AND A HAPPY BOXING DAY!!

...or Feast of St. Stephen. whichever you prefer.

i have to teach a lesson tomorrow all about Holiday Traditions around the World. so i spent all last night and this morning (in fact i should still be doing it as i type) researching winter holiday traditions of different countries and religions. there are a lot more than i had previously thought! and i FINALLY know where Kwanzaa comes from!! ...but if i tell you the Panthers might come a knockin`... eep.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

...that is all...

oh yeah...

Happy Winter Solstice!!

... whatever the hell that means.

how is this for a new post-modern definition of irony? i, a young
and healthy Canadian boy, am planning to take my very first
Snowboarding trip next week in Japan. and (get this) i will be taught
to snowboard by (wait for it) A MEXICAN!!! *sigh* the world is a
strange and wonderful place... except for crappy Christmas Trance
re-mixes, which seem to exist in abundance here in JapanLand.
weird.

i blog?!

so it was brought to my attention recently that i have a blog. this is news to me! apparently sometime back in August i was drunk and bored created a blog. then i promptly fell asleep and forgot all about it through the fog of hangover. at least this is what i am piecing together from blurry fragments of computer log, memory, and empirical evidence (the last of which is how i know it happened in August).

so now, feeling like a rockstar who is faced with the results of a paternity test (Mr. Rossdale, i`m looking in your direction), i must now take responsibility for myself and nurture and care for and blah blah blah.... or delete the damn thing. but since you`re reading this that obviously hasn`t happened (unless you live in a Twighlight Zone episode). any guesses as to how long this`ll last? i don`t tend to spend more than 30 minutes in front of the puter on any given day.

so word to "Word." be what it may. place your bets....

Word.

....and the word spread across the face of the void, giving shape to the smoke of chaos and bringing light to where there was only darkness. word.