— Mr. Joshua (@pantspants.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 3:13 PMI received my first Christmas cards in the mail yesterday. They are from my dentist and my accountant. Those are the two I can count on each year, although I will have a few others by December 25th. Those will be mostly handed to me without postage. The ones from my long distance family members will arrive after Christmas. (via Everlasting Blort)
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Holiday Greetings
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
If Radiohead Did "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"
There's an old radio adage that you can make any tune a Christmas song if you add jingle bells. That may be true for instrumentals, but it doesn't quite work here. Dustin Ballard of There I Ruined It took the lyrics of the 1934 classic "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" and adapted them to the tune of Radiohead's song "Creep" (the broadcast safe version). Sure, he added jingle bells, but it still sounds more like "Creep" than like any Christmas song.
The Fan
What's the most absurd way to install a ceiling fan? This disaster seems to be the result of sequential problem solving, meaning figuring out one task at a time without looking at the goal of the finished product. If the genius idea you had at the beginning results in an unintended consequences, well, we'll just cross that bridge when we get there. (via reddit)
Tom BetGeorge's 2025 Christmas Angels
Tom BetGeorge has spent years trying to outdo himself with his Halloween and Christmas light shows (so much that he's built a light show business out of his success). He's choreographed them to Star Wars, rock songs, rap songs, and various movie themes. For 2025, BetGeorge has raised the "wow" factor, as always, but the music is less pop culture and more Christmas. Three singing Christmas trees croon Phil Wickham's remix of "Angels We Have Heard on High" that he calls "Angels (Glory to God)." Meanwhile, lights dance across the house, augmented with lasers, spotlights, and projections, while fireworks explode in the night.
But wait, there's more! BetGeorge always has several songs in his Christmas light show, which will appear one at a time over the next few days at his YouTube channel.
Tortoise Chases Cat Around Yard
This tortoise must really love his buddy the cat. He's learned to put it in high gear to keep up with the feline as she travels all over the backyard. This reminds me of what it's like to be the mother of a couple of preschoolers. They didn't care where I was going, they were just going to follow me, single file, period. If I turned around suddenly, we all collided. (via Laughing Squid)
Monday, December 08, 2025
Dinosaur Stampede!
Richmond, Virginia, had their annual T. rex run a couple of weeks ago. As you can see, all kinds of dinos were welcome, from dragons to Barney to Godzilla to a couple of alligators. (via Everlasting Blort)
Christmas Cakes You Will Never Make
So beautiful, so delicious, so complicated. I watched this and all I could think of was how many times you would be willing to try these in order to perfect the technique. I'll stick with what I already know, thank you.
Creepy Tales from Chernobyl
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was in the USSR when it was the site of the worst nuclear accident in history in 1986. Now it is in Pripyat, Ukraine. No, it wasn't blown across the border; the map changed after the fall of the Soviet Union. Reactor number four melted down and exploded, killing dozens of people from injuries and/or radiation and contaminating a huge area. More than 68,000 people were evacuated, and the area is still under restrictions almost 40 years later. Well, officially; the Russian Army doesn't pay attention to Ukraine's restrictions.
The Soviet Union couldn't hide the event, but they weren't exactly forthcoming about the evacuation, cleanup attempts, and later expeditions to the site. Lack of information from authorities confused and enraged the former residents of Pripyat and the surrounding villages, as well as the rest of the world. Some people didn't believe the place was a dangerous as they said, while others spread rumors about what the real truth about Chernobyl could be. After Ukraine became an independent nation, more and more of these stories came to light. Weird History takes a look at the fallout (pun intended) of the Chernobyl disaster and its aftermath. Some of those tales include creepy supernatural elements, as if the real story isn't scary enough.
Miss Cellania's Links
The Festive History of Gingerbread and “The Twelve Days of Christmas” by Grace Tierney. (via Strange Company)
British Museum is promising ‘Good Vibrations’ for the Bayeux Tapestry’s trip to the London. (via Nag on the Lake)
Pantone's Color of the Year is... White? The backlash started the moment Pantone made the announcement.
Alain Bombard: The Biologist Who Shipwrecked Himself to Prove a Point. Sixty-five days without fresh water was a long way to a point.
"God Rest Yes Merry Gentlemen" is a great song, but where does the punctuation go?
We were worried about the wrong dystopia. We were all so busy worrying about Big Brother we forgot to worry about Soma. (via Fark)
How the Disappearance of Flight 19, a Navy Squadron Lost in 1945, Fueled the Legend of the Bermuda Triangle.
"Mar-a-Lago face" has its own Wikipedia entry. (via Nag on the Lake)
Quoting myself from elsewhere on the 'net: They said she is "one of the good ones," not realizing that every brown-skinned immigrant these people know in real life are "one of the good ones."
Paul McCartney Rabbit Hole
The simple explanation for this is that Swede Mason has Paul McCartney doing a rap song about modern music. That doesn't quite do it justice, however. The tight editing, quick rhythm, and masterful rhyming make it a quirky masterpiece. Someone asked Swede Mason how he made videos like this.
Alot of grinding. I don't use transcribed audio. I think it sounds shit when things are kinda just stuck together with the correct words. I look for the right intonation of sounds and syllables, sometimes chop up words to make the words i need. Writing this down makes it sound like a total ballache, and thats cos it is a total ballache.And there ensued a discussion on the proper pronunciation and meaning of ballache, because it looks like a French musical term (ball-ACH-ay). He meant ball ache. (via reddit)
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