the war on Xmas and other bits of wishful thinking

[greygirlbeast]

Somehow, I'm managing to sleep too much and badly. Epic nightmares, and then I wake at 10:30 when I should be waking at 9. My mind is too restless, whether I'm awake and asleep, worrying at too many things that should be left alone. I can't seem to find my way into "Bainbridge" (the "last" Dancy Flammarion story), and I'm getting behinder and

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[robyn_ma]

'And speaking of tentacles, did everyone get Sirenia Digest #1?'

That's affirmative, Captain.

[oneirophrenia]

http://www.fuckchristmas.org

Says. It. All.

This year, in fact, I have declared my own private war on X-mass in the form of the creation of a new identity: Stanta Cluse, the AntiClaus. It all started with a mispelling in a letter to Santa that was printed in the newspaper I work for. I observed the name "Stanta Cluse" and was immediately struck with the realization that this character is, in fact, the very antithesis of Santa Claus: he breaks into people's houses and takes stuff on Christmas Eve...including the Christmas Spirit, the Meaning of Christmas, and all ghosts, Past, Present, and Future.

[from_ashes]

In addition to the Christmas story, I had to go to one of those corporate forced Christmas parties and I kid you not, we had prayer before our little "dinner." A nice Christian prayer, too, which the Jewish guy in the office probably didn't appreciate it. In fact, he was so afraid of offending anyone, that as my Secret Santa, he wrapped my present in Hanukkah paper inside out so I wouldn't see the "Happy Hanukkah." I assured him Hanukkah was much less offensive to me than Christianity *L*

I didn't even know it was allowed to have prayer at work - for some reason, I thought it was illegal or SOMETHING.

[greyaenigma]

I think the legality is limited to hiring practices. (I kept meaning to do more research on this at my last, cult-like work environment.)

You might be able to make a case on "hostile work environment", but in today's culture, I think it'd have to be pretty extreme. Even government which is supposed to be secular, is pretty entrenched. When I proposed a bill in the YMCA Youth and Goverment mock legislature that would stop opening every session with a prayer, the real Speaker of the House apparently showed up to quash the fake bill. (Albeit behind the scenes.)

[thingunderthest]

I wonder if I can get Cephalopodmas cards printed up in time for Dec 22nd?

Yeah, Oreilly should have told his web guys about Christmas earlier.
http://www.bobharris.com/content/view/773/1/

[mockingbirdgrrl]

sirenia #1. check. beautiful artwork by vince locke, check.
war on christmas? got my guns ready, colonel.

(the www.fuckchristmas.org is beautiful, btw.)