"Christmas In Dixie... 2010"

It's cold here this morning... the promise of snow scooted north of us... 


GirlShoes and Heff Bert came up for Christmas, but he had to work last night... so I gave them their presents last afternoon.... BoyShoes was here as well... So "Christmas Present"  was over before it had a chance to get started...


That gave way too much time to dwell on 'Christmases Past'... I did take some flowers to the cemetery last afternoon and visited with my Mom and Dad... Left a small remembrance for Barry... and offered a prayer up for Robert...


These are the last two Christmas songs I will post for 2010...  


I love them both... not really Christmas standards by the measurement of how one would define 'standards'... but I love them... these are the two I most prefer to hear...


What a great song this is... I was surprised to find a 'live' version of it...

I shall never forget the Christmases spent as a child with my parents... I shall never forget the Christmases spent with my children when they were small... 

Merry Christmas

From

The Mississippi Delta...

Happy Holidays...

~Jim~

"Merry Zombie Christmas..."

Merry Christmas...

You are probably thinking... It's the Christmas Season...

WTF is up with this Zombie Shiznit?!?!

Well... The truth of the Matter is that Zombies are a 24/7, all-year issue...

If Zombies come a tap, tap, tapping on your door this Christmas season, you will be glad you watched this...

Merry Christmas...

~shoes~

"Black Shoes Christmas..."

I wonder what the significance of having Blue Balls on my Christmas Tree would be this year??





If you like South Park, you also might like THIS... Kitty Kitty...

~shoes~

"Wise Old Jewish Man..."

Having heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time, a female CNN journalist went to check out the story.   She went to the Wall and there he was, walking slowly up to the holy site.

She watched him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave, using a cane and moving very slowly, she approached him for an interview.

"Pardon me, sir, I'm Rebecca Smith from CNN. What's your name?

"Morris Feinberg," he replied.

"Sir, how long have you been coming to the Western Wall and praying?"

"Ohhh... for about 60 years."

"60 years! That's amazing! What do you pray for?"

"I pray for peace between the Christians, the Jews and the Muslims."

"I pray for all the wars and all the hatred to stop."

"I pray for all our children to grow up safely as responsible adults, and to love their fellow man."

"How do you feel after doing this for 60 years?"

"Like I'm talking to a fucking wall."

~shoes~

"Well, It's Christmas Time, Pretty Baby..."

Did you know that there is some GREAT blues Christmas songs out there???

Try some of these on for size...

~Jonny Lang~

I wonder what ol' Santy is smokin' in his pipe there at the 1:35 mark... and Ms Santy at the 2:40 mark can cum down my chimney... just sayin'...

... or there's always 'Back Door Santa...' contrary to popular belief, this has nothing to do with anal sex... in blues lexicon, a 'back door man' is a fellow who enters the back door of the house when the man of the house is leaving out th front door...

~Clarence Carter~

... or for the more direct approach, there's always B. B. King... "Merry Christmas, Baby..."

~B.B. King~

Merry Christmas...

~shoes~

"Text Message From GirlShoes..."

Last night, at about 10.30PM, this text came in from my daughter...


"Hey, DadE.  Bert and I got our first Christmas tree. Listening to John Denver! 'Please Daddy, Don't Get Drunk This Christmas!!"


I love you and miss you."


I think the name of the album was 'Rocky Mountain Christmas'...

There weren't any alcoholics at our house when the kids were little... we just liked the song and the album... one side was popular Christmas songs, the other side was religious Christmas songs... a little something for everyone... I like both sides of Christmas... neither offends me.


Another John Denver 'favorite' Christmas song...





Yet another...





I can see that a great deal of what we did when the kids were little has passed forward into 'Their Christmases'...


Carol over at Carol The Gardener has a great Christmas post...   I really love her 'Grandchildren's Tree'...


I would love to hear your favorite Christmas songs... and see your photos... Whether it's a 'Religious' Christmas or not...  I think it's still such a wonderful time of the year...


My Mom would be going full steam if she was here... I can't think of anyone who loved Christmas any more than she did...

Merry Christmas...

Really...

~shoes~

"Titty Titty Bang Bang..."

Last night, I was channel-surfing and ran across a TV Waste of Time show called something like "1,000 Ways To Die..." and obviously, one of the segments was titled, 'Titty Titty Bang Bang..."  For your viewing pleasure...




... and of course,  you know that had to set the course for the rest of this post...

Kinda reminds me of 'Bobbing For Apples...'

I wonder if there are Boob Zombies???

Yep...

I say, 'Go For It!!!'

Hmmm... the new Professor Shoes Grading System???

I already know I'm going to Hell...

I thought this was funny!!!

~shoes~

"Beads Of Courage..."

I'm going to deviate from my normal pattern of nonsense posts and share something with you that I saw on TV yesterday morning...  One of my Favorite TV shows to watch is 'Sunday Morning' on CBS...


A segment on yesterday's (Sunday, December 12, 2010) show was especially touching...

Please take about 6 or so minutes of your time to watch this video... It's self-explanatory... I have nothing more to add... I  just wanted to share this with you.

There may be a problem with the embedded link, but you can go HERE and see the spot in a larger format...  


There is a Face Book link HERE.

God Bless these little souls...

Seldom, am I at a loss for words...

~shoes~

"I Feel 'Funny' Today..."

I don't know yet if you all should be scared or not... the last time I wrote about 'feeling funny,' I wrote THIS... 

Last week was the last week of classes here at Alluvial Flood Plain State University... this has been exam week... today is the last day of exams, and tomorrow is Fall Commencement.... Needless to say, I don't want to go tomorrow, but I am sure that I will see some students and some parents that will make it all worth while.


It's the end of the semester... the end of the year... the first is anti-climatic... the other should be joyous what with Christmas and the holidays coming up...   I tend to be upbeat most of the time, but today, my ass is dragging...

Arf Arf...

The College of Business had their Christmas Party this week... I didn't go... I boycotted it... it's not that I have anything against Christmas... quite the contrary... I've just about reached 'critical mass' with some of the people around here... It will pass....


I came close to killing Liam Larry last week... The "Larry, Jerry, and Shoes Show" met for lunch at a local place... we agree to meet at wherever it is we are going to eat, so we all can leave on our own time frame... when I walk in the door, Liam Larry is having a tirade with the lady at the cash register as to why his ticket is eighty cents higher than Jerry's... Larry was just having a cow...  and it tested my patience...  I have found that my patience... my tolerance gets low at the end of the semester...

I'm always amazed at what I find when I google for images... like for 'dragging ass,' I found this one... that is ONE creative kid!! I need to try this out!!! Look at that form... the knees are locked... the mass of the kid's body is on the backside of the knees so he/she can't crumple... the face of the child is providing enough resistance so that he/she doesn't slide backwards and fall on its ass... Brilliant, I tell you...

I also found this one... I imagine that one of these days... one of you will ask... "has anyone seen ~shoes~ around? He hasn't posted in a while..."  I don't know why I think this is funny... but I do...

Model Sex...

Well... it had to be just a matter of time before this post turned to sex...

Passing the Buck...

Rhut rho... what  a three-way we have going here!!!!!

Damn... today IS Friday!!!!!!

Is she wearing happy grizzly bear sleeping pants??

It's lunch time... 

I guess that qualifier leaves me out of the mix...

A Philosophraptor...???

Blah... Where did my Muse go???

~shoes~

"Christmas Post...Inspired by KittyCat..."

KittyCat, over at  Perception Is Everything, has a neat post on Christmas Traditions...  I posted about my annual search for reindeer ornaments and stuff HERE last year...

I had scanned several photos that I have found of past Christmases, and would like to share them... The most important person missing from these photos would be my Mom... 

Shoes, Brother Shoes (Tom)

Christmas

This photo was taken just before Mom left to take us to be in the Christmas Parade that year...  Tom had been so sick... Mom told him he needed to stay home and in bed, but he wanted to ride on the Christmas float with his goofball brother... imagine that.  For the record, those bows were red...  I see that expression on his face, and his little half-hearted wave, and can still feel how badly he felt that afternoon.  I was in kinder-garden, so I am guessing that makes me about 5...

Tom, Lil Shoes (front)

John (back)

Two things about this above photo tell me that it was Christmas time...  the ribbon on the mantel right behind me, and the three angel candles that Mom loved so were on top of the mantel...  I am 14 months older than Tom, yet Mom dressed us alike.  That always started conversations about the 'twins'... since we were about the same size, I am sure that made shopping for clothes easier for Mom...  It appears at that early age, I had already learned a great deal about 'pocket pool'...

John, Lil Shoes, Tom

This photo was probably Christmas after that in the first photo above... Tom would have been back in kinder-garden for HIS year... I used to abuse him telling him that he was the only person I ever knew that had to take kinder-garden over...  As you can tell, he was feeling a Hell of a lot better than he was the previous Christmas parade...


I'm sure that Tom being dressed as an angel caused all kinds of consternation in Heaven and other holy sites... it was just wrong...  John sure had those jeans hiked up there, didn't he??  And I would have loved knowing what the Hell I must have been thinking or doing... that expression on my face gives it away that I was definitely up to something...

I miss Mom and Dad...

I miss those days...  *sighs*

_________

It's exam week here at Alluvial Flood Plain State University... the marginal students are sweating it...  I went to lunch today at a fairly new restaurant here... the owners fancy it as a 'bistro,' but, Hell... this is the Mississippi Delta... A place has to be pretty fancy to escape being called a 'cafe'...


Anyhoo... about half way through my sandwich, I realized that James Taylor had been singing 'Winter Wonderland' for WAY too fucking long...  It would end... and start back up... he sang that damn song for 55 minutes... on the way out the door, I stopped to get a drink refill, and I asked the young lady if that was the only song on that CD...


"Huh?"  


I love intelligent responses...


As much as I like James Taylor, that had become a form of Chinese Water Torture...

_________

I think of myself as being half way intelligent... but... never... EVER... try to slice a lime while holding it in your hand AFTER you've probably had a bit too much to drink...  that damn knife was sharp!!!!!!!

~shoes~