cats lurking in the Christmas foliage #caturday

A few years ago I decided I wanted to get some LED Christmas lights that looked like old school incandescent ones. Y'know, to be eco-friendly and stuff. Also I wanted to prevent our cats from touching hot bulbs in the windows. Thanks to our mom, we now have a set of Tru-Tone lights.

My personal Christmas aesthetic is "charmingly awkward"

The latest addition to my collection. It's a cheap, crummy-looking thing tbh, but it's replacing one from my childhood that had its jaw broken beyond repair a long, long time ago, so it has sentimental value. It's actually somewhat nicer than the original, but I still had to reattach its arm.

My nutcracker collection, part 1 (most photos from 2020) #nutcrackers #nutcracker #christmas #christmasdecorations #santaclaus #drosselmeyer

ginger ale #caturday

I like panettone, but I'll always resent it for replacing fruitcake in the minds of grocery stores everywhere. And yes, I unironically love fruitcake.

A Blue Jay giving a mid-flight glance over his/her shoulder while showing those beautiful blue feathers.

Can you imagine the absolute mayhem these two would cause together? #themask #jumanji

The Haunted Toy Box is also available on YouTube, if that's your preferred platform www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbeJ... #toys #music #kidcore #spooky

RIP ClassicHolidayRadio . com, an online radio station that played nothing but 1940s-1970s Christmas music, with all the best-known tracks I'd grown up with plus deep cuts, and none of the intrusive newer stuff. It disappeared sometime after 2017 and I still miss it. web.archive.org/web/20191202...

Whoa, this vintage Star Trek pinball machine has nixie tube numbers for the scoreboard!! 🕹️😃🖖🏻💜👍🏻

Christmas record and comic book from 1948 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToZr...

#hourly #wah https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/wahs/photo_224@25-12-2019_09-30-07.jpg

I've managed to collect a few animation cels from the classic Pebbles Cereal Christmas commercial, which was a huge part of my childhood. Here's another one, which captures Barney right when he was delivering his famous line, "Ho ho ho, I'm hu-hu-hungry!"

I'm starting to think that the reason good people suffer is so they can BE good, and it's why they have empathy. Because some of the sickest, most unfeeling people with the darkest senses of humor are people who are unfairly privileged, and have never really had anything bad happen to them.

My latest album. You've brought home a bunch of old toys from an antique store, but now you're not so sure if it was a good idea. iantavishstone.bandcamp.com/album/the-ha... #toys #music #kidcore #spooky

Classic literature (more Zootopia comic references)

Mortimer Mouse looks great in cheesy Christmas sweaters (2010)

This upload of the Jack Benny show had exactly 39 views and I kinda hated to click on it

Must be nice having enough money to buy ANY of the music you listen to.

I saw the trailer for the latest SpongeBob movie the other day and I'm aghast by how thoroughly disgusting it was. Body horror? Crotch jokes? What is this, a John K cartoon? I'm honestly losing respect for Tom Kenny and the rest. Do they actually *enjoy* saying these things?

Here's one of my favorite Christmas albums, all in a jangle/power/alt pop style, which is also a good alternative to the usual songs. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Monkees were featured in the Christmas issue of Ladies Home Journal in 1967! 🎄🎄🎄🎄 #mickydolenz #davyjones #michaelnesmith #petertork

This comic features an entirely new mayor by the name of Berenice Baribal. One can only assume that in 2022 they hadn't created Mayor Winddancer yet, but it does pose the problem of figuring out where these comics fit into movie canon, if at all. I dunno, maybe Zootopia has an election once a year?

Paddle Jump 'Felix The Cat' NES

Here's our second Christmas album, this time with all original tunes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AXj...

Now they're making a Simpsons reference! This comic is full of surprises...

Cover by Walt Kelly.

Dear Christmas pop song writers: Stop trying to rewrite "All I Want For Christmas is You", with the shuffle rhythm and the piano triplets and the vaguely Phil Spector-ish production. You just can't match how good that song is, so don't even try.

Katie's default expression is "confused" Here she doesn't understand why she can't sit on the Christmas presents when she can sit on all the other boxes (2023) #cats #blackcat #blackcats #cat #pets

Considering Zootopia 2 takes place a mere week after the first, most if not all of the comics (and the Crime Files game) would have to happen some time afterward despite being published years earlier.

A cute Christmas mouse... and a Christmas rat (who may also be cute depending on your point of view) (2010)

Funny how these two hot sauces have extremely similar ingredients, but they're used for very different styles of cuisine

Nutmeg ginger apple snaps inspired by Fantastic Mr. Fox We used this recipe, but we added extra ginger, mace, and crushed apple chips to give it an apple-y flavor throughout. theliveinkitchen.com/lolas-third-...

I've never heard of an employee being impatient with a client before "Hurry up and approve my work! I haven't got all day!" I exaggerate, but you see my point I have a life outside of checking my email

Just stumbled on a fan-made TTRPG based on Care Bears, and apparently the backstory is that it's an alternate timeline that occurred after all the love and good vibes of Woodstock summoned them to Earth, and now there's no wars and very little suffering I kinda wanna live in that timeline honestly

One of many misconceptions about Gen Y/Millennials is the term "millennial gray", which is completely absurd to me considering the actual interior design styles I'm sure most of us grew up with and thought looked cool

For some reason I recently started feeling nostalgic for apple chips, and I'm not sure why. Never had 'em very often, but I just started craving them. These are very good:

Swing waltzes are underrated

It's not spooky season anymore except inside my mind www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX1X...

If Vance is such a calculating, opportunistic vulture like so many think he is, lying in wait to replace Trump as president, why doesn't he get it over with?

Evidently some consider starving to death a worse fate than coughing your lungs out, if grocery prices are somehow more rage-inducing than millions dying of Covid

kismus

I'm pretty sure most of what I know about Megaman comes from Bob & George

Cover by John Carey and Norm McGary.

An older album, but new to YouTube. I adore circuses and clowns, including the music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mnw... #circus #circuses #clown #clowns

There have been so many times when we've installed a program/app and it simply doesn't work no matter how hard we try. It's baffling. Like, is our computer weird somehow? Is the app badly coded? Why does no one else have the same problem? Is it some elaborate prank?