings.biz
for all the finest in all that sparkles!!!
***SITE UPDATE OF THE WEEK***
THE BOOK OF TOAST!!!
Genesis: The Story of Sodom and Gamera
3 Eris - A Letter from Eris to the Philistines
The Parable of Ms. Benefit
THE FLONK IMAGE SERVER!!!
http://www.meow.org/flonk/Fun-with-a-Zire71?page=15
http://www.meow.org/flonk/Fun-with-a-Zire71?page=16
http://www.meow.org/flonk/Fun-with-a-Zire71?page=17
http://www.meow.org/flonk/Fun-with-a-Zire71?page=18
***WORTHY CHARITABLE SITES & OTHER SITES***
***BUY A T-SHIRT SO I CAN AFFORD ICECREAM***
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And thanks to all who don't want to see me go without IceCream!
***HUH?***
SO SIMPLE EVEN A CAVEMAN COULD DO IT!!!
NEXT TIME DO A LITTLE RESEARCH!!!
THE SERVERS ARE OUR FRIENDS!!!
THEY WANT TO SERVE US!!!
YOU KNOW, TODD, RUMORS CAN BE HURTFUL!!!
WE DON'T AGITATE THE DOTS!!!
MASHED POTATOES, GRAVY AND CRANBERRY SAUCE!!!
EAT THE SANDWICH!!!
YOU'LL RUN THE BILL UP, KID, HO, HO ,HO!!!
MY PLACE IS HERE WITH THE SNOW PEOPLE!!!
NEVER QUESTION MR. NIBBLES!!!
LOOK A UNICORN!!!
PRIME RIB IS THE ÜBERMEAT!!!
SEE YA LATER CRAZY MUTANT DESERT GUYS!!!
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Here in the United States, we have several holidays that don’t get the attention they deserve, and a few that get way too much attention. Now one of the holidays that is fast becoming forgotten is upon us.
For weeks we couldn’t enter a grocery store or a discount store without running head-on into a huge display of Halloween candy. Paper witches and Frankensteins were plastered on windows and hung from ceilings while pumpkins huddled together on the floor beneath the produce racks or out in front of the store.
No sooner did we get the Halloween candy out of our faces than we were bombarded with Christmas goodies—candy canes, marshmallow Santas left over from Christmases past (I worked in a grocery store, so I know), and those awful red and green cookies you could patch a hole in a roof with.
Seems to me that something’s missing.
Aside from meat freezers stocked with turkeys, and large displays of Stove Top stuffing, the only promotion I saw for Thanksgiving was a small cardboard stand filled with cartoon turkey cocktail napkins and cups...and that was hidden behind a Christmas tree.
Why does Thanksgiving get so little attention while all the emphasis is placed on Halloween and Christmas? It’s simple. Money. Halloween and Christmas are goldmines, and Thanksgiving gets the shaft.
Let’s face it, only those in the grocery business make any money off of Thanksgiving, so all the other businesses have to milk Halloween and Christmas for all they’re worth. Even most grocery stores have lost sight of the true meaning of the holiday in their quest for the almighty buck.
Just ten years ago, most grocery stores were closed on Thanksgiving so their employees could spend the day with their families, but now one would be hard-pressed to find a supermarket that’s not open for at least part of the day. If you don’t have what you need by Thanksgiving Day, then tough turkey (pun intended). I’ve always said that.
It’s easy to get caught up in the glitz of Halloween and Christmas, the true meaning of which is also fading fast in the world’s minds. They’re fun holidays, however commercial they may be, but Thanksgiving is what this country’s all about. It’s as important a national holiday as the Fourth of July. If not for Thanksgiving, there might not have been an Independence Day.
We certainly might not have the freedom to celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, or whatever else it is you celebrate. The Pilgrims came over here 400 years ago so we could have the freedom to do these things, and on the first Thanksgiving, they thanked God for all the blessings He had bestowed upon them in the New World.
Despite the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency, we still live in the greatest country on the face of the planet. There should be 365 days of thanksgiving (366 in a leap year), so is it too much to ask to take just one day out to sit down and count our blessings?
When a day that’s as important as Thanksgiving gets lost in a sea of corporate greed, maybe it’s time for us to take a serious look at our lives and values. Chew on that and a mouthful of turkey the next time you get a hankering for candy corn or candy canes.
© 2007 by J.D. Lewis
-me and ryan are fine
-halloween was fun
-me and friends are doing well
-ill be at a natural helpers retreat wed-friday. Ill write about it when i get back:)
got to go do history before i get in trouble. byebye
-:)Kristal:)
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