“If my Valentine you won’t be,
I’ll hang myself on your Christmas tree.”
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Such is the spirit for this year’s holiday card, and 2021 in a large way, which we all wanted to be so much better than 2020 and it just wasn’t meant to be. After last year’s nostalgic family holiday card, I was scheduled, according to my tendency to swing from extreme to extreme, for something racy, saucy, and naughty as a black net stocking this year, but with the purpose of excising extremes, and zigging instead of expected zagging, I stayed in a softer and gentler vein. Also, I was fatigued this fall with everything else that’s been going on, so you’re lucky you got any new image at all.
There is one first for this year’s presentation of the holiday card, and that’s the featured GIF you see here. It’s my very first card-in-motion, and may pave the way for an electronic future. And in spite of that brutal Hemingway quote, this is not a suicidal death-wish message, it’s simply one of slumber for the winter.
While I’ve been sending out photo holiday cards since an epic S&M tinged leather and bondage pose in 1995, I’ve only kept digital copies of the cards since 2004. Here’s that list for your perusal:
- 2004: The Snow Queen
- 2005: Disco Ball Shock Jock
- 2006: Christmas Crucifixion
- 2007: Bad Dumpster Santa
- 2008: Beautiful Christmas By the Sea
- 2009: Angelic Ass
- 2010: The Wedding Card
- 2011: Uncle Al’s Radio Flyer
- 2012: Eat Your Holiday Heart Out
- 2013: The Baby Brothers Ilagan
- 2014: Let It Snow
- 2015: A Holiday Ax to Grind
- 2016: Little Baby Jesus
- 2017: Classy Condo Cheers
- 2018: Incendiary Reflection
- 2019: Bake Me a Man
- 2020: A Family Affair