six piece nuggets – holiday leftover edition

i kinda had this sixer already written…

…over the holidays and such.

six lil’ bits, leftover from the holidays, that wouldn’t probably be worthy of their own bit unless i REALLY stretched it, so i decided to just make ’em a sixer. like to hear it? hear it go…

rent-a-jew – i usually come up with catchy titles for these little fuckers, but in this case this is ACTUALLY the name of the organization. it’s a non-profit group in germany where apparently they don’t have a lot of jewish folk (i wonder where they all could have gone?) and are, as of late, having issues with antisemitism being on the rise. they send “ordinary jewish people” into german schools and such so people can spend time around a jew and realize they aren’t so bad. i’m sure this will go over MUCH better than that whole “roast a jew” program they had previously…what? too soon?

one little indian – whole lotta bullshit – the passive agressive indian bullshit reared it’s ugly head YET AGAIN in the form of another wave of paypal back and forth for seemingly no reason that ended up delaying my sister’s xmas gift till after new years…but at least that’s now totally behind us. or so i hope.

i was wrong all these years…maybe – we all have old family stories that are passed down to us. one i had (have?) is about the fact my anything-but-italian family eats lasagna at xmas. i was told it was because we always ate so late that one year lasagna leftovers from the italian family next door made it over before the turkey made it out, they were consumed, and a tradition was born. i swear either my mom or grandmother told me this. uncle arthur claims it was because being a family of four, with no real extended family nearby, they would be sick to death of turkey after the weeks of leftovers brought about by thanksgiving so they went another way for xmas…but that doesn’t explain how, of all things, they went the lasagna way versus a less ethnic choice like ham or something. so i guess we’ll never really know…

rip vhs – i swear, one of the things i don’t like about social media is people re-post stuff thinking it’s current without seeing every article out there shows the date it was written. in this case it was one the ufc saw over the holidays that it turns out actually came out in JULY of 2016…but that’s still a shitload later than i would have expected, because that was when a japanese corporation rolled the last fucking VCR off the assembly lines. really? 2016? that’s about twenty years after i thought they stopped! not that i don’t have more than a few VHS tapes still lying around, of course…

old school jackin’ off – sadly i haven’t even cracked mine open:

it came out earlier in the year, but i didn’t see it/think about it until the holidays, when i finally got a bottle of jack daniels in the original 43% alcohol by volume variety. and to think – i could have been drinking it half the year! hopefully it’s still around a while even though their technical anniversary year was 2016…

…and speaking of that wretched year:

another two bite the dust – 2016 so many icons of my world died i did a sixer about it. twice. but in it’s waning days 2016 had to spike the ball and take two more…princess leia (i.e. carrie fisher) and george michael.

now we’ll see how 2017 works out…