'Tis the Season

Unexpected (action?) figures: Einstein. Ralphie or his dad from A Christmas Story. Tim Burton's Boy with Nails in His Eyes.

You.

Also: Infectious-diseases ties and scarves.

Many delightful additions in the Comments.

Over the Weekend

On a stormy, windy day over the weekend, a gong buoy pulled loose from somewhere and came within about twenty feet of the shore here. As of this morning, it had washed up almost onto the beach and was listing on its side. It's been making a haunting sound, a drone that rises and falls, like the last dying cries of some great lonely sea beast as it looks into the next world.

( stray cats; technofubarity )