Happy V DAY!

Not as in "the lizard people are coming and you should be happy about it," but as in VALAMINTIMES DAY!  

These are for the paper valamintime pocket you taped onto your desk

Feliz Navidad!

Merry Christmas, my lovely peeps.  Thank you all for reading, for commenting, and for supporting this endeavor over the past year or so!  It's totals the best present anyone could ask for - though the coffeetable book on 100 years of Women's Wear Daily from the Manfriend and the ice cream maker we got from my parents are also highly enjoyable.

I hope your day is (or has been) full of love, laughter and copious calories - and don't skimp on that mistletoe!  It's coooooooold out there, and gettin' some is an EXCELLENT way to stay warm!

That's what I'm talkin' about!

A Sexy Last Minute Gift for the Girl Who Actually Has Everything

There are all kinds of ridiculous things that advertisers try and pass off as Christmas gifts.  I know there are households where a brand new Lexus is not unheard of as a present, but I also know there aren't enough of them to warrant the number of commercials you see this time of year with big-ass bows sitting on big-ass cars in big-ass driveways.

recession schmisession!

It's IGDD Baby!!

I'm adding another December holiday to the glorious Kwanschristmukkah celebrations already afoot: I hereby decree December 15th as International Going Down Day!  If you're in a position to go down on someone (in a consensual and appropriate manner, of course) tomorrow is the day to do it!

they're eating out*, and look how happy she is!

Happy (day after) World AIDS Day!

I got totally whacked with schoolwork this week, so my World AIDS Day post is, as my father would say, a day late and a dollar short.  I had planned to do a recap of all the crazy (in a good way) and wonderful things that happened in the world of AIDS this year (no cure or anything, but exciting nonetheless), but I have treatment plans that need to get done and I got all screwed up with Thanksgiving and EXCUSE EXCUSE EXCUSE, but hey - you got some awesome links there, and here is a super cute AIDS awareness penguin for your enjoyment.

I'm naming him F.U. AIDS Penguin.

F.U. AIDS Penguin (who I had no part in the creation of - buy t-shirts here!) is dedicated not only to the millions of people affected with HIV in the world and those who work tirelessly to fight it, but also to T-Zous, my favorite penguin-loving Jew since 1991, who gave birth to an absolutely beautiful 7 pound baby girl early on World AIDS Day Eve (a.k.a. Nov. 30).  A big fat Mazel Tov to you, my girliefry - let's go eat sushi!

Gobble Gobble, Baby

It's Turrrrrrrkey day, peeps!  In my family, that means we get together and sample the various ways we've all managed to cram butter into food.  That's how the Pennsylvania Dutch throw down, yo.  I once told my sister that I'd run out of butter, and she actually disowned me for about 6 hours.  It's that serious.  But let's leave butter and sex to Brando and Bertolucci (kinda NSFW), and instead, let's talk about turkeys and sex!

This came up under an image search for "sexy turkey".
I don't understand, but I'm gonna roll with it because HELLO.

Heartbreak

I've been debating whether or not to write about Tyler Clementi and the other young men that have recently taken their own lives as a result of bullying they each endured for being gay.  On the one hand, it's been covered to death in the mainstream news, and I don't want to be redundant.  On the other hand, though...how can I not write about it?

Bullies make rainbows cry.

Happy Valamintimes Day!!

I vacillate between thinking that Valentine's Day is a day of commercialism and smashed expectations and thinking that it's...no, that's pretty much how I feel about it.

Don't get me wrong, it can be really sweet - the Manfriend has been known to totally outdo himself on the sweetness tip, which is why he is my Valamentime for keeps - but I wish the whole thing hadn't devolved to the point where men feel pressured to buy diamond jewelry they can't afford, and that women who don't get diamonds feel like they're not loved.

But, in the spirit of not being a total killjoy, I take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you a happy VD, and to let you know that if you don't have a valentine this year, I happily offer myself up. Consider this slipped into the decorated paper pouch taped to your desk:

Jump on the Chakabox Love Train!!

Mele Kalikimaka, Peeps

Or so our president, my sister and many other sunny Hawaiian folk are uttering this fine Christmas morning!

Whether or not you believe in the virgin birth that many are celebrating today, we all can use the lessons in kindness, compassion and acceptance that baby is said to have brought the world. May you be both the bearer and the recipient of those gifts throughout the upcoming year.

Thanks so much for reading, everyone (please keep doing so!!) and the very best of the season to you and yours. Merry Christmas!