Friday 23 December, 2005

Exclusive Blogworld (7)

Blogworld won't be running in the newspaper this weekend, so, excitingly, people who visit my site are getting an EXCLUSIVE! People dressed as santa have been getting into the Christmas spirit by getting very drunk and robbing banks. Certainly those activities sound more exciting than the predictable online debate this year about whether or not the use of the phrase 'Happy Holidays' - as used by none other than George Bush Jnr in this year's White House Christmas card - represents the end of christian civilization as we know it. John Howard weighed into the debate which leads Australian blogger, Road to Surfdom to question the priorities of a Prime Minister who 'defends hooligans who misuse the national flag in riots that have a heavy racial element, but he holds in contempt--contempt, no less--people who downplay Christianity so as not to offend non-Christians.' Defamer muses on the possibility that Our Saviour is a pair of jeans. There's been 'a recurring image on the streets of LA: a little buddha blissfully strumming a guitar, usually found on a Hollywood-type ass sashaying ahead of you. He should be smiling, because he's the logo for True Religion jeans, the $200-plus must-have clothing obsession of the moment.' Washington's political blogger Wonkette has won me over by considering the possibility that He has returned to us as Butterstick, the panda recently born at the National Zoo. 'But fear not: for, behold, they brought us good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you was born July the ninth in the District of Columbia a Savior, which is Butterstick. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the cub on the pandacam . . . Glory to the Stick in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.' Amen.

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