Day Three

December 14, 2008December 14, 2009 / Anita Marie / 17 Comments

:::: A Twelve Day Journey To Christmas Day-

Will Anita Marie Get Her Fiji Mermaid THIS Year?:::

: Photo: It’s A Cryptid World

Today

On Day Three

Readers Want To Know

Is that your Christmas Present

Did Something Die

Under Your House Again?

I enjoy Politics.

I enjoy being part of the process and I really enjoy the psychology of it all- I mean- after I’ve been to meetings or talked to Politicians or Politicos I can sit down and knock out three solid horror stories one after the other.

Most of the times on those twisted ones I get comments like-

” What kind of mind can make you feel sorry for twisted demonic creatures who ride the bus home from work and spray paint death threats on walls? Yours I guess “

-yeah well-

the sad thing is there is no real cross over room for my writing and for my activism, so while I’m doing one I’m not involved with the other.

So the Anita Marie that wonders and then writes about what a cannibal is thinking while making pies out of her victims or what happens when a perfect marriage is ruined when a vampire wife turns human and has to leave her undead husband behind is not the same Anita Marie who understands why and must deal with the Political Machine and why it does what it does to friend and foe alike.

It’s not all grim un-fun work though.

I’m not going to downplay it- sometimes celebrities show up at events and that is very very cool.

One year I saw Richard Dreyfuss at the DNC is Boston and he gave this great speech at a breakfast meeting for the delegates. Michael Moore was seated as a Delegate at the same convention and I actually watched Wolf Blitzer interview Everclear’s Art Alexakis.

That aside though there aren’t many things that feed my creative spirit to be found in the political world.

And then today I found this picture

david-tennant-kitten

and this thread:

We’re huge fans of the new Doctor Who. David Tennant is not a bad looking fellow.

See evidence below:

I found these pictures at The Democratic Underground

and at the Democratic Underground- they’re asking:

Anyway… we’ve engaged in a debate. Is David straight, gay, or bi? Does anyone know for sure?

:::thread HERE:::

I mean, can think of one person who visits here that will probably take that thread and …well…she won’t be happy…but I am because I had no idea anyone involved with Politics cares about David Tennant, having totally pointless fun or wondering about something other then Stupid Sarah Palin and that dork Governor in Illinois.

Now.

I’m off to collect some info about how to make my own Fiji Mermaid.

I figure once those body parts start showing up AT MY MOM’S HOUSE ( like I’d let UPS leave stuff like that on my front door step where anybody could walk off with it ) my family will be all over this Fiji Mermaid thing.

Besides- how could you not have fun looking for a Fiji Mermaid?

Exactly.

And fun is just what the Doctor ordered.

a.m.

Now For Your Holiday Enjoyment
Christmas On Mars.
Really.

It’s a movie:::

On The First Day…

December 12, 2008 / animar / 7 Comments

fiji-postcard

:::: A Twelve Day Journey To Christmas Day-

Will Anita Marie Get Her Fiji Mermaid THIS Year?:::

Today

On Day One

I set out and discovered that you can’t get it all from The Mall

Today I asked my sister what her daughters wanted for Christmas.

One of my nieces wants Special Powers.

She wants to be able to understand what animals are saying.

I asked for a Fiji Mermaid – one of those awesome ones with fur and teeth.

I’ll bet my niece gets what she wants for Christmas this year.

On this first day I see my hopes for starting my own private Sideshow Museum slipping further away.

It’s Day One

and I am not feeling very Christmas’y’ right now.

There are 11 Days to go and that could change.

Right?

nothing says Merry Christmas like watching someone- or something smashing themselves in the head with a hammer

::from

Claymation Christmas::

Sometimes You Just Do It To Yourself

December 9, 2008 / Anita Marie / 7 Comments

santa-cookies

I’m not a hard person to shop for at Christmas- I don’t care about stuff, I just like opening the packages and being surprised.

Which means that I’m really hard to shop for because people think that I won’t say what I want…and when I do give it up and say what I want those same people think I’m kidding so these are the things that I have asked for and have never, ever received and probably never will.

Knives.

I wanted a set of those fancy knives that all good Cooks have in their kitchens.
I’m actually a great cook and I’d have to be because I use one knife and it’s never been sharpened. So really I can work miracles in the kitchen.

In case you’re curious

I will probably never get a set of knives from anyone I know because I write about people getting their heads chopped off… A LOT…oh and I was a Mortician.

And I have a temper.

I have asked and asked and ASKED again for a

Fiji Mermaid.

Yes I AM serious.

I think they’re cool.

And after 35+ years of asking I haven’t seen a Monkey /Fish toy, model, picture or keychain under my Christmas tree.

I suppose I will never get a Fiji Mermaid because- geeze I don’t know, I guess it’s because when I’ve been asked, ” Are you serious? ” I just roll my eyes around and walk off.

Something with Two Heads.

Actually what I wanted was a Pickled Punk.

I wanted something in a jar that I could name Bixy or Lil’ Chunkles and all I know is that after years of begging I have an empty shelf in my room with no Jar…oh wait I do have one full of fake eyes that float in water but that doesn’t count because I bought it for myself.

I can’t explain the Pickled Punk no show under the tree situation. I guess there’s no way anybody in my family is going to go to a store and asked for something dead in a jar to give to someone at Christmas…even if that someone is me.

Well.

I can’t fault my nearest and dearest for not twisting Santa’s otherwise open and giving hand to give me the present of my dreams-

I did it to myself.

I just ask for weird stuff.

So.

This year I’m going traditional.

This year I’m asking for something old fashioned.

Okay.

Fingers crossed everyone

and

Merry Christmas!

cold-cat

AdvenTURE Calendars at Soul Food

December 7, 2008December 7, 2008 / Anita Marie / 1 Comment

There is a tradition at the Soul Food Cafe. Each December, for the past five years, Heather Blakey has launched an Advent Calendar on the first day of December. Advent calendars have long helped build excitement and anticipation on the countdown to Christmas, typically revealing a pretty picture or piece of chocolate behind the cardboard door for each December day along the way. Heather Blakey adopted a new approach to this tradition. Each day during December a new link lights up on the Soul Food Advent Calendar.

The Cafe now has a collection of these beautiful features, kept for posterity and full of prompts and inspiration for eager writers and artists. This lens features all of them.

So check it out HERE and enjoy!

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Presents…Presents For You ALL!

December 2, 2008 / Anita Marie / 2 Comments

: Photo From: The Radio Museum

Here is a link to a site called

Web-Radio Christmas Stations

My Favorite Station Is

Christmas New Orleans Style…

( Oh Kitty….are you there? )

I just heard a version of the 12 Days of Christmas where somebody’s true love gave them a voodoo doll.

Here’s the youtube clip- you guys just HAVE to hear this song:

Told you.

It’s Great.

Have fun with the other stations too.

a.m.

30 And Counting

November 25, 2008November 25, 2008 / Anita Marie / 10 Comments

It’s 30 and Counting so here are a few little things to help you get into the Spirit of the holiday season

and

no it does not involve exorcisms or dead people or ghosts.

WOW.

You guys are MORBID.

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NORAD TRACKS SANTA

HERE

If you want to do something non-computer related

you could bake a

Red Velvet Cake

2 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cocoa powder
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup oil
1 tsp vinegar
2 eggs
1 1-oz. bottle red food coloring
1 tsp vanilla
Icing:
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter
1 1-lb. box powdered sugar
2 8-oz. packages cream cheese
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped pecans

Sift together dry ingredients. Add other ingredients in order: buttermilk, oil, vinegar, eggs, food coloring, and vanilla. Mix thoroughly. Bake in Bundt cake pan which has been greased and floured about 50 minutes (or until toothpick comes out clean) at 350 degrees. Cream Cheese Frosting: Let butter and cream cheese soften at room temperature. Cream well. Add sugar and beat until creamy. Add vanilla and blend well. Frost cake after it has cooled and sprinkle 1 cups chopped pecans on cake after it has been frosted.

Or you can buy it from Swiss Colony In The U.S.

Link is

HERE

So there are a few bits and pieces to get you in the Spirit- or make you cry like a baby because the holidays stress you out.

Oh… cheer up, it’ll be Easter before you know it.

What I Want For Christmas Pt 1

November 23, 2008 / Anita Marie / 6 Comments

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don’t want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don’t think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
He won’t have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door,
that’s the easy thing to do

I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too

(Short Music Interlude)

Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then
Teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian

(Short Music Interlude)

There’s lots of room for him in our two-car garage
I’d feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage

I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuseses
And hippopotamuses like me too!