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Now that no one is talking about Chick-fil-A anymore, it’s time to announce that Font Grill has released a new font.

Introducing: Font-fil-A

Go download Font-fil-A.

You know what goes well with a chikin font? Potatoes and kern.

I’ve been spending my time putting together the Christmas card (actually, it’s a flyer this year), so I don’t have much of anything to post here today.

Am I the only one who still sorts Christmas cards by ZIP code before mailing them? It used to be that was appreciated by the postal workers who had to sort the outgoing mail. Is that stuff all automated now anyway?

No matter, I still like sorting them myself.

Random note: my brother wins the award for highest ZIP code number in our list this year.

Every four years, a certain word is used much more frequently than usual. Here is a chart of that:

I expect a smaller spike, a localized maximum, around January 20, 2013.

With the end of the world pending, I figured I should express my thoughts on some of the misplaced accusations of who or what is the anti-Christ.

What prompted this thought was the discovery that some people are opposed to Social Security numbers because they could be the mark of the Beast.

My criticism of that view is that it is limited to people in the United States only. I doubt that the events described in Revelation will be confined to the middle of North America.

Plus, I find anti-Christ predictions to be on par with predictions of the day of the rapture – useless at best and detrimental to Christian testimony at worst.

So let’s end the debate about what the mark of the Beast is or who the anti-Christ is.

Because it’s obviously Facebook.

I heard this week is Band Books Week, where we are supposed to read books that have been overlooked and neglected because, well, they’re about bands. I think it usually starts the last Sunday in September, or something like that.

For my contribution to this week, I am suggesting the following 3 books to people

• The Marching Band Handbook
  This book is a guide for various aspects of marching bands. If you are looking to run a marching band, this might be just what you need.

  If you are not involved in running a marching band, then you’ll probably want to skip this one.

• The Line
  If you want an actual story, instead of a manual, then go for this book. It follows some high-school kids as they navigate the tricky waters of classes, band, and relationships.

  If you are not a girl who is in junior high or high school, then you’ll probably want to skip this one.

• The Smiths: Songs That Saved Your Life
  Not all bands are marching bands, so here is a book about a pop band. Or rather, a former pop band. Rock band? Alternative rock? Whatever they were, here’s a book about them and their music.

  If you did not have a poster of Morrissey on your bedroom wall when you were a teenager, then you’ll probably want to skip this one.

Disclaimer: I have not read these books, nor am I endorsing them. I have no idea if they are any good. Read them at your own risk.

What books would you recommend for Band Books Week?

Dear Presidential Candidates:

I won’t trust much of what goes on in the campaign; in fact, I won’t even pay attention to it. But if you do want to gain my attention – and my vote – then please include these items in your promises to the American people.

Promise us that

• we will be able to keep our shoes on our feet at the airport;
• we will be able to buy any kind of light bulb we want;
• Presidents’ Day will be observed on the Monday following the first Sunday in February; and
• anyone who tries a pen or marker, sees that it doesn’t work, and puts it back in place (instead of throwing it away) will be fined a day’s pay.

For the second-to-last item, a candidate could promise to observe Groundhog Day on that day, or make up a new holiday. The point is to give us that Monday off, to recover from the Super Bowl.

For that last point, an additional consequence should be that the person cannot vote in the next election. If someone is going to re-elect a writing utensil that everyone agrees is bad, how can he be trusted not to re-elect a bad president, governor, or congressman?

What would you like to add to the list?

No real post today – it’s too hot.

And there was a holiday this week.

And we’ve been busy at home.

But if you want to read something, go read The Eliot Papers.