Nativity Scene on a Styrofoam Cup (Holiday Styrofoam Cup Art)
I would like to say "Merry Christmas" to all!
And a most specifically directed 'Merry Christmas', not just to Christians, but to all Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Pagans, Wiccans, and most especially my fellow Pantheists.
Chloe's Christmas tree sporting a Nativity Scene on a Styrofoam Cup courteousy of 'the Jesus face on a styrofoam cup guy' artist
This greeting is specifically designed to help me avoid the no-fly list this holiday season, as I'll be transferring in the Cincinnati Ohio airport (in Kentucky), where they've been known to confiscate even such benign items as chainsaws. You see I've heard rumours that the all-inclusive greeting "Happy Holidays" is now considered blasphemy that leads to things like terrorism, drug addiction, a baby Jesus crying even though his nappy is clean, and rampant willy-nilly partial birth abortions of potential baby Jesuses.
(To be very clear, that's espanol 'Jesus' pronunciation, just so nobody gets the idea I'm referring to the infant Christ or a potential Second Coming.)
If you don't 'get it' (the joke), then here's some recommended links that'll clear it up for ya: NPR : Pondering Today's 'No-Fly' Objects Spiritual Journey |Magickal Musings: Have a PC Holiday? Media Matters - "Somewhere Jesus is weeping"
And just to be very clear, I'm all for putting more spiritual significance back into the holiday season, and curbing commercial excesses at the holidays. All holidays.
The ornaments on my tree are chock full of nostalgia!
A Nativity Scene Religious Styrofoam Cup Art by 'the Jesus face on a styrofoam cup guy'. This one has not only baby Jesus, but also the Madonna. (Joseph is depicted on the cup, but he can't be seen in the photo.)
An itsy bitsy Christmas stocking, which originally contained licorice flavoured candy that looked like a chunk of coal. My friend Leslie gave me that back in 1992.
The pear ornaments Leslie & I bought this year, and split the package.
The chick in the hat and ear muffs was from a set of ornaments Leslie gave me for Christmas in 1991. That year I put up the tree given to me as a hand me down from my sister Marie, with nothing but lights on it. Some of my friends made paper snowflakes as ornaments for the tree. And Leslie gave me a set of little plush animal ornaments. Upon my cat Nikita's arrival on the scene in 1997, I realized, or rather she realized, how much those ornaments resemble cat toys.
The little wooden duck with wheels was given to me by, I believe, by one of my teachers in perhaps 1981.
Not seen are the glass ornaments I made as a Girl Scout in the 1970s, and a red ornament given to me by a priest/teacher in the late 1980s.
I know my mother probably would disapprove of mixing silver and gold garland together on the same tree, but I kind of like it.
Hmm...I see what you mean about blogspot blogs possibly being "nerfed" (even though I'm not sure why Google would do that, since they OWN Blogger/Blogspot now...). A search for "Hallowhog" pulls up your site as the only hit, despite the fact that I introduced the term to the Internet here:http://anothermonkey.blogspot.com/2004/11/happy-hallowhog.html
Posted by Harold | Thursday 27 January 2005 7:14AM
Wow - that's weird. You'd think it would at least show your page mentioning "hallowhog", since your site is definitely indexed, if not highly ranked!
Posted by Chloe | Thursday 27 January 2005 5:37PM
The really weird part is, that entry used to show up on Google! I guess it's been de-listed.
I once wrote a post on how proud I was to be the #1 Google result for the string
"richard lewis" mauritius birds. Now I don't show up at all, as far as I can tell! It may have something to do with the posts being squirreled away in an archive, although I still get hits for "ciara get up on the dance floor"!
I'm thinking of writing a "greatest hits" post linking to my favorite entries, and loading it up with words that will (I hope) show up on relevant Google searches.
Posted by Harold | Thursday 27 January 2005 9:46PM
Hmmm, I didn't realize things got de-listed. Unless they didn't exist anymore, of course.
But here's a tip, you should make the link text be relevant words, thus: "richard lewis mauritius birds". Apparently this helps with ranking for those particular words.
Posted by Chloe | Thursday 27 January 2005 11:25PM
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Hmm...I see what you mean about blogspot blogs possibly being "nerfed" (even though I'm not sure why Google would do that, since they OWN Blogger/Blogspot now...). A search for "Hallowhog" pulls up your site as the only hit, despite the fact that I introduced the term to the Internet 
Wow - that's weird. You'd think it would at least show your 
