-what profits a man, if he gains the whole world, yet, looses his own soul?
-lay your treasures not on earth, but in heaven where rust cannot corrupt, and moth cannot destroy.

(-they have fashioned themselves gods who have ears that cannot hear them, and eyes that cannot see, nor arms to hold them.
these gods are made of wood, metal, and stone, -and after a while they become like them.)

-he who seeks his own life will loose it, but he who lays down his life, for My sake, will find eternal life.

-I am standing at the door of your heart, and knock, and to whomever opens that door, I will come in, we will have supper, and I will not leave.

-I will never leave you, nor turn away from you,
how could I forget you? for I have written you in my heart, and on the palms of my hands,
my thoughts towards you are more than the grains of sand, and more than the stars,
-how could I forget you?

I am what is holding you together.

-various lyrics, (different author,)
happy hunting to find the references.

Fee fi fo fum
Smell the blood of a gullible bum
Brain dead bored bought into the fraud
BiggerHarderFasterMore!
Trying to find some way of stopping
Struggling home with bags of shopping
Gotta buy gotta-gotta buy-buy
Gotta buy gotta-gotta gotta-gotta buy

Don't even like it
But you've just gotta try it
You don't even want it
But you're gonna buy
Gonna-gonna-gonna buy it

Always someone on the TV screen
Trying to sell you something that you don't want or need
Sponsored by this, brought to you by that
Even as you slump in the back seat of a cab
But if it ain't you
Well, what're gonna do?
There's always someone
Right behind you in the queue!

Don't even like it
But you've just gotta try it
You don't even want it
But you're gonna buy
Gonna-gonna-gonna buy it
You don't even need it
But you've just gotta have it
You don't even want it
But you're gonna buy
Gonna-gonna-gonna buy it

Fee fi fo fum
Smell the blood of a gullible bum
Who should've been happy
Could've been content
Who got everything he set out to get
But what is the use of possessing the world
When you do not even possess yourself?
What is the point in selling your soul
When there's nothing to buy
And nowhere to go?

-lyrics The The

so, yay for buy nothing day...

and to continue the fun, the City of Portland (Ore.) is promoting November 25th as Buy Local Day, organized by the Sustainable Business Network of Portland. I know its so tempting to start your Saturday morning off with a wonderfully delightful Starbucks peppermint mocha, but I am sure Koffeeheads could concoct something quite festive and amazing. And who needs Pottery Barn when you have Come on a my house in the Tower? (Okay, so maybe I do have a weakness for Pottery Barn, but really, it is just one day to support the locals!)

So yay for local business! Buy Local Day Saturday November 25th!

The whole season is off, ...considering JC was born during the time of year (we) refer to as high-summer... (They're figuring sometime in July.)

(Though I for one am going with the standard holiday greetings:
-'Merry Christmas' to the Christians
-'Happy Hanakuah' (sp?) to my Hebrew Friends
-'Festive Kwanzaa' to my friends of color,
...erm, need to learn the Islamic one, but we're rolling with that too, (and they got a totally cool freakin' stamp now...)
-'enjoy your solstice' for the pagans and neo-pagans

and 'have a nice day,' for the athiests...

It's gonna be a busy month,
buying cards alone is gonna put me in the poorhouse...

(Maybe I'll just say 'Happy Holidays,' just to save a few bucks and tweak the fundi's...) b

(subliminal message buried in Fresno Famous)
-Go to Ben's buy a used bicycle, he's got some in there that are vintage yet have like, (no,) miles on them and are a fraction of what you'd pay at a store....besides, they're cooler....
(end subliminal message buried in Fresno Famous)