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May I present the slightly Americanised “Twelve Politically Correct Days of Christmas” (if I can’t, bad luck – ’cause here it is anyway):
On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my Significant Other in a consenting adult, monogamous relationship gave to me:
TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual drumming,
ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made up of members in good standing of the Musicians Equity Union as called for in their union contract even though they will not be asked to play a note),
TEN melanin deprived testosterone-poisoned scions of the patriarchal ruling class system leaping,
NINE persons engaged in rhythmic self-expression,
EIGHT economically disadvantaged female persons stealing milk-products from enslaved Bovine-Americans,
SEVEN endangered swans swimming on federally protected wet-lands,
SIX enslaved Fowl-Americans producing stolen non-human animal products,
FIVE golden symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced domestic incarceration,
FOUR hours of recorded whale songs
THREE de-constructionist poets
TWO Sierra Club calendars printed on recycled processed tree carcasses and…
ONE Spotted Owl activist chained to an old-growth pear tree.
Merry Christmas Happy Chanukah. Good Kwanzaa. Blessed Yule. Happy Holidays! (unless otherwise prohibited by law)*
* Unless, of course, you are suffering from Seasonally Affected Disorder (SAD). If this be the case, please substitute this gratuitous call for celebration with suggestion that you have a thoroughly adequate day.
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News: Harry Potter and the Act Of Kindness
December 29th, 2002Nine year old Catie Hoch was dying from Neuroblastoma (an aggressive childhood cancer) and when it became clear that little Catie only had weeks to live, JK Rowling read her the manuscript of the then incomplete “Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire” book.
Whilst I understand that she will probably be unwilling to do a similar act for every child (if you just think about the number of children that are Harry Potter fans and the number that could be seriously ill at this moment of time- it wouldn’t give her time to do anything else), it is still quite “touching” and thoughtful. Yeah, some people will probably scream “publicity whore” – but does it really matter to a dying little girl? It just about “makes up” the time when Warner Brothers (who own the film rights to the Harry Potter films) started threatening maintainers of various Harry Potter websites – some of those being children…
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