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Christmas Heaven/Christmas Hell, EARTH - Every Christmas we either enjoy or suffer through the same holiday music. Even those of us who exclusively utilize radio for “talk programming” are incapable of escaping the vicious cycle. Shopping malls, elevators, and convenience stores everywhere pump in the merry noise from the last burp of Thanksgiving to the anti-climax of December 26th. Unfortunately, few people seem to be willing to pass judgment on these tunes or, better yet, cut some of them... Read Full Story

Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Useless Stuff". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own article... Read Full Story

The Office @ Receiving Me? - The results are in, and Receiving Me? has named Alan Colmes 2008 Person Of The Year. Though Colmes faced stiff competition from President-Elect, Barack Obama, and that guy who won So You Think You Can Dance , Colmes’s last minute decision to leave Hannity and Colmes and Fox News without even a token liberal crushed all notions of the mousy host and placed him miles ahead of the competition. Political analyst, Punny Namehere, described Colmes’s actions as “A... Read Full Story

Somewhere no one is looking, HERE - Extreme lack of readership calls for extremely truthful advertising. In an attempt to reverse the segregation of Receiving Me? from “people who use the internet”, someone important (who we should all pretend is not me) has initiated operation “Trust Us, This Is True”– an advertising campaign with the core mission of exploring the catastrophic ramifications of continuing to ignore what the New York Times once called “A blog no one reads, with a name no one... Read Full Story

A likely trio of illegal immigrants, liberal intelligentsia, and professional basketball players has joined forces to destroy America’s sporting traditions from within this free land.  Their goal is nothing less than destroying the American ideal of manhood through importing the “world’s game” to our shores, and implanting it in the soul of the nation’s youth. Sport is a method of teaching youth society’s values and preferred virtues.  The rules of our chosen games reflect the battles young... Read Full Story

Long-lost Fondamenta degli Ormesini columnist, Andrea Aguzzi, checks back in with some pictures of the newly constructed Calatrava Bridge in Venice– the fourth bridge across the Grand Canal. Read Full Story

The Phillies and Raul Ibanez agreed to a 3-year, $30 million contract on Saturday. New Phils GM, Rueben Amaro Jr., described the pickup succinctly: “Raul will play left field and be old.” This move means that Pat Burrell is officially less likely to sleep with your girlfriend in South Philly next year. Guys attached to hot girls in American League cities everywhere, be afraid. Receiving Me? will provide readers with additional clips of both Ibanez and Burrell’s antics (on and off the... Read Full Story

North Pole, Arctic Ocean - With the overwhelming success of cinematic masterwork , Four Christmases , executives at Time Warner Inc. have decided to greenlight (cheesy pun intended) three sequels: Five Christmases , Six Christmases , and Seven Kwanzaas . Vince Vaughn, currently busy “getting laid after a long dry spell,” is reported to be on board for the three films as long as a “hot blond is also involved.” Apparently last year’s Christmas film, Fred Claus , taught Vaughn that very... Read Full Story

Before working in a cubicle this week, I had never even stepped inside one of these blissfully gray dead zones, but now that I have, I will never look at boring office work the same way again! These things are great! If you thought you were dispassionate at the office before working in a cubicle, then you are living a life of hearty denial my friend! I invite workers everywhere to try one out and see just how difficult it is to have a conversation with people mere feet from you, or keep... Read Full Story

The Garden, EDEN - In a shocking development, religious leaders at St. Saint’s Seminary School have found that according to religion, religion is true. Organizer, Father Padre Père, long a believer in his own religion, expressed hope that the findings would finally put to rest the modern argument that religion is based on superstitious beliefs that would normally be really silly. “There is sort of a poetic justice that religion proved itself, by itself. I’m not really sure why we ever looked... Read Full Story