Today my daughter came home from school and presented me with this work of art she began composing while on her lunch break:
I have never been prouder.
Uncle Sugarfree suggested it needs more bile, however. Happy Holidays!
Today my daughter came home from school and presented me with this work of art she began composing while on her lunch break:
I have never been prouder.
Uncle Sugarfree suggested it needs more bile, however. Happy Holidays!
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184 responses to “De Bello Die Nativitate”
holy shit, is this my first first?
See below for how first is done, son.
lol at son, probably old enough to be your dad
yours has a 3 by it?
also, artwork is cool
This is your true first because it references the content of the article.
Rules are for losers.
Holy crap, your daughter has some artistic talent!
Tho not sure what this has to do with (((them))). Is it the devil horns?
She’s worth 1.5 parentheses.
So she’s half-black, half-thai, and (((half)))??
If her mother’s Jewish she’s (((full))). If only her father’s Jewish she’s (((not))). At least, that’s what I’ve been told.
That’s how it works, yes.
So which is it?
It depends if you’re talking about ethnicity or religion. You aren’t considered religiously a Jew (and thus bound to follow the dictates of the religion) unless your mother was Jewish. But if only your father was Jewish, you still inherit his ethnic heritage.
But if you want the full pedigree
On my side, she’s part Ashkenazi, part northeast Indian (by way of Trinidad), part African (by way of Trinidad), part Scottish (Trini), and part Chinese (Trini).
On her mother’s side, she is most Vietnamese, with Nyaw, Thai, Laotian, and Chinese as well.
See, that’s how you hybrid vigor.
She’s looking to become a digital artist for the video game industry or something like that.
Super quality work ! I barely learned to tie my shoes before graduation. Kids today! Good job, HM and the Mrs and your daughter as well.
We are currently estranged from the former Mrs. Mulatto, who, to be honest, had very little use for her when she was around to begin with.
I’m in the process of upgrading however, so it worked out for me.
Upgrade… hot Singapore chick?
Cambodian-Chinese
?
Very, very sorry to hear the former; very pleased to hear the latter.
Very much this.
So you’re getting a bigger backyard?
I never leave my bunker if I can help it.
Huh. Small world.
Bunker seen here
Jeeze, what sort of html fuckery has happened here?
Beyond the quality of the drawing, there’s some deeper stuff going on here. The angel / demon motif; contrasting the commercial and spiritual nature of Christmas?
How old is she? That is some super work.
Also, entrails need more entrail.
13 going on 31.
I’m seriously impressed.
I especially like the polio leg braces.
I couldn’t tell if they were leg braces or garters.
Sometimes it’s best not to know.
Is this the part where we do the “$20” bit?
That’s great. It ain’t no banana taped to a wall, but it’s great work nonetheless.
::thunderous applause::
Take a bow on that one, blackjack.
Oh, yeah missed the entrails. Some pretty dark stuff. Goya would be proud.
Very nice, HM. I can see how you’re a proud papa.
Thank you.
Needs more “man & fish love”
Link please- I dont think Mojo has had the pleasure
I’m skeert.
Heh.
You could be referring to so many things.
Oh, you know what I mean.
The video of the guy getting a blowjob from a trout or the picture of the guy sleeping with a giant goldfish?
Giant goldfish movie. Or either- I doubt she’s seen them.
Hasn’t seen them, like most sensible people.
The one where the fish comes back and knocks on his door. It was a brilliant, tho crude, allegory for contemporary race relations. *sniffs beer*
“impudent, but with a dash of impertinence”
Uhhhhhh……
Don’t tell me you never saw the video I found of the dude having sex with his pet snake.
“found”
Tres thinks I’m sensible. Let’s not disabuse him of this notion, shall we?
I just assumed it was a Floridian who had run into the snake in the everglades on a meth bender and got married. Now you’ve ruined the cruising fantasy.
Best not to click whatever link gets posted. Unless you don’t want to sleep for a week.
Q’s links are merely NSFW.
HM’s links are primordially disturbing.
OTOH, HM did link this, and I am eternally grateful.
It’s a risk I might take.
I resist being typecast.
Traditional Christmas… feasting on St Stevens..
And Xmas music
https://youtu.be/sZUglqyF4cw
If I were on Name That Tune, I’d have buzzed in after 4 notes and gotten it totally wrong.
It’s adorable! Is the garland supposed to be intestines?
A comment that will only be seen on Glibertarians.com.
Or http://www.butchersonly.com
An underserved market apparently.
I see a new venture, a la Farmers Only, with heavy usage of footage from “So I Married An Axe Murderer” mixed in.
Yes.
May I perhaps suggest some extracted eyeballs as globe ornaments for the tree? Not to make every ornament a dismembered body part, but just one or two for an additional easter egg.
Fuck off, Tulpa
We are all Tulpa; however, she is a MYTH Tulpa!
I suppose I should be ashamed that this is what came to mind.
Happily, I am utterly lacking in shame.
…and a soul. ???
GT, speaking of people having no souls, have you read this author?
Very intriguing concept and a delightful voice.
One less thing I have to worry about saving.
@Moje – Oooh! I have not, but that looks like big fun! Thanks!
I caution you, though, that delightful voice gets tedious if you glom. So don’t do that. I could only make it three books in before I had to take a break.
I suddenly don’t mind being called Tulpa for like the 5th time, just for that video clip.
Duly noted! I have SOOOO much reading to catch up on. Fortunately, it’s a long way to St. L for Christmas, and Mr. GT usually does most/all of the driving.
Mojeaux – I’ve read most of Gail Carriger’s books! Agreed on both concept and voice. She also put out a YA series starting with Etiquette and Espionage that I really enjoyed.
LG, she also has The Custard Protocol series, which I assume is Alexia’s daughter.
I think I read the first of the Custard Protocol books, and then was distracted by a shiny new series.
::grooms goatee::
/hey, you said it…
(Mmmmmm! Goatees!)
Did….did you have that pic at the ready??
I DDG’d it – very quickly.
Suuuure you did….. 😉
I have other pictures at the ready – for me.
GT’s “secret room”??
Nice, but too many girls for my particular taste.
NN, LDD!
That’s a good drawing. The finger at the bottom looks almost lifelike, but doesn’t really fit with the rest of the picture.
Speaking of more entrails…..
https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/images_blogs/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/14/jesus_supper_zombie.jpg
Somewhere, da Vinci is snickering.
This is taking transubstantiation to another level
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one really trying to win this war.
Hey. It’s the holiday season. Try to look up.
Are you sitting in the trench while your comrades sing carols with the enemy?
Those don’t look like black bodies, you’re suppressing her! You wacist!
HM,
I am interested in how your daughter described/identified what she has drawn thus far, and what else she might add (and why).
Easterly is really Preet. Don’t fall for it.
I’ll ask her tomorrow. She just said “look at what I drew at lunch!” and I said “Cool!”
“I’ll ask her tomorrow. She just said ‘look at what I drew at lunch!’ and I said ‘Cool!’”
Clearly you remember me from previous written conversations, HM.
One of the things that I found interesting is that her use of sharp angles in the tree itself and the tree stand reminded me of adult artists that I recall from at least the time of my youth. Additionally, the shading of the tree is, in my non-artistic opinion, very well done. I hope that you encourage her to further develop what I consider a natural talent with regards to drawing.
I was good at draring when I was 13; but now I’ve been reduced to what you see in the cartoons. Damn my decrepit hands.
Myers was so funny but that was not his best recurring skit. This on the other hand….
https://youtu.be/s86AAjLLRKo
I never cared for Wayne’s World – there, I said it.
Duly noted you monster.
MikeS WTF are you? If anyone would appreciate that clip it’s you.
Chopped liver, here??
Sorry my good man. I lost track of time. I assumed you were still asleep.
pffft–I wish ?
/sleep; not your time keeping
Don’t be jelly.
YOU’RE NOT MY MOM!
Tell her I said “hi”
shit.
I own this.
?
It was a more innocent time.
Good god, I remember thinking this Mike Myers shit was funny. What the hell was wrong with me.
We didn’t have the Internet.
You were a child? That’s my excuse.
People lost their shit this morning when Neil Gorsuch said “Merry Christmas” on Fox News. I think the war on Christmas talking point is silly, but someone really should tell a lot of white progressives that there isn’t a war on Christmas
I think my kid just declared it.
It’s a good picture
So, now we have Christmas Horror Theatre to compete with Subaru Horror Theatre?
HM is an unreliable poster though, if you catch my drift, not like that clean cut SF.
Ok, but who needs Thicc Thursdays when you have Megan Thee Stallion?
Megan Thee Stallion
I’m not googling that.
I misread that as Megan Three Stallion at first and figured it was some of your usual fucked-up Asian content.
Neigh.
Is it like a pre-new years resolution for all these Tulpae to announce themselves? Or is it a CIA DDOS attack? *chews more tinfoil*
It’s likely similar to the increase in alcohol consumption around the holidays. Or maybe depression?
Chicken or egg?
Zactly.
“*chews more tinfoil*”
Two links.
The first is in keeping with kinnath’s link that (s)he posted to a song from yesterday, and the second is from a Weird Al video.
Love the Weird Al!
Today, glibertarians.com has been spawning plot bunnies like, well, bunnies.
Earlier this morning, my brother decided that what the church should do with all its billions is to build a theme park based on the gospel of the eternities, premortal existence, war in heaven, becoming gods, whatnot. Normal Christian stuff.
*opens Word*
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_Santa_(theme_park)
Buddhism beat you to it.
Not quite what I was expecting. Your daughter’s lovely drawing put me off my guard and I made the mistake of clicing an HM link
Siri now has an Indian voice available. It’s not quite the accent one thinks of as Indian.
Hank Azaria?
Wasn’t thinking quite that exaggerated, but it’s not even Shikha Dalmia accented.
Does it complain about Modi, Jindal and Trump?
not even Shikha Dalmia accented
Didn’t they retire Apu?
I heard they unretired him, but it’s new Simpsons, so… meh.
That joke about being on the air until it loses profitability was the most prophetic line on the show.
“Kindly do the needful and repeat your query?”
So Rise of Skywalker could be a huge dumpster fire, even more then The Last Jedi!
Did Henry Selick draw this?
My kid did have a role in the local youth theater’s production of James and the Giant Peach, if that counts.
Does your kid like Hud?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Neal
Australian health officials warn that two drinks a day is now too much, recommend no more than 1.4.
I recommend 14 also.
Heh, heh. That reminded me of my old Irish grandma years ago before she died. We came over for dinner one night and she told us about the amazing pig race that happened at the county fair the day before. She told us the pigs were very fast ones, that they reached speeds of 140 miles per hour. We all laughed our asses off at the thought and told her she had the story wrong, there were no pigs that fast, even if they knew they were getting made into bacon. No, she had the story right. So she got the SF Chronicle from the day before out and started reading about the pig race. “The pigs were clocked at speeds up to 141 mph.” Wait a second grandma, lemme see that paper. Of course it was 14.1 mph. We all got a kick out of that.
I thought legal weed was supposed to destroy all public health meddling…
Thing about legal weed is, it make people forget stuff.
Ah so that explains pot legalization…
“It’s 10 years since our last review of the guidelines and we now know more about the effects of alcohol. We know that alcohol continues to have significant direct health consequences for many Australians.”
Like anyone thought they’d come out recommending people drink more, or even as much.
Next up: health officials recommend classifying alcohol as a tobacco product.
When you drink beer from an oil can, 2 might be a lot.
Not for me, but…
That’s not a beer, THIS is a beer!
What effing busybodies. Don’t they have some brush fires going on that they can sling those parasites into?
And their benchmark is keeping your chances of succumbing to an alcohol-related death (disease ***or accident***) to under one in one hundred. I’m no statistician, granted, but that seems like terribly sketchy logic.
If it saves just two livers….
You have a 1 in 1 hundred chance of getting arrested for driving while blind.
Or losing your legs to acid.
Today is the two year anniversary of the end of net neutrality. Let us all survey the utter wreckage that the internet has become in that time, much as predicted by the left. It’s amazing how continue to predict the future.
AND, there’s still money in politics.
It’s a good thing Tom! and Mike! are working to put a stop to that.
The big thing is income inequality. How can we sleep knowing there’s people richer than us?
I miss the internet. May doG have mercy on its soul.
RIP Merrick Garland
RIP the Internet.
Apropos of nothing.
Amazing voice.
Love the pic. Seriously, show your daughter this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PGcOEkl1coU
So the House leadership has drafted two articles of impeachment:
1) Abuse of Power
2) Obstruction of Congress
How many will pass?
I am thinking only the first. The second looks like a cover for Dems in GOP leaning areas. The matter has not yet reached the Supreme Court so Trump has not obstructed anything.
Pelosi needs a unified party with only a few stray cats to pass the first. The second is designed to give her vulnerable members a chance to say, “I WAS open minded and did not vote in favor of the unresolved issue.” I don’t think it will sell too well back in those districts but 11 months is a political eternity.
Am I over thinking this?
Yes. Both articles will pass on a straight party vote.
Unless he looses his mind, or is threatened with loosing his life, Peterson (D, MN) will vote Nay. Yeah, big deal, but it’ll give the Repubs a “bi-partisan” opposition, for whatever the hell that’s worth.
Rhywun is correct. Perhaps a few Dems will vote no on one or both but only Dems (and Justin Amash) will vote “Yea.” Both articles of impeachment will pass.
Oh good. Amash can provide the bipartisan fig leaf in favor.
Anyone get into the new season of The Expanse yet?
Or should I shut up and read earlier postings?
I don’t have Prime. Hoping they’ll release it on BluRay some day.
NEW THREAD ALERT!!!
Well I can’t just skip that wall of text and ask about The Expanse on that thread, now can I?
That would be churlish.
Your courtesy is noted and appreciated.
Yes it would.