Boxing snow

[imomus]

I looked out of my window this morning to see thick, and steadily falling, snow blanketing Berlin.



Which would be fine and picturesque, except that today really is "boxing day" for me: I'm shipping boxes into storage and will now be slithering all over the road in the van. I blame global warming.

Comments

[pintele.livejournal.com]

Eee! I was about to comment on your lovely pants, but then I noticed the brown animal with the cheeky expression lurking in both photos. So, I think my comment will be about him instead. He looks like he's desperate to get outside and examine the snow. I'd be all for it if it looked like he had arms or legs, but it doesn't look that way, so I'd warn against it.

...this is what happens when you wake up at 5.30am and have no snow to show for it.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

More adventures of the small straw cat here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/155845.html). As you can see, I was somewhat exaggerating when I said my rabbit "ripped him to shreds". I mean, he was already shreds, being made of straw.

By the way, if I weren't moving boxes today I'd be reliving my childhoos with BBC Radio 7's Narnia Day (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listings/). Quite partial to that stuff...

[dreadberry.livejournal.com]

the small cat was what i honed in on too! what a cutie...i really need to take more photos that include my ragged menagerie.

hope the boxing drive went safely!

[pinwheelcloud.livejournal.com]

beautiful, i cannot wait to live in Berlin.

[reggie-c-king.livejournal.com]

I only noticed the straw cat in the first photo and thought it was a huge wicker effigy out on the pavement.

[thunderbox.livejournal.com]

For a moment I imagined I could see Edward Woodward's face peering out through a gap in the straw, too.

[300letters.livejournal.com]

You can't postpone and turn 'boxing day' into 'snowball day?' There are not many snowball pirates left you know.

[sakuraamplifier.livejournal.com]

Regardless, I'm jealous. We never get substantial snow in December where I live. Only in January and February when I'm not in the mood for it anymore. I hope you find time to enjoy it.

[nomorepolitics.livejournal.com]

Merry Christmas Momus,

I've read here that you're a pagan, but I don't know if that's true.

Anyhow, Christmas, and especially the Christmas tree, originates from a pagan holiday, that was only Christianized and named as such when the Romans invaded England. So Merry Christmas to you, too; it means something completely different to... some of us, anyway!

[isomeme.livejournal.com]

Pretty much everybody everywhere has celebrated the winter solstice. It's such a natural -- "Hey, guys, check it out -- the sun is turning back toward us, so we probably won't all freeze and starve. Let's have a party!"

Figuring out who borrowed what particular symbols and traditions from whom is interesting, but in the end it's just a big messy multi-culti return-of-the-light festival, and I like it that way.

[tassellrealm.livejournal.com]

Festivals are a good idea.

Festivals, Carnivals, and piss-ups.

I tend to celebrate Christmas in honour of my wonderful Sixties childhood.

[nomorepolitics.livejournal.com]

ditto

[cheapsurrealist.livejournal.com]

Happy Festivus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus) to one and all!

[nomorepolitics.livejournal.com]

Yes, definitely, it's difficult to pinpoint where these festivals come from.

Christmas remains one of the few festivals we have left; it's relatively not very exciting, since for most of us it's based on shopping a lot. I remember when my parents took me to join gypsies in their festivals when I was a child. Now those were real carnivals.

Nothing since has come close to being so exciting. The less "civilized" cultures really know how to throw a party and celebrate. I have no pagan beliefs, but I'm willing to pretend just to go along for the ride.

[georgesdelatour.livejournal.com]

We must be damaging the greenhouse effect.

[akabe.livejournal.com]

what will happen to the rabbitt ???? |-(

[imomus.livejournal.com]

He was delicious with mint sauce!

No, I took him round last night to my friend Eric's place, and Eric gave him to his wife's sister to look after until I'm back. He'll be living just round the corner from where he used to live, and eating food from the same pet shop. We considered shipping him to Japan, but a 10 hour flight and three days of quarantine seemed a bit stressful.

Jinx!

[svenskasfinx.livejournal.com]

that was what I wanted to ask. Once I heard about this move, I couldn't help but think, what was to happen to the rabbit...(I had a few rabbits once.. they do get very very attached)

[peacockpunk.livejournal.com]

Snow?? How rude. Ye dirty fucker.

Merry Christmas, one and all! North Wales is cold, foggy, and resiliant to snow.

Ode to Momus

[(Anonymous)]

Friends, I do not presume to laud before landing,
But this motherfucker is
about to
i mean
you catch his sweet tangerine
lick drip
street lights
smooth and blown at night
under the moon moon blossom drip hipped
to the hot shit butch Athene
arche plugged bounce bounce leme hear you say
good true and beautiful this man is
utopian, poet, Lover
who knows the world is nice enough
to transmute his soul into
the beating pea'd skull
of the japanese foetus

[rober-dyeatribe.livejournal.com]

i don't know how you manage to drive using one eye. i briefly tried it and it was really really difficult.
maybe you should drive a mercedes with that three pointed star perched on the bonnet. you could use it as a guide and aim the vehicle down the street. i'm sure you probably do.
and i think you like cars too, or perhaps romancing about them as you have done many times in your songs. maserati, lexus, land rovers and opels have all made impressions on you.

seasons greetings to all. and i urge you to take up carrom if you're good a flicking. it won't take much to reach the world championships in hamburg each year.

Robert Dye

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Driving with two eyes is over-rated -- how are you supposed to make sense of two different pictures, taken from two different angles? Dangerous stuff at 100 kph!

As for cars in my songs, it's always the baddies who drive them. The Maserati in "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" is driven by a sexual rival to the narrator, the Opel belongs to the fiendish Dooh Nibor, Robin Hood's nemesis.

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

well egads aint you dashing

peppermill

[profundity-loaf.livejournal.com]

hi momus,

thought i might contact you here... i have this project coming up i'd love for you to be part of, it's sort of like this... peppermillrecords.com, projects page, "30 Days"... but this will be less music and more plot, sort of short audiofilms that one artist passes on to the next, 10 sections altogether, you'd have a week to do your part. it should be interesting how the story evolves.

i can tell you lots more if it sounds at all appealing, maybe give me a shout at info@peppermillrecords.com and i'll fill you in on who else will be involved. i'd put you next to someone complimentary.

keep doing what you do.

pk