While Christmas card imagery features often snow, most people here in Canada would consider the forecasted temperature for Bethlehem rather springlike (10 degrees C / 50 degrees F) and call the forecast for my hometown of Manila almost summery (26 degrees C / 78 degrees F). The Christmas day temperature in Honolulu is expected to [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2005
Dec
21
2005
Accordion Guy Advent Calendar, Day Twenty-One: Dar Williams’ "The Christians and the Pagans"
Cut my metaphorical heart open, and you’ll find many things: Wendy,
chocolate, computers, bacchanalia, bare-bum spankings on the fire
esca…okay, scratch that one. But among those things near and dear to
me are the wayward children of the wayward African child known as the
blues scale: jazz, pop and [...]
Dec
20
2005
Seen at the Pacific Mall
Up in the northeast outskirts of Accordion City is the Pacific Mall, which proudly declares itself “North America’s Largest Indoor Asian Mall”. If you’re looking for good food, anime and Hong Kong cinema DVDs, cell phone accessories, a hair salon that can spike your hair properly, every known flavour of Pocky and some decent competition [...]
Dec
20
2005
Accordion Guy Advent Calendar, Day Twenty: My Two Favourite Comics on the Subject
Click the comics to see them at full size.
Dec
19
2005
"The Chappelle Theory"
I love Chappelle’s Show and I also love a good conspiracy theory, so I couldn’t help but enjoy reading The Chappelle Theory.
Its anonymous author claims to be a retired PR executive who claims to
have many “contacts closely related to the individuals involved”,
allowing him or her to “to [...]
Dec
19
2005
Accordion Guy Advent Calendar, Day Nineteen: The Mariner’s Revenge Song
In my opinion, one of the best albums of the year is one you may not have heard of: Picaresque by The Decemberists, released in May of this year. The Decemberists, if you haven’t heard of them, write some brainy-yet-catchy indie pop with a dark sense of humour, with their subject matter often set [...]
Dec
19
2005
Regular Posts (and the Advent Calendar) Resume Later Today
As you can see, I’ve been busy…
…but regular posting, as well as all the back-posts to the Advent Calendar, will resume later today.
Dec
19
2005
Accordion Guy Advent Calendar, Day Eighteen: The Spirit of Christmas
Has it already been ten years?!
Ten
years ago, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, two film students from the
University of Colorado, were commissioned to make an animated short
that would be used as a video Christmas card to be sent to various
Hollywood types. Parker and Stone used [...]
Dec
18
2005
Accordion Guy Advent Calendar, Day Seventeen: Some Ghosts from Christmases Past
For today’s Advent Calendar goodie, I thought I’d dip into the vault and dig up some of my favourite entries from Christmases past. They are:
The Best Christmas Present Ever (2002): A heart-warming, if crotch-scratching tale in which our hero gets a little refresher course on the true meaning of Christmas. It’s not likely to ever [...]
Dec
17
2005
Accordion Guy Advent Calendar, Day Sixteen: Fast Food
Perhaps you’ve already heard this little bit of trivia, but in case you haven’t, let me the one to tell you: many people in Japan associate Christmas with things that we’d expect, such as decorations and gifts, but also with things that we wouldn’t expect, such as romantic getaways to love hotels and a [...]
