Two more birthdays to open up the holiday season

smoooom and catsittingstill both have birthdays today. Both are filkers, both are really lovely people, and both deserve every happiness one's natal day can bring. May they both enjoy just that today.

Today's Meme™: Because I've always been a sucker for rainbows...

Chromatically cadged from about half my f-list...

Your rainbow is shaded blue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is says about you: You are a tranquil person. You appreciate friends who get along with one another. You share hobbies with friends and like trying to fit into their routines.

Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.

Somehow, this doesn't surprise me...nor should it surprise you, either, if you know blue has always been my favorite color (and not due to either my depression or political views, nor just because it happens to be the color of my eyes).

Now that 30 Rock's tree is lit, we can finally start the holiday season

...which means it's time for me to post this again, as I have every year around this time since 2003, I have found this simple little speech, year in and year out, to be the single most truthful, powerful, meaningful statement of what Jesus Christ's birthday is supposed to be about since Linus laid down the Gospel of Luke in A Charlie Brown Christmas (which ABC ran tonight as well). Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue wrote the words, and Bill Murray delivers them in the 1988 Richard Donner-directed "updating" of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Scrooged:
( '..for a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be.' )