31 December 2021
Happy New Year As we leave 2021 behind, what are your hopes and dreams for 2022?
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27 December 2021
How was your Christmas? →Read more...
24 December 2021
Leaping Christmas buffalos Batman. My wife had to go into work this morning to interview 3 potential new employees. It's Christmas eve but they really need staff preferably before the new year.
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XMAS music 2 hours of wintery sometimes sad sometimes happy but always affecting
music.
Christmas eve. Are you feeling it?
23 December 2021
Christmases past I posted covers of Joni Mitchell's River. Here is the first official video for the song released today. Lovely b&w watercolour animation with a hint of colour at the end. Joni Mitchell -
River
fun tweets I saw today Maybe we can make this a group activity.. I'll share one today to start with
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XMAS music Suzie Ungerleider aka Oh Susanna & Michael Johnston -
After the Holidays.
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22 December 2021
XMAS music mee mee mee mee. The Muppets -
Ringing of the Bells
21 December 2021
XMAS music Baby you got some big bulbs. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings -
Big Bulbs
20 December 2021
Listen to me, butterfly, there’s only so much wine you can drink in one life, but it will never be enough to save you from the bottom of your glass
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'Keep, keep in mind all this time that I’ve spent here alone
I know you’re a good man but it was a bad plan from the get-go'
Elliot Maginot -
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19 December 2021
Ghost of Christmas Specials past. 4 Christmas specials from the past.
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XMAS music Santa works hard y'all so come new years eve he just wants to relax. Jane's Party -
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18 December 2021
XMAS music Moscow Apartment -
Just Like Christmas. A teen Canadian folk independent duo Moscow Apartment cover the 1999 Low song with less grumpiness and more wistfulness.
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17 December 2021
XMAS music You've heard Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy but not like this. PIQSIQ -
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. PIQSIQ, pronounced pilk silk, are sisters adapting Inuit-style throat singing to what feels right to them in the 21st century.
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16 December 2021
XMAS music The Blues From 1925 Bessie Smith -
At The Christmas Ball Got to love the lyrics, 'If your partner don't act fair, don't worry there's some more over there'.
15 December 2021
XMAS music Where the cookies and milk could be seen... Lustful Christmas.
Cyndi Lauper -
Minnie And Santa
Clarence Carter -
Back Door Santa
Lady Gaga Ft. Space Cowboy -
Christmas Tree
Beatnik's Wish There are no words.
Yuletide Throwdown Christmas remix from Fab 5 Freddy and Blondie
Sylvian joululaulu A beautiful Finnish carol.
14 December 2021
XMAS music You spin me right round Christmas. From 1990 Pete Burns and Dead Or Alive -
Blue Christmas (no relation to the Elvis one.) and the 2000 dance pop
remix.
13 December 2021
Santa Claus for President. Because everything's political these days. At least he's running a nonpartisan campaign.
XMAS music 1 song 3 languages.
Koolulam One Day - Matisyahu.
"Koolulam is a social-musical initiative, meant to bring together people from any and all walks of life. Our Idea is to simply stop everything for a few hours and just sing - together. "
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12 December 2021
XMAS music "it's kinda funny how forever turns into Christmas cards" Tenille Townes - Christmas Cards. A song about how life and people move on.
Website.
My cat's secret life? So my buddy Ginger is generally here in my yard from about 5:30 P.M. to 6:00 A.M. He has maintained this schedule for many years.
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11 December 2021
XMAS music Not music today but Patton Oswalt talking about maybe the most awful manipulative Christmas song ever. 2001's
Christmas Shoes by New Song. NSFW.
10 December 2021
XMAS music The Monkees -
MTV Christmas Medley '86 Stay for Santa at the end. RIP Mike.
Frank & Dean and Christmas. Frank Sinatra and his children and Dean Martin and Dean's wife and their many many children present festive holiday songs. It's interesting to see which of the children have show biz charisma and which don't. (Also, I suspect that Frank & Dean were, well, somewhat lubricated during filming.)
09 December 2021
XMAS music Ellen Doty - Glad You're Here
I don't know much about this except it is a new holiday song with a hidden link and it's great. From Ellen Doty & TAYLR. I don't know much about them either so:
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08 December 2021
XMAS music Another contribution from Japan.
Shonen Knife - Space Christmas and
Shonen Knife - Sweet Christmas just because Shonen Knife is the coolest band ever.
Buy
here.
07 December 2021
You. You OK? So we are coming up on two years of pandemic life. How are you these days?
XMAS music Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence!
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence!
There are many versions of this, from the soundtrack to the movie, the rereleased soundtrack, and live with various other players but I like this unaccompanied piano played by Sakamoto the best.
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06 December 2021
XMAS music And another full album for you.
Mother & Child (A Christmas Celebration Of Motherhood)
In 1995 someone at IRS records put together a Christmas album to try to hit the soccer moms of America right in the feels. They picked a group of performers from the mainstream pop, R&B, country, and religious charts and themed it around motherhood and Christmas.
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05 December 2021
XMAS music Today a full album of old and new songs for Christmas from Molly Johnson,
It's A Snow Globe World. A Pop jazz holiday.
Molly Johnson formerly of
Alta Moda, and
The Infidels used to host Blue Mondays at the Cameron House in Toronto back when we were much younger.
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04 December 2021
XMAS music Another 80s song and it's another not so happy one.
Prince - Another Lonely Christmas. This is the only time he played it live, December 26 1984 in St. Paul. Here is the
story.
03 December 2021
XMAS music Blondie and Fab 5 Freddy's
Yuletide Throwdown (Cut Chemist Remix) Pure early 80s sound with a more modern sensibility. I really like this mix.
BONUS holiday music Foo Fighter Dave Grohl and producer Greg Kurstin celebrate with
The Hanukkah Sessions. Covers of Manilow, Amy Winehouse, Beastie Boys, Drake, Peaches, The Knack, Lisa Loeb, the Ramones and more.
02 December 2021
XMAS music Mariah Carey always shows up at Christmas and
we're not gonna take it any more.
Eddie Mekka (aka Carmine 'the Big Ragoo' Ragusa') has
passed away.
*raises Shotz beer*
01 December 2021
XMAS music Christmas isn't always happy for everyone and here is a darkwave celebration of that.
It's Not a Happy Christmas (Radio Edit) from
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25 November 2021
13 November 2021
are we interested in doing anything with Mecha? This site is pretty much in retirement now but if any small tech stuff can help keep things lively (implementing the ability to say someone 'liked' your post, cross-posting from twitter etc, stuff like that) I'd be happy to help out.
11 November 2021
Ever wondered what customs people of other faiths practice... →Read more...
08 November 2021
So how was your week? Well, the depression isn't what it was a few months ago, when it would last me in spells of almost a month with a one week reprieve in-between. All in all, I say it's been an improvement in how it was earlier in the year.
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29 October 2021
METACHAT NEEDS YOUR HELP... →Read more...
"ARE WE FIXING THIS UP OR WHAT?" [New images for the side-bar anyone?] →Read more...
27 October 2021
What did you guys think of the latest show by Dave Chappelle? I'm forgetting the name, but it was the one where he went on to explain why he's got problems with the Transvestite community... I had no idea it was such a big deal out there, and for someone who might not be aware of the back-story, according to *not* Chappelle, just wanted to know what you guys made of it?
22 October 2021
*AHEM* AND I GUESS A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
BECAUSE NO ONE HERE EVER WISHES ME A HAPPY BIRTHDAY
KISSES TO AN ARSEHAT
AND LOVE TO MY SURVIVING BRETHREN
FROM THE TIME THAT ONCE WAS
I AM STILL BUILDING AN ISLAND
WE NOW HAVE LAND STAKED OUT
HAVE A NICE DAY
10 October 2021
There is no such condition as "enough Lego"
28 September 2021
We have to remove a tree. We have a tree that is menacing our house. We having been talking about
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15 September 2021
Secret Life of a Crime Scene Cleaner Short read. A look at how trauma plays out for different people over time.
20 August 2021
So, how have “things” been going for y’all?
28 July 2021
27 July 2021
Cats. Always cats. I kept hearing an odd peeping noise whenever I went outside today.
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25 July 2021
Anyone else struggling with health issues? →Read more...
24 July 2021
Tell me something special about summer where you live - like, a food you are always eager to eat or a seasonal vegetable you wait eagerly for, or a ritual or local event that just says "summer."
18 June 2021
Ummm, fellas... any of you have photographs of yourself done up with a bit of flair? →Read more...
14 June 2021
Hey guys, how about we do one of these again... what are you having? Or rather, what will you be having once you get home tonight??
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25 May 2021
Does the International Community know about what's happening in India? Mass Graves; Innumerable Pyres; Black Fungus; White Fungus; New Strains... ?
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17 May 2021
Absolute rage. It has been a long 15 months. I have been doing well but there does seem to be a vein of deep stress in me somewhere.
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16 May 2021
It's the thought that counts, right? Meet intrepid 18-year-old Shiva, who wasn't going to let anything come in-between his family and Covid.
Even if it was going to be
him.
[ps. guys, is it too much for me to try and drag the old team back with some stories from across the shore in the hopes that it might touch someone enough to hopefully urge them to reply... you think it's worth a shot?]
14 May 2021
The States has its nuts like Rush Limbaugh, Hannity and Alex Jones... While we have our own.
Sorry for posting another double, but just found out that the woman who'd come to my house (when I had one) for cleaning it--just got diagnosed with Corona today... few hours back, actually.
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13 May 2021
Israel/Palestine, India, and the US... I hear that times are tough for our US metachatters... my sisters say that the lines you guys are having to put up with at the gas pumps are the longest they've ever been (since the 70's fuel/oil crisis I'm guessing, thanks to the Arab countries blocking their trade thanks to the happenings in the middle-east that decade). And the same is happening this century as well, as it will again and again until this crisis in the middle-east is cured once and for all, which looks more and more like an uncertainty at this point.
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09 May 2021
Gack! Losing it. I wrote the date today and had no problem with the 9th of May part but then had a few moments trying to remember the year. 2021 or 2022?
29 April 2021
Thursday 3-point update →Read more...
26 April 2021
Sorry for the double, didn't mean to block the front page of the site. It won't happen again, but just wanted to start a "what did you cook/eat/taste today" thread, because of what was being discussed somewhere else.
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23 April 2021
19 April 2021
You should be so lucky to have this much reason to dance so well
10 April 2021
07 April 2021
Cat watching TV I think I have gone from cat dad to crazy cat guy.
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04 April 2021
Happy Bunny Day To all the good bunnies here!
Life in the time of Covid. What's happening? Anything new?
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28 March 2021
List. Small bag of rice. AA battery. Pair of socks. Psychedelic patterned mouse. Reusable grocery bag. Metal storage tin. Strip of paper.
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25 March 2021
Politically Active →Read more...
22 March 2021
I crack myself up So I've been messing around with these dating apps after many years out of the game and learning a lot
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21 March 2021
A cat and a mouse. "Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get
loose in the joints and very shabby." The Skin Horse to the Velveteen Rabbit.
16 March 2021
It is exactly one year... →Read more...
15 March 2021
Daylight savings time. WHHHYYYY??!! do we keep up with this insanity of changing clocks here?
My car clock is finally set.
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11 March 2021
I just got 2 more people set up for Covid vaccination. That's 6 now. I feel like I have done something productive. In a year of much stasis it is a nice feeling.
05 March 2021
Covid- A New Hope →Read more...
27 February 2021
25 February 2021
Job news update →Read more...
22 February 2021
SARS-CoV-2 upside. It has been a great year in one way. Other than allergies I haven't had anything these past 12 months.
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20 February 2021
I survived the Texas Freezocalypse →Read more...
17 February 2021
I was googling interpretations of 'Running up that hill' eg (
here) and I'm kinda losing it. Like yeah it's about exchanging experiences and all that but am I the only one who thought that part of the metaphor is also about sex?
15 February 2021
12 February 2021
Vinegar Valentines Nasty Victorian Valentines.
08 February 2021
Update: I am scheduled for my first dose of Covid vaccine on Saturday. →Read more...
30 January 2021
Covid vaccination →Read more...
26 January 2021
Stuck at home? A hobby is nice. Robert Fripp of King Crimson fame and singer actress Toyah bring
Sunday Lunch. Previously seen as kind of dour and taciturn Bob has loosened up a bit.
More.
25 January 2021
24 January 2021
So is anyone else done? With people I mean. Just done with people? I am.
12 January 2021
Going to bed soon. But damn it is hard to wake up and get out of bed in the morning when you have three warm cats on top of you.
10 January 2021
"She is a burden but would u deny her?" Do u want to hear a story?
Typos aside, do you persevere?
01 January 2021
We made it! 2021 has kicked 2020 out!
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