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December 25, 2007

Merry Christmas!

I'm totally visiting this when I get back to DC:

The National Park Service calls it "Ye Olde Yule Log," burning in a pit on the Ellipse near the National Christmas Tree, just down from the White House. But the phrase hardly captures the miracle of this holiday inferno. The first words uttered by so many new pilgrims to the blazing oasis show how much of our original selves we have lost:

"Is that fire . . . real?"

Yes, Virginia. The fire is real. Its very realness is one of the epiphanies of the national yule log. It burns continuously from Dec. 7 to Jan. 2, defying every instinct of the push-button, homeland security society.

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December 23, 2007

Musical interlude

John Scalzi always finds the cool stuff:

Look, I'm in rural New Jersey, it's raining really hard, and there are major traffic jams at all the malls. I need to find ways to keep me entertained.

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December 8, 2007

New Entry on My Wall

My longtime love-affair with The Red Elvises continues as I just had one of their posters framed:

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I picked up this poster when they played at The Iota Club (pronounced Eye-Oh-Tah, fellow Greek-speakers. They look at you funny if you call it the "yota club") when they played there in October. I first became acquainted with the band when I saw them featured in the movie Six String Samurai back in 1998 and was surprised to discover that they were a real band. Unlike my experience at the Harry and The Potters show at the same venue, all of the concert goers seems to be my fellow oldsters (or older). Which just reminded me how long ago it was that I saw Six String Samurai back at the Berkeley Cinema, now closed.

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