Winter storms are underway, they say
bury us, bury us.
Shortest lines at the supermarket,
bury us, bury us.
Water, firewater, cat food, junk food,
discount Christmas candy,
mashed potatoes, off-brand soup,
chunky stew, chunky peanut butter,
chunky salsa, chunky vodka,
bury us, bury us.

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Supposedly we might get up to a foot of snow in the next day or so. I actually prefer that to the past two days' ice drizzle droppings. Our downhill street is nothing but ice, and people with better tires than ours spun and stuck all early morning. My shovel's out and waiting.

Rather than deluge you with more of my own blatherings (this jurblogurinal should turn me beet red, but the Internet removes all shame), today's a big Link Day. Hope you enjoy something.

PopMatters Writers On Music Shopping - Very Enjoyable set of pieces on what's fun, lovely, terrible and necessary about the physical (and mental) act of shopping for music.

American Christianity: Incredible Lightness of Being by Dick Staub

One of the founders of Matthew 25 House, a homeless shelter in Akron, Ohio, describes his mission and its underlying ethos.

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I hate to be a meme lemming, but this particularly piques my interest. Thanks to my former roommate Dean "BRRR, it's 50 Degrees here in L.A. and I'm going to have to put on pants to deal with it" McEmoPants for posting it in his LJ.

Dan Curtis Johnson, on LJ as crisper, says:---
A few months ago, I had a dream in which LiveJournal and everyone on it went completely nuts for a day. The entire world had turned upside-down and inside-out and nobody was their normal self anymore. And it was such a good read, that I think it should happen for real. January 27th is the birthday of Lewis Carroll, author of ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. Alice fell down a rabbit hole into a place where everything had changed and none of the rules could be counted on to apply anymore. I say, let's do the same: January 27th, 2005 should be the First Annual LiveJournal Rabbit Hole Day. When you post on that Thursday, instead of the normal daily life and work and news and politics, write about the strange new world you have found yourself in for the day, with its strange new life and work and news and politics. Are your pets talking back at you now? Has your child suddenly grown to full adulthood? Does everyone at work think you're someone else now? Did Bush step down from the White House to become a pro-circuit tap-dancer? Did Zoroastrian missionaries show up on your doorstep with literature in 3-D? Have you been placed under house arrest by bizarre insectoid women wielding clubs made of lunchmeat?Let's have a day where nobody's life makes sense anymore, where any random LJ you click on will bring you some strange new tale. Let's all fall down the Rabbit Hole for 24 hours and see what's there. It will be beautiful.For consideration: this only works if you spread the word, of course, but three and a half weeks is forever in LJ Meme Time.

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I just received notice that my place of employment is sending everyone home at 4pm, less than 20 minutes from now. Super Fortune Jackpot Swing Dig.