How to Ruin the Holidays
By K.A. Laity
Whether you celebrate Christmas, Diwali, Hanukkah, Solstice or Yule, you have an equal opportunity this year to destroy all hopes for any beautiful memories from social gatherings by following a few simple rules.People get too stressed trying to make the holidays perfect: cooking, cleaning, buying, singing, organizing and spend, spend, spending. They put up trees, light menorahs, bake cookies, mull wine and in the process, gain weight, lose hair and empty their bank accounts.
Ruining the holidays can be accomplished with very little effort and almost no spending or preparation. You do not need to make elaborate plans (although a well-thought out scheme can have a spectacular pay-off) and cooking is completely optional, as are fuzzy jumpers with appliqués.
How can you ruin the holidays? To find the answers: http://life.bitchbuzz.com/how-to-ruin-the-holidays.html#ixzz17d1QLUsM
While book trailers have been said to be a waste of time, I can't seem to help wanting to make them. So to amuse myself, here's one for Kit Marlowe's The Mangrove Legacy coming Dec 15th (in case you forgot ;-)
6 comments:
It might be that I find dress up too tightly bound up with the dullest people I've known...perhaps part of my resistance to "Gaga" (well, her bowing to Ciccone didn't help, either)...and clearly Perry is trying to gather up as much pop-culture hitpoints as possible as well (Look, I'm hiphop! I'm club! I'm certainly bi-chic!).
Cute trailer! I think you should send a copy to Bill Crider, since it definitely sounds like his cuppa as well, from those lines.
Me, I like to ruin gatherings and festivals with tiresome declaiming. Works every time (Billy Dee winks).
For Gaga, the decoration is part of the show, but it's not a substitute for it: close your eyes and listen to the hooks. They're irresistible.
Well, feel free to share the trailer with anyone you think will enjoy it. I think it's a funny book -- I was still laughing at the line edits, so that's amazing enough.
You need to compete for Most Boring Person then!
True dullness doesn't compete. That might result in something of passing interest.
Let me explicate...
Excuse me, I just saw someone I need to talk to!
You know, I hear that a lot. Let me enumerate...ouch! Hey!
Let me introduce you to Mohammed, Jugdish, Sidney and Clayton. Grab a seat and make yourselves at home. Don't be shy about helping yourselves to punch and cookies...
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