Today's Mighty Oak


Okay, popping in once more to share a video that’s been circulating.

 

Here’s the background of the story at the Times:

They had handed out a few letters to friends to answer, but not nearly enough to make a dent in the pile. Each day when one of them would check the mail more letters would fall out of the box.

One option: Take the letters to the Main Post Office, where they would be added to the thousands of other letters sent to Santa each year. Thoughtful strangers, in a perfect world, would pick them up and buy the letter writers gifts.

But Jim imagined the worst: “If we bring them back to the post office, are all the kids getting a letter back with ‘Return to Sender’? I don’t want that to happen.”

And another follow up interview here:

It’s interesting to think about kids growing up and learning that Santa was really two gay guys in Chelsea. How do you think that will make them feel?
Jim: By the time they grow up, it won’t matter. Years from now, they won’t even think in terms of gay or not-gay.


To anyone who has seen the actual Star Wars Christmas Special, this is what we were looking for:



You know it’s the end of the year when all these start popping up.  Here’s one I look forward to all the time:



I’m trying to figure out some site issues.  I updated to the latest version of Joomla, and things got messed up.  I’ll keep you posted, for now though, a bunch of old posts are popping up as recent, so nothing major, but an inconvenience.

Update: I feel all excited now, I made a backup before updating the site (like I’m supposed to, and like I always do), so I tried restoring it.  This was a first for me, but it seems to have worked!  So between the server outage, which seems to be over, and a crazy update from Joomla, it’s been a crazy week here at the site.  I do apologize, but we should be good now!



Let’s give this a second try…(first time did not save and I lost everything).  Hey everybody!  Lots of fun links to pass on, and I’ll be updating The Great and Secret Show as well, so stay tuned for more later this weekend as well.

I’ve found a lot of old links (from a few months ago), so I’ll only be posting the relevant ones, hope you enjoy:

Sometimes life is funny.  And ironic.

I really hope the city decided to leave the chalk drawings:

I was in a conversation with a friend talking about the different names for groups of animals.  The obvious winner is a sedge of cranes.

Ever feel alone?  You got nothing on this guy!

Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies is about exactly what you think, or at least their banner is.  The site is on Bloquin, so good luck trying to get it to display correctly or have a working RSS feed though.

I hate the Wesboro Baptist Church as much as anyone.  But I love that they tried to take on the San Diego Comic Con and lost, so bad (and this doesn’t even show the parade the attendees put on as a counter protest).  Strong language and logic that will make your head explode about eight times:

Here is a cool chart showing different aspects on covers of fantasy book.  I can’t embed it here, for some reason it breaks Joomla.  Sorry!

And really, at this point, you’re just showing off:

Okay, that’s it for this one, shorter update, but more to come soon!



I just found the second trailer for the Voyage of the Dawn Treader, so excited:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8a4sNdUX3Q



I’m popping in briefly as a break from my noveling to embed the video for the song that is headlining the soundtrack to The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  It happens to be my favorite book and I’m really, really, excited about the movie (possibly more than I was for Harry Potter 7, although I feel like I should not share that for some reason).  Anyway, here it is:

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