Christmas movies are so corny. This year we watched Love, Actually. It’s a feel-good, very watchable chic flick. Loved this track from it by Darlene Love, although the video is for Home Alone 2 (which I also enjoyed years ago). This holiday fanatic is always looking for good christmas flicks, so if you have a rec let me know :-)
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missing Christmas in New York
Holidays in the tropics just isn’t the same as Christmas in New York. This year my annual leave happened to fall short of letting us stay in the city for Christmas, but at least I got to catch most of the holiday frenzy. It’s the time of year to enjoy the tourist areas of Rockefeller and Fifth Avenue, normally avoided like the plague the rest of the year. I especially love the creative window displays where department stores try to outdo each other– including their own past displays– every year. Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth never disappoints, and it’s a dense visual feast this year. Merry Christmas everyone!
Kermit Ruffins’ A Saints Christmas
Here’s a great piece by jazz trumpeter Kermit Ruffins. All I want for Christmas is the Saints in the Superbowl! Who dat wear that Black and Gold! Geaux Saints!! Here’s a list of other Saints-inspired covers, including an awesome number by Hunter McGregor from MySpace, Here We Go, Soldiers of the Black and Gold.
A pharma christmas carol
from Pharma Gossip, a little carol (to the tune of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”..)
Got rest us, pharma CEOs, let nothing we concern
Ineptitude will not reduce the millions that we earn
Our management is failing yet we think we need not learn
No tidings of comfort or joy
Comfort or joy
For the scientists we used to employ
God bless ye, Jeffrey Kindler, Pfizer’s dubious accolade
A corporate malfeasance fine, the largest ever paid
Regarded as a simple cost of business, I’m afraid
Sad tidings of marketing fraud
Marketing fraud
Sad tidings of marketing fraud
Financial joy for Fred Hassan, now Schering Plough’s been sold
His second mega-golden parachute can now unfold
And twenty thousand Pharma hands once more are on the dole
Schering Plough’s gone the same as Pharmacia
Pharmacia
Cut and run marks out good ol’ Fred’s career
God help thee AstraZeneca, pharma’s Titanic liner
It’s shutting down it’s First World sites and shipping them to China
For short term savings now – what motivation could be finer?
Sad tidings of jobs gone abroad
Jobs gone abroad
For the benefit of members of the Board
God rest our Pharma industry, it hasn’t got a prayer
Now run by greedy plutocrats who simply do not care
About the science or the ethics of human healthcare
Downsizings for comfort and wealth
Personal wealth
Downsizings for personal wealth
So spare a thought this Xmas for all those made unemployed
To boost the wealth of plutocrats whose greed is unalloyed
Because of them the Western pharma trade will be destroyed
Mad tidings of Money For The Boys
Cash For The Boys
Slash and burn is making Money For the Boys…
Xmas tunes: Trans-Siberian Orchestra with Hellsing!
the group’s an all-star heavy metal cast. who’d’ve thunk punk metal rockers with their v guitars goes with classical music goes with dracula anime?? music’s such a unifier…
fun eh?… i see the cringing… :-)
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Merriest sentiments this side of the Rock
Adapt? Haa bumbug!
Avian flu paranoia thwarted my joneses for that turkey dinner spread. We were told by the maître d’ at a premier establishment, Le Royale, how pleasantly surprised they were that all three whole turkeys (quote unquote don’t forget the emphasis) they imported for the Thanksgiving Dinner buffet were consumed…. Hmm, to feign appropriate shock astride a diametric quip of american gluttony on tip of tongue…. Likewise in the sweetest misguided gesture, some colleagues this week inflated a large squash in the office and decorated this jack with blinking lights. What is–?? It’s a christmas pumpkin, I’m told cheerily.
:-| Oh.
Riposte-riddled mirth in season’s greetings: Priceless
Cheers to y’all living abroad and/or apart of friends and family! May your yuletide (or other) fancies be fulfilled– safe travels, sensible indulgence, and always, much much love. I hope in the new year to see more of you guys–