Standard Mischief

I love reading Claire Wolfe. The money quote here really struck a chord with me. You can click on the quote if you want to read the entire post.

I love Thanksgiving. It’s my favorite of all holidays. No artificial good cheer. No Christian facades pasted over pagan revels. No endless shopping. Just being with those you love and spending time in peaceful gratitude.

RAmen to that, Claire!

We do a “secret Santa” scenario with the siblings, so that tends to keep down on the shopping blitz bliss during this holiday season. I also have a current opening for my new SO, and because of that, there’s another holiday gift decision/stressful purchase that I do not get to endure enjoy.

Everyone else? Well I’m probably going to teach myself the fine art of homemade cheesecake baking. Handmade gifts for Christmas := my Anti-commercialism.

By the way, I’d be remiss if I did not link to Buy Nothing Day.

(I love this logo. It was taken (not hotlinked) from adbusters.org. Note the leet speakage in the barcode, a nice touch.)

My after-Thanksgiving tradition is actually to go dumpster-diving, but I slept in. I usually like to go in the early AM. You get daylight and it’s after the drunks and troublemakers have passed out, but before most everyone else has woken up. Perhaps tomorrow.

I actually am a lot more discriminating on what I decide to pick-up nowadays, but there’s little that tops the thrill of plucking out that engine-stand out of the dumpster just before you actually needed to go buy one, or the thrill of finding discarded live ammunition.