At least Mariah Carey’s All I want for Christmas is You sounds like they put effort into making it. For the ultimate lazy phoned-in Christmas song that’s popular only because of the artist’s fame, you want Paul McCartney’s Wonderful Christmastime.
Author: Joey deVilla
It’s September 9th: International Box Wine Day!
You may think of box wine — or as I like to call it, Cardboardeaux — as cheap, terrible and something you had at parties in your university years to feel more grown-up, but:
- Box wine is more environmentally friendly than bottled wine.:
- Producing cardboard uses less energy than producing glass.
- Cardboard is easier to recycle than glass.
- Transporting box wine uses less energy and effort than bottled wine.
- Box wine has also improved in leaps and bounds:
Tweet of the day

I’m sprucing up my home office, starting with a little wall decor, as you can see in the photo above. I’m now working under the watchful eye — and arms — of “El Pulpo” (Spanish for “the octopus”).
Here’s a closer look at El Pulpo:

El Pulpo is a creation of a local artist, Maykel Medina, who creates gorgeous ocean- and seaside-themed art, all of which you can find at his gallery, Maykel Fine Art, in St. Pete:

If you like beach themes and artwork you’re not going to find anywhere else, contact Maykel (the gallery is by appointment only)!
He’s got a lot of gorgeous stuff, and he was very friendly and helpful, making sure that El Pulpo was safely wrapped up for us to take it home. I’m sure that El Pulpo won’t be our last purchase there.


Here’s your regular reminder that to at least double-check your work, or better yet, have an automated assistant or human editor do it. They could catch things that you might have missed.
DipShantis logic

- Not really a governor, but an authoritarian performance artist for an audience of one (who “fucking hates” him)
- Not really smart, but has that canny cleverness of a squirrel at an amusement park enticing visitors to feed him
- Has the next best thing to a personality: a set of responses to specific stimuli
- Less worried about public health because there are underfed kids to starve and transgender kids to stop from playing sports


