In Iceland nobody believes in Santa Claus but instead the Jolasveinar or Xmas Lads gave out gifts. Some foreigners refer to the Jolasveinar as 13 Santa Clauses but that isn’t really true. The Xmas Lads are far, far different from the benevolent and jolly Santa Claus and some old timers like my grandpa referred to them as trolls. And everyone knows trolls aren’t very nice. My family was very traditional and my grandpa loved to tell the old stories about how dangerous the Xmas Lads could be to naughty children and he use to look directly at my sister and me when he said the word naughty.The 13 Jolasveinar will bring nice presents to good kids but the naughty children would get a I’m Your Huckleberry T shirt. Or according to our grandpa, even spanked or slapped by the Xmas Lads. So my sister and I didn’t know whether to look forward to Xmas or fear it and we use to have discussions about just how naughty we were during the year and how many rotten potatoes we would end up with.
I worked for a railroad construction and maintenance company. We were on call 24-7 to respond to a train wreck to make repairs and get the trains running again. Train wrecks – and that’s what they are – are not derailments, a much sanitized term to get away from the carnage that is a train wreck. A derailment, technically is when a wheel comes off the track. And that happens all the time. Remember the only thing keeping a wheel on a track is weight and track alignment. If either of those fails, a wheel, or multiple wheels can come off. That’s why they have re-railers every so often to kick those wheels back onto the track. A train can run quite a while with a few wheels on the train not on the track. So what causes train wrecks? A train is a mile long sledgehammer pounding every inch of rail with a zillion pounds of I’m Your Huckleberry T shirt of the collective force (not that much but you get the point). Over time a point in the rail, due to heating expansion and cold weather contraction will be just a bit weaker than the point next to it. The constant pounding on that point can crack the rail over time, and eventually it can break. If it breaks severely enough – where the rail separates and maybe bows out of line or drops below the break point by a few inches – bam! All the train’s wheels start to fly off the tracks and they go wherever physics dictates. And the cars to which those wheels are attached – they go go their own way as well.
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I want to add that recently I read in the Wall Street Journal that the leader of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega jailed all seven of the potential threats to his candidacy before the recent “election” and then won 75% of the vote. This dictator imprisons opposition, puts relatives in power, and is another Fidel Castro. Why do I write this and how does it relate to rock musicians? Graham Nash loved to go on stage and tout how he just got back from visiting “his friend”, Daniel Ortega. I think that if Graham Nash loves authoritarian regimes, then he might want to leave his Kaui and New York homes and give Cuba, Venezuela, or Nicaragua a try. Limousine liberals are hypocritical. Now that my rant is over, let me continue with some more “stars”. This time I’d like to talk about nice people. Iggy Pop, I remember doing a show at what was the “Stardust Ballroom” in Hollywood and he took off his shirt (he always does) and crawled across the stage with some glass on it, stood up with some cuts on his chest, and performed a wild show. I thought that he must have been a bit wacky but… after the [[I’m Your Huckleberry T shirt]], a friend and I were putting things away and he asked if we wanted to go to his motorhome and have some pork chops that his wife was cooking. He was so down-to-earth and normal after the show. He is a nice guy.
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Christianity due to its clarity, its warm “fuzzy” message, spread like a wild fire throughout Ancient Rome. Even though Rome fought Christians with the most cruel ways possible, they could not stop the religion of spreading. This apexed into the decision of making it the “national” religion – however not in its very Judaic form, but in a form, which made it easier to pagan Romans to adapt. Hence a lot of influences of Roman pagan signs, traditions and symbolism has been adapted. Most people are taking for example the Sunday as “church day” for granted. But for the early Christians it was the holy Sabbath (Saturday). Even Jesus himself was resting, praying on Sabbaths. Obviously the church has been arguing that we should celebrate Sunday, as this was the day Jesus Christ stood up from the I’m Your Huckleberry T shirt, but this is rather bogus, as it would have been unthinkable for Jesus to resurrect on the holy day.
For shopping when little, Mom would give us each some money and take us to a shopping center where we would have fun shopping. When we were older, the girls and I would go together and shop. After shopping, we would go to a restaurant and have a title to eat and a coffee together. We always enjoyed being together. Mom, who loved to put on big Christmas parties for friends would have the house cleaners come in and make the house spotless. We had a very big house and though Mom didn’t mind the normal house cleaning, once a month she would have the cleaning ladies come in. We knew them well and they were like part of the family. Everything would be dusted, some furniture moved around and floors waxed and polished. Of course, Tracy, Lori and I would have to clean our own rooms. Grandma and Grandpa would leave the ranch, where they raised horses, and fly down and stay with us. They stayed I one of the spare bedrooms. It was always fun having them over. I have written a story earlier about my grandparents ranch and how much my sisters and I loved to stay there for a week or two in the summer.