If you shop for sweaters at Boston Store, Whitey Suburbia, you are not “gangsta.”

Thank you for spending some of your time at my website throughout 2008. I really appreciate all the comments left and emails received. This next year promises to bring even more Taco Zeitgeist posts.

Happy New Year

What can a book published in 1848 tell us about the current economic difficulties plaguing our nation? Things to keep in mind from the past eight years: decline in US quality of life, unregulated economic markets, lax credit lending, war-profiteering, and mass consumerism.

It is enough to mention the commercial crises that by their periodical return put on trial, each time more threateningly, the existence of the entire bourgeois society. In these crises a great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity - the epidemic of overproduction. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilization, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce.

-The Communist Manifesto

Drive safe on the roads. People are driving like idiots this holiday season.

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” - Hamilton Wright Mabie

This timeless quote grew on me last year. Hehehe…

I also believe it is time to bring back the Santa’s germanic counterpart Krampus back into popular culture.

It took more than 5 hours, but the Christmas Cards are done. They were just dropped in the mail. Here are two of the many maaaaany rejects tossed aside.

Retro Foto Zeitgeist entries are photos from my archive.