Happy New Year (2010 (or 99 for those of you who keep count ;)) !!! (Part II)

One of the great things about living in a Chinese country or Chinese-influenced country (like Thailand or Singapore or whatnot) is that you get TWO New Years each year. Tomorrow (Feb. 14, Valentines day) is the date on which the lunar New Year falls this year (it recesses with the lunar cycle, sort of, and its far more complicated than that…, if you want an explanation post a comment :P… I lecture 3 whole classes in my ethnoastronomy course on the precession of the equinoxes and synodic(moon-based) and sidereal(in our case Sun-based) years.). As such, I will be largely out of commission until the main event (New Year’s eve and New Year’s day) have passed.

This has been the year of the Ox… but Enter… the TIGER. In an ironic twist, last night my friend almost hit a cow on her way home… for those of you in the states (especially the western U.S.) that would not seem totally odd… but this is was in a crowded city…. in Taiwan… a country with few cows… she said two police men were running after it… sadly she did not get a photo… haha.

Anyway… I wish you all good fortunes in the coming New Year, both Solar AND Lunar.

The Mosh Pit way of thinking about this video: Bacon!!!!!!!!

I think this is how Bacon should be advertised…. and definitely keep the spiders out.

(Did I just destroy your childhood?)

The Mosh Pit Anthem?

West Side!….

The Mosh Pit will NEVER die… though my liver suggests that I might die.

I don’t think this is how Sergeant Hartman meant it

Besides, you’re supposed to gouge out one of the eyeballs first:

Somehow, this song is inspiration when things are overwhelming…

Oh can’t you see…

I’m so derned sick of every feathered “friend…”

The only one better than this is … well, I will let you see it later….

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