I think I have jack-o-lantern socks, given to me by my mom. I may have gotten rid of them.

I have some cool-ass long skeleton dangly earrings that I happily wear around Halloween.

I have a Santa hat, which I never considered to be the equivalent of other holiday-themed clothing, because I wouldn't wear it to work. (Yeah, now that I think about it, it makes no sense.)

And I may or may not have just bought a slinky short red velour dress with white maribou trim for Christmas parties. I will neither confirm nor deny that, except to say that it's AWESOME.

No Christmas-themed clothing. I tend to do an oblique reference, like the red and white striped long-sleeved t-shirt I bought to wear with my black lounge pants at home at Christmas time. Last year DW and I bought red flannel PJ pants with little doggies sewn on them and wore them for Christmas Eve. So I'll do red nighttime items, but that's about it.

I own 4-inch glow-in-the-dark skeleton earrings. I don't *wear* them, mind you. Mostly because they are cheap as heck and the wires hurt my ears.

I am beginning to nurture the hope that secretly, in her spare time, Lady Gaga knits and watches The Antiques Road Show while wearing a sweatshirt with a cat on it. (Please don't disillusion me if I'm wrong.)

OMG, my mom is Lady Gaga!

I spend so much time editing my HTML and then the screenshots and requirement documents, and do the developers look at them? Quite apparently not. I told them they supersede the app, but nosirree, they're going off the old app instead. ::sigh::

To make a rampant generalism, I've found IT less holiday dressy than other departments, but that may very well be because we're way more foreign than other departments. And more male. At my first LA job there was a Fun Committee and pressure to get all festive, but I think I'm going to be spared that here. I'd be surprised if anyone dressed or decorated in our department.

McSweeney's presents a pole dancing class taught by Paula Deen:

OK now, you're going to grab on to your pole about head-height, swing yourselves out and WRAP your body around the pole—that's right, just wrap yourself around it like a slice of bacon 'round an ear of sweet corn. Good, y'all! Now kick up that outside leg and float around to the ground ... nice and light, just like you're folding mayonnaise into sour cream. That's it!

Oh but you so should.

I'd rather have this one. [link] Get it? Batty? Hardy har har.

Oh, wow, check out this octopus jewelry. I like the tentacle earrings. Spendy, though.

except to say that it's AWESOME.

Sounds awesome to me!

That's the thing, though - Lady Gaga could be anybody. At least, if she dressed in regular clothes, she could probably go to the grocery store unmolested.

TSA leaks its entire airport security manual online:

In a massive security breach, the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) inadvertently posted online its entire airport screening procedures manual, including some of the most closely guarded secrets regarding special rules for diplomats and CIA and law enforcement officers.

The most sensitive parts of the 93-page Standard Operation Procedures were apparently redacted in a way that computer savvy individuals easily overcame.

The document shows sample CIA, Congressional and law enforcement credentials which experts say would make it easy for terrorists to duplicate.

The improperly redacted areas describe that only 20 percent of checked bags are to be hand searched for explosives and reveals in detail the limitations of x-ray screening machines.