In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Christmas?

I'm thinking of cancelling Christmas.

Comments

Dina said…

Oh Chris, it's hard to know what to wish you, this time of year. Thanks for your multi-culti greetings, and uhh, the same to you. How's that?

To sweet Ezra and Henry and Jen a merry Christmas and hugs. :)

24 December 2010 at 20:33

Lachezar said…

Well, you are just a tad further down south...
Have a great one you too!

24 December 2010 at 21:24

magiceye said…

WISH YOU AND YOURS A BOUNTIFUL SEASON OF CHEER!!

24 December 2010 at 21:53

エスタ said…

Merry jolly holidays to you too!

24 December 2010 at 22:28

Carola said…

Christmas! I guess your celebrating it.

Merry Christmas to you and Jen and your two little rascals [Racker]. Have a great time.

We get more and more snow. It's crazy to have so much here.

24 December 2010 at 23:01

Anonymous said…

Thanks a lot for the holiday greetings. I enjoyed it.

For me, it is hard to believe the boy is this big already. Seems like yesterday you were showing pics of pregnancy. Time does pass.

He is one handsome young man.

24 December 2010 at 23:35

Ben Nakagawa said…

Have great time, Kris.

25 December 2010 at 05:48

Kris McCracken said…

I wish that I did cancel it.

25 December 2010 at 12:52

Kris McCracken said…

Dina, 'holiday season' covers it.

Lachezar, cheers!

Magiceye, thank you.

エスタ, hoorah!

Carola, they are Rackers all right. No snow here. Plenty of rain.

Abe, they are giants.

Ben, and yourself!

28 December 2010 at 11:42

Hold me now, oh hold me now, until this hour has gone around. And I'm gone on the rising tide, to face Van Dieman's Land

Theme Thursday again, and this one is rather easy. I am Tasmanian, you see, and aside from being all around general geniuses - as I have amply described previously - we are also very familiar with the concept of WATER. Tasmania is the ONLY island state of an ISLAND continent. That means, we're surrounded by WATER. That should help explain why I take so many photographs of water . Tasmania was for a long time the place where the British (an island race terrified of water) sent their poor people most vile and horrid criminals. The sort of folk who would face the stark choice of a death sentence , or transportation to the other end of the world. Their catalogue of crimes is horrifying : stealing bread assault stealing gentlemen's handkerchiefs drunken assault being poor affray ladies being overly friendly with gentlemen for money hitting people having a drink and a laugh public drunkenness being Irish Fenian terrorist activities being Catholic religious subversion. ...

Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it...

I still have the robot on the job. Here you can see the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery . And here is a poem: Soliloquy for One Dead Bruce Dawe Ah, no, Joe, you never knew the whole of it, the whistling which is only the wind in the chimney's smoking belly, the footsteps on the muddy path that are always somebody else's. I think of your limbs down there, softly becoming mineral, the life of grasses, and the old love of you thrusts the tears up into my eyes, with the family aware and looking everywhere else. Sometimes when summer is over the land, when the heat quickens the deaf timbers, and birds are thick in the plumbs again, my heart sickens, Joe, calling for the water of your voice and the gone agony of your nearness. I try hard to forget, saying: If God wills, it must be so, because of His goodness, because- but the grasshopper memory leaps in the long thicket, knowing no ease. Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it... I like Bruce Dawe. He just my be my favourite Austral...

There was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong.

Here is a self portrait. I’m calling it Portrait of a lady in a dirty window . Shocking, isn’t it? However, it is apt! Samhain , Nos Galan Gaeaf , Hop-tu-Naa , All Saints , All Hallows , Hallowmas , Hallowe'en or HALLOWEEN . It’s Theme Thursday and we’re talking about the festivals traditionally held at the end of the harvest season. Huh? No wonder Australians have trouble with the concept of HALLOWEEN. For the record, in my thirty-two L O N G years on the planet, I can’t say I’ve ever seen ghosts ‘n goblins, trick ‘n treaters or Michael Myers stalking Tasmania’s streets at the end of October. [That said, I did once see a woman as pale as a ghost turning tricks that looked like Michael Myers in late November one time.] Despite the best efforts of Hollywood, sitcoms, and innumerable companies; it seems Australians are impervious to the [ahem] charms of a corporatized variant of a celebration of the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darke...

This will hurt me...

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