22 days into the new year

… and the last of Christmas 2011 is packed away. The cats don’t know what to do with all the free space in front of the door wall. It’ll soon be occupied by the dining table and they’ll once again have something to hide under, but it won’t be as cozy as the Christmas tree . . . → Read More: 22 days into the new year

You know you’re getting older when your pragmatism overrides your sentimentality.

Part of what the neighbors had to put up with this year.

Part of what the neighbors had to put up with this year.

I did something today that I always hate doing and yet I do it every year: I took down the outside Christmas decorations.

I’m not much of a romantic, but I am very, very sentimental. Part of the reason I’m a huge . . . → Read More: You know you’re getting older when your pragmatism overrides your sentimentality.

An answer to the question “How do Atheist families celebrate Christmas?”

atheists-Christmas-party

The following answer is totally and unequivocally true:

A collection of post-Christmas tweets that will leave you despairing for the human race.

Click to embiggen if you can handle whiny, entitled morons.

There are some folks in this would that you just can’t make happy no matter what you do for them or what you give them. Take, for example, this bunch of numbnuts bitching about not getting an iPhone, iPad, or car for Christmas:

Click to embiggen if you can handle whiny, entitled morons.

I . . . → Read More: A collection of post-Christmas tweets that will leave you despairing for the human race.

A very Merry SEB Christmas to you and yours.

Pic of Melvin in a Santa hat.

It’s been a busy weekend with the family so we’re going with our annual message from the Official SEB Cat, Melvin, who says:

What do you get when you combine cute puppies and Christmas?

You get the following dangerously cute video clip:

Almost makes me want to get a puppy. Almost.

Via ***Dave Does The Blog.

And now “The Nutcracker” as sung by disembodied flying heads.

Never say we aren’t a classy joint around here:

A Christmas Carol with the Flying Spaghetti Monster in it?

A Christmas Carol with the Flying Spaghetti Monster in it?

I am SO there! Haven’t watch this yet, but I will be once I get home today. #google+ #Christmas #FSM

CC-licensed, Dickens-based, Pastifarian Christmas Carol kids’ special

Robbo sez,

Puppets, songs, the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Charles Dickens – all that and more are in . . . → Read More: A Christmas Carol with the Flying Spaghetti Monster in it?

“To XMAS and Beyond!” by The Thinking Atheist.

The Thinking Atheist does a short video on the history of Christmas:

I’m always amused when Christians ask me why I celebrate Christmas. Given how much of it has nothing to do with Christ the real question is why they celebrate it.

How to gift wrap a cat for Christmas.

I’m terrible at wrapping gifts which is why I leave that task to my wife most of the time because she’s awesome at it. When I wrap a gift it looks like it was done by a bunch of drunken retarded monkeys who were handed paper, tape, scissors and given no instruction in the art . . . → Read More: How to gift wrap a cat for Christmas.