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Look, it’s a cassette tape! But…it’s online :)

I never actually made a real one of these, but here’s my stab at an online muxtape.  

I can’t get itunes to export the playlist I made in any normal format, or I’d paste the stuff here. Sorry.

Muxtape’s pretty firmly in the pseudo-legal realm, but I like it, because it doesn’t try to be too many things.  It’s got a metaphor, and it sticks to it.

If you make one, let me know! 

I was sitting today, and wondering why Easter is “Easter.”
People always mumble about the reduction of Christmas to Xmas or Santa stuff, but Easter can’t really be abbreviated. And what does it mean, anyhow? Look east-er? Sunrise is in the east, so um…in the sense of the sun rising again, so does resurrection make sense?

Wikipedia had an interesting explanation.

The modern English term Easter developed from the Old English word Eastre, which itself developed prior to AD 899. The name refers to the Eostur-monath, a month of the Germanic calendar which may have been named for the goddess Eastre in Germanic paganism.^[4]

…which makes no sense to me, given the Christian nature of the holiday. Other people call it something related to it’s Greek name, Pascha (passover, pesach), in Slavic languages, it’s the “Great Day/Night”, and apparently Croatians just say “The Resurrection.”

They make a lot of sense, those other languages.

Otherwise, the non-commercialization of Easter vs. Christmas was the topic of this article. The author makes a good point about the non-fuzziness of wearing an iconified, dying human as fashion accessory.

(To sum: Everyone likes a feel-good family story, no one in their right mind particularly likes guys being tortured on crosses).

And yet, it’s Happy Easter, because Easter’s the happy ending to the gruesomely sad story.

Happy Easter, all.