Happy News Year!

     May there be happy news for all of you next year.

     God bless. (If you're into that)

RIP Meadowlark Lemon...and Lemmy Kilmister

     CNN, Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon, famed hoops jester, dies at 83; BBC, Lemmy, Motorhead frontman, dies aged 70 after cancer diagnosis.

     If they both somehow get into Heaven (I'm not sure about #2), that may be quite a partay.

December 26 saintlist

     Saints Dominic of Silos, Peter Canisius, John Kanty, and Stephen, and Blessed Jacopone da Todi, around this time of remembering St. Francis of Assisi's creating the first Christmas crib at Greccio in Italy, and this time of the Feast of the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord, please pray for us.

Joyous Kwanzaa 2015!

     Habari Gani?

Merry Christmas! Funk nite at the BL pt. XXVI: "Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto"

     Merry Christmas! Let's hear the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, deliver his funky Christmas tune "Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto":

     Funk it up!

Virgin Mary as "Christmas Eve" etc.

     The Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of You-Know-Whom, has often been called the "New Eve", i.e., making up for the mistakes of the old one.

     So can we also call that former, blessed lady by the name of "Christmas Eve"? ?? ???

     Your call, as usual. --Hang your stockings with care, etc.

Slovenians say "sorry" to same-sex marriage

     See yesterday's BBC, Slovenia rejects gay marriage in referendum.

     They've allowed civil unions for nine years, though. So maybe they aren't such terrible bigots after all. Your call.

December 19 saintlist

    Saints Lucy, John of the Cross, Lazarus, and Hildegard of Bingen, and Blessed Anthony Grassi, Mary Frances Schervier, Honoratus Kozminski, and Pope Urban V, and Berthold of Ratisbon, Servant of God, please pray for us.

Funk nite at the BL pt. XXV: Czech funk

     Tonite we have some Czechoslovakian funk, namely, "Zarli" by Discobolos. So, Czech check it out now:

     Funk it up!

Wednesday...Addams

     This Wednesday, let us consider an eponymous avatar of the day, Wednesday Addams, whose character (played by Christina Ricci) appeared in arguably one of the better films of the 1990's, Addams Family Values.

     George Bush senior's Vice President Dan Quayle's maybe-sanctimonious idea of "family values" was a meme of the time, but the film turned it around by having a bunch of ghouls in a haunted mansion show better family values--albeit in subversive ways--than a bunch of "WASPs" (sort of like Quayle) at a country-club summer camp. One could say more, but the links above probably say it better. Enjoy.

     ...Okay, here's a video too:

December 12 saintlist

     Saints Nicholas, Ambrose, Juan Diego, and Damasus I, and Blessed Adolph Kolping, around this time of the Feasts of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception and of Our Lady of Guadalupe, please pray for us.

Funk nite at the BL pt. XXIV: Trouble Funk

     Tonite we have "Pump Me Up" by the nicely-named Trouble Funk from Wash DC:

     Funk it up!

Fisher II oral-arguments analysis, part I

     "Help!"

John Lennon gone 35 years

     The Pearl Harbor of popular music, arguably. The shocking assassination 35 years ago.

     RIP JL.

Pearl Harbor Day 2015

     Never forget.

Happy Hanukkah! or, Happy Chanukah!

     One did not say "Chappy Chanukah", of course. That might be considered insulting.

     Chag Sameach!

December 5 saintlist

     Saints Andrew, Francis Xavier, Sabas, and John Damascene, and Blessed Charles de Foucauld and Rafal Chylinski, please pray for us.

Requiem night at the BL

     Seeing the recent massacres, we shall play Mozart's Requiem:

     Peace.

RIP San Bernardino massacre victims

     God rest.