FROM THE POST-XMAS MAIL
Aeswiren reports on…

CTHULHU’S PARENTAGE
“According to correspondence between Lovecraft and fellow author Clark Ashton Smith, Cthulhu's parent is the androgynous deity Nagoob. Nagoob mated with the Outer God Yog-Sothoth to bear Cthulhu on the planet Vhoorl. Now, considering the descriptions of Yog-Sothoth I've seen, heavy on the quivering, the gelatinous etc., one does rather wonder why anything remotely androgynous would consider touching him with the proverbial barge pole, let alone actually mating."

And in the same (jugular) vein this little gem came from 00soul.

WHILE Elizabeth marvels…
“James Brown is in a gold coffin. The white hearse has glass sides!”

AND MrMR sends a link to a incredibly comprehensive compendium of recent Daily Kos piece on developments in the War On Drugs with (for me) a previous unseen piece on recreational psychoptropics by the late great Carl Sagan.

The secret word is Future

FINALLY, as always, in the time honored, Doc40, seasonal tradition, we have PENGUIN WHACKING