Dark Roasted Blend: Happy Holidays and New 2010 Year from DRB!

"QUANTUM SHOT" #605
Link - by A. Abrams


      This is your "feel-good" fix for the Season

      First, we'd like to thank our fantastic readers, gentlemanly and scholarly
      commenters, our knowledgeable contributors and interpid explorers for
      their wonderful support in 2009 - and by the way, we have a few fantastic
      sweepstakes and giveaways up our sleeves in the beginning of 2010 (such as
      an all-expenses-paid trip to the exciting travel destination, courtesy of
      DRB and our sponsors, for example - watch our news in January). We are
      also very excited to welcome some talented people to our team of writers
      and photographers: expect to hear from them soon.
      

      End of December is perhaps the most exciting time of the year: in-between
      days for all sorts of holidays, xmases, hanukkahs, newyears, hopes and
      joys - so why not have a blast celebrating it? So here we go again, with
      "FUNNY FUZZIES & FUZZY FUNNIES" end-of-year collection on DRB:

      
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      We got SQUID cards (designed by Ernst Haeckel) this year - more
      info:

      
      
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      Cute vintage Japanese cards (Google-eyed?):

      
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      Great French cards by Jean-Baptiste Monge (see and order more at his
      site):

      
      
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        Jean-Baptiste Monge)

      

      Speaking about Hanukkah, here is a picture of how this wonderful time was
      celebrated at our household:

      
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        Avi Abrams)

      Something for the soul - a beautiful nativity scultured relief on a
      cathedral in Orvieto, Italy:

      
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        Ambra)

      Glamorous ladies (with sweet, sweet smiles to brighten up the day)

      More eye candy to greet 2010 - beautiful vintage ladies in movies and
      advertising of the 1960s:

      

      Colleen Corby:

      
      
      

      Hayley Mills:

      
      

      Natalie Wood:

      
      

      Agnetha Faltskog:

      
      
      
      

      Dolores Hart:

      

      Cars... were glamorous once, too:

      
      
      
      

      But we digress... coming back to the holidays and seasonal themes:

      Decorations not for the faint-hearted

      
      

      The whole street covered with lights (I guess you will have to hover over
      it, overjoyed) -

      

      Recycling your bottles:

      

      On the left: you probably have seen this picture - the hanging guy is part
      of the decorations, too (which caused a few good people and sweet old
      ladies to come up with a ladder and try to heroically save the guy). And
      the decoration on the right is called "The Deer Hunter", of course:

      

      Saving some electricity bills and effort:

      

      Light up the night, with vengeance:

      
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      All sorts:

      

      

      

      

      

      

      

      

      

      

      

      

      2010 is not 2012, thank goodness, so -

      Looking into the future with confidence:

      
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      For reasons beyond our control we had somewhat less posts in 2009 than we
      intended. But things are looking great for 2010: we have a treasure-trove
      of unbelievably cool stuff to show you in the coming weeks - so stay tuned
      and (hopefully) excited.

      CONTINUE TO MORE SEASONAL CHEER! ->

8 Comments:

Anonymous said...: Thankyou to everyone involved with DRB for a very wonderful year of posts. My interwebz would not be the same without it. Merry Xmas and bring on a bright new year; ___
Will said...: Come on Avi, tell the truth, that was you who was hanging on to the side of the house.; ___
Eric said...: Thanks, Avi, for another fascinating year! I look forward to being impressed by what you find in 2010.

Eric; ___
tj said...: Thanks, that was fun.; ___
Jonne said...: Thanks for all the wonderful topics this year, even if there were not so many... But there's an enormous archive to keep me occupied :)

Best Wishes for 2010!; ___
Felonius Monk said...: Happy New Year to you!Now how about some new stuff in the store?; ___
Terry_Jim said...: Thanks for the fun, interesting posts. Great site!; ___
Elizabeth said...: Just wanted to let you know that the blue LED lights all over the ground is at Midtown in Tokyo, Japan. They do this "illumination" every year, each year a little different. It's a large lawn (not street) behind the shopping complex. The building you can see in the background is the Midtown building. It's in the Roppongi area of Tokyo.; ___

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