Just updating for the sake of updates (not to mislead anyone into thinking there would be something substantial on here), but I figure it's due time for news relations.
       Christmas time was well and good (I just realized I forsook the chance to use "Merry" to describe something, when it can only be used so rarely TOO LATE NOW), received 3 wonderful t-shirts depicting Dinosaur Comics' T-Rex, Tiny Tim, and a classic Married to the Sea ("I hate voting"). I surprise myself to say that the Tiny Tim one is my favorite of the bunch, mostly for how jarring any image of Tiny Tim is (and this one is particularly jarring). It features the aforementioned singer/ukeleist (I've said "Tiny Tim" 3 times now, it'd be awkward to continue with any proper noun, much less "Tiny Tim" (5 times)) mid-song, hooked nose at an angle as to allow a recoginition of it's hookedness, plaid shirt conveying a grungey, average-man senitment that is totally nonexistent, all in the starkest black-and-white possible. Sadly, though I found it great, no one else commented without my cueing (sad that I felt the need to point out my Tiny Tim shirt), and its only real reward for wearing was getting "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" and "Having a Wonderful Time" stuck in my head all day (and what a day it was!).
      And in addition to t-shirts, I also received The Communist Manifesto, which hopefully will not transform me into a non-ironic wearer of CCCP t-shirts (rather than the wearer who just likes how awesome it looks). I've only read the first few pages of Engels preface, and there are already some wonderful phrases; one of my favorites being "Parisian insurrection". Not that I find it humorous, it's just a nice combination of words. (and here's where the update promptly, awkwardly ends)