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It’s the shortest day of the year, and instead of sleeping in I’m up at 5am, what’sですよ！D:

Anyway, a very happy winter solstice, everyone! And a very special shoutout to a very special person (or should I say “special needs person”?), a personal favourite of mine, Fox News‘ very own Mr Bill I-have-a-turd-for-a-brain O’Reilly, who thinks that atheists are just jealous of the Christmas holiday. You know, because Christians have Christmas, Jews have Hanukkah, and what do atheists and pagans and other infidels have? Well, little Billy, these people have the winter solstice, and they had already been celebrating it since the Neolithic Age, i.e. for roughly 10,000 years before Jesus was even born, which is of course a difficult concept to grasp if you think that the Earth is only 6,000 years old. In fact, the sole reason that Christmas is in December and “coincides” with the winter solstice is that people had already been celebrating the winter solstice for 300 hundred generations, and when Christianity came along it was just so much easier to just pirate the ongoing celebrations and turn it into their own than to establish some celebration of their own some time in September (which is most likely when Jesus was actually born) when people didn’t even have the time for a big celebration because they were busy bringing in the harvest. So, Mr O’Reilly, maybe atheists aren’t so much jealous of Christmas as they are pissed off that Christians stole something that had been the legacy of mankind since ancient times and now claim it as their own, which doesn’t seem a very Christian thing to do, but then again maybe it is.

Aaaanyway, I’m turning this whole thing around and I use Christmas songs to celebrate the winter solstice. So there! XP

Speaking of Christmas songs, here is another one of my favourite YouTubers by the name of Robert Borden, siging a medley of Christmas songs. Sometimes his voice makes me cringe a little (especially when he’s trying to hit the very high notes), but I generally like it quite a lot. Check out his YouTube channel, or the stuff he has up on iTunes.

And in other news, NYC boys will be on this year’s Kohaku on New Year’s Eve, you already know that. Now here’s the good news: instead of performing another boring version of NYC they will perform a special Kohaku 60th anniversary medley with famous songs from both the Showa and the Heisei eras. According to NHK’s chief producer Inoue Keisuke the boys are supposed to function as “lubricating oil between the generations“. (source)

Mmmmhh, lubricating oil, I like that. Anyway, the whole thing sounds very intriguing, and it actually makes me look forward to it quite a lot, although methinks that Hey!Say!JUMP would have been better equipped to perform a medley like that, but what do I know? I’m just a fan.

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