And if you aren’t celebrating, happy regular Monday.

Happy holidays, y’all.

Donnie Darko (2001)

This is just to say

I have taken
the roast beast
that was in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for the Who-Feast

Forgive me
It was such a grinchy trick
so fliffer bloofs
and wuzzle wuzz

You can listen to the Christmas Eve broadcast by the crew of Apollo 8 as they orbited the Moon.

Borman ended their Christmas Eve transmission:

“And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a merry Christmas, and God bless all of you — all of you on the good Earth."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToHhQUhdyBY

Speaking of spooky Christmas stories, my fave panels from Mike Mignola’s “A Christmas Underground.” Great read for the night of the 24th.

The Apollo 8 astronauts performed lunar orbit insertion #OTD in 1968.

Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the moon, the first to see an earthrise, fifty three years ago today.

Anders spotted the Earth coming up over the Moon’s horizon:

"Oh my God, look at that picture over there! It's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!"

Image: NASA

Groot origin story.

@bstacey lol

Somewhat ominous Christmas lyrics that could also be the tagline of a Christmas horror movie:

“Hang your stockings and say your prayers”

“Oh-ho, the mistletoe
Is hung where you can see
Somebody waits for you”

“He sees you when you're sleeping,
He knows when you're awake”

Meanwhile, the 11yo is wearing a tunic shirt and has her hair up in a high pony, singing along to “Christmas Wrapping” by The Waitresses. This is the most 80s thing I’ve seen outside of the 80s.

@jbenjamint It’s a tray! He loves it. What a weirdo.

Had just settled down
To a long winter's nap

@oskay holy smokes

“Slow Horses” is so good.

“Metal Additive Manufacturing” magazine missed a perfectly good opportunity to call itself “Metal Additive Fabrication” magazine.

Faerie's conquest of Albion is almost complete.

*Waylon Jennings voice*
Talk about bad decisions. If it was rainin' soup, ol' John Schneider's bowl would be upside down.

@BunnyMama Thanks! Looks like they moved it to a new server.

@johncarlosbaez @Garrett I remember Marcus meeting with her and asking for something to work on. She just pulled that topic from the famous “problem drawer” in her file cabinet, and told him to get to work.

https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/109552520631559327