 "QUANTUM SHOT" #746Link - article by Avi Abrams Getting into the Seasonal cheer... and staying there! "Joyful, Joyful!" - these are great times spent with family, friends, pets, many turkeys and the subsequent turkey soups & casseroles. The skies are smiling on those who smile back, and also on those who are discouraged and alone and do not have the slightest inclination to look up, or to cheer up. In this season, however, we are reminded of the "All Is Ultimately Well" good tidings and perhaps of a ten million unwanted calories coming to stay for a while, if we are not careful.  (Hubble telescope image, courtesy NASA) Here is a hodge-podge Seasonal Cheer collection of images from DRB - with many thanks to our loyal readership and looking forward to another great year of exploring the niches of "weird & wonderful"!  (original unknown)  (image credit: Mikhail Tarasov)    "They all want the same thing, Santa... My ironing table!":  Free rocket rides with Santa! -  "Space Captain Santa", art by Oliver Meinerding:  (art by Oliver Meinerding) No Christmas This Year!.... (just kidding):  (art by William Stout) Th image above is the rare Christmas card by the world famous underground comics artist and film set designer, William Stout. Here is Heroic Santa, by Gregory Manchess:  (art by Gregory Manchess) Santa is on the move:  This looks like Santa's sled, but this is Nash Metropolitan Snowmobile, spotted in Saskatchewan, Canada:  (image via) Christmas, Ronald Reagan-style:  Somewhat frivolous "bait":  Silent Night... Soviet style  (art by two Russian artists, Leonid Tishkov and Boris Bendikov, “Private Moon” series) More vintage Soviet cards:    Some Nicely Decorated "Trees"   Why decorate a tree, when you can decorate a bridge? Spotted in Turkey, this old bridge sports a light fixture:  (sent in by Dorukhan Oren, Turkey) Put that old car to use, as a slide:  And if you are in the desert -  Snowflake Star Wars origami patterns can be downloaded here:  (image via) Pretty little lights on buses and cement trucks (20,000 lights on one cement truck alone):   (image credit: Rick Scully) So, you're wondering what's in store for us in 2012? Well... let's see... really, what's out there? -  (photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, "Waiters watching Sonya Henie skate, St. Moritz, 1932") Ahh! Wonders Upon Wonders! -  (fragment of the movie poster for "The Conquest of the Pole", 1912 info) |
