Season’s Greetings

Season’s Greetings

Hello, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Season’s Greetings! Hug your loved ones. Screw it… hug your enemies, too, and turn ’em into loved ones. All the best, The Ogatas
The Importance of Giving

The Importance of Giving

Flashback to November 1979. I was a lonely fat kid with no friends. Sure, little has changed since then, except I’m old now. And married. But let’s focus on this dream sequence. CUE THE HARP AND BLUR I desperately circled page 52 in the Sears catalog and...
A Family Christmas Tradition

A Family Christmas Tradition

Merry Christmas to you all. Every year we dress as dogs and gather around a Snow Lazarus with our living dogs to summon the spirit of our beloved dead dog from the grave. It’s a family tradition! What are some of your traditions?
The End of The World

The End of The World

There is a certain set of the population who think that the Mayan Calendar predicts the end of the world on December 21, 2012. This is the set known as “idiots.” Moreover, there is a subset of this set of the population who are stockpiling supplies such as...
A Very PC Christmas

A Very PC Christmas

Is the spirit of Christmas dead? “Merry Christmas, everybody!” That’s what I was going to say. But non-Christians get offended. “Happy Holidays!” was going to be next. But etymologically, “holiday” derives from the old English...