Archive for December 2008
we will now come to session
So much has happened during and after the Era of The Hambox Advent Calendar, but I felt curiously restricted from writing a real blog post during that time. Or maybe it was a reaction against NaBloPoMo from the month previous. At any rate, I am relieved that required daily posting of any kind is over.…
Read Morecreak, creeeeeak!
[direct link] Creak, Creeeeeak! That’s the sound of the last two Hambox Advent Windows, a-opening for you! I’m hitting the road, tomorrow at dawn, and I’m not sure if this land of “New Mexico” with its “snow” has heard of internet yet–so I’m not taking any chances. [PS: the links are fixed for 12/23 —…
Read MoreTypical.
So there are a mess of broken links on today’s Weird Winter Blues Advent Calendar Window. Of course there are, as yesterday was just wrong, beginning to end. Forgive me and check back to the calendar after 4pm PST, when I can get home and right the wrongs, and hope that tomorrow will be a…
Read Moreho ho ho hoo boo hoo hooooo
So, I took half a day off work to sit in a courtroom, just to be told by a judge that {in menacing tone} “no, I can’t lower your traffic ticket fine, but I can certainly make it go up.” I don’t really know why taking a late-yellow left hand turn is so bad that…
Read MoreToday’s Hambox Advent Calendar Window: December 22, 2008 — Let’s Watch Stuff!
It’s a fine and cherry-picked assortment of Holiday Bonbons to watch and absorb. Stacy and Roger, in particular, were hard-at-work elves, finding and gifting you with some really one-of-a-kind visual feasts. Because, seriously: with Hanukkah upon us and Christmas a couple days away, are you really gonna get any work done today? I thought not.…
Read MoreGod Jul
There’s been a lot going on, good and bad, in the extended Hambox Empire this month — the Advent Calendar is kind of preempting my normal burblings and announcements and rants n’ raves. But before we go into the latest Advent madness, lemme just interject here with a little picture of perfection: I know, right?…
Read MoreDay 19 Snow Trivia Answers!
Answers to Hambox Advent Calendar Day 19 Snow Day trivia posted here and below. Thanks, Toni! Which of these words describes a “fear of snow?” a) snophobia, b) crystallophobia, c) cryophobia, d) chionophobia The typical snowflake has how many identical “arms?” six Snow that does NOT melt during the summertime forms what geological mass? glacier…
Read MoreBah! BAH!
Today’s Hambox Advent Calendar Window: December 20, 2008 — Suck! FINally, a real life, bah-humbug, Scrooge roars upon the Hambox Advent scene! Oh, our guest writer Cloudy tries, she does, ever so hard, to put a good spin on it (witness the countless Santa-on-lap pics) but let’s face it: sometimes Christmas bites! Why do you…
Read MoreSnow Day!
Today’s Hambox Advent Calendar Window: December 19, 2008 — Snow Doubt About It! Har! Excuse us if we’re loopy, but a snappy cold snap has chacha’d its synchopated way up and down our west coast this week! Snap snap! Toni Tabora-Roberts reports from up in Portland, Oregon, where there appears to be white stuff falling…
Read MoreOmen on my shoulder
Today’s Hambox Advent Calendar Window: December 18, 2008 — Avian Omen! Danny Plotnick recounts the fateful day that a New Year’s miracle flew into his family’s life, and out just as fast. Ntn to mention an appearance by the ever-trembling Hanukah Guinea Pig! Flap on over to the Calendar!
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