OK, have you all been terribly optimistic and GOTTEN calendars for next year? I have an oversized “Antiques Roadshow” one at home, and a tiny Metropolitan Museum of Art “Shoes” one for the office.
I am not terribly happy with either, but all I could find were Elvii and Teddy Bears Angels and Pin-Ups and artists I can’t stand . . . No indication, I hope, of what the coming year will be like . . . I saw a “World Trade Center Memorial Calendar.” I know the money goes to charity (at least, I HOPE it does), but can you imagine how depressed you’d be after 12 months of looking at THAT every fucking day?!
I have been giving out promo calendars from one of our carriers, to clients. Regardless of who is their insurance company, everyone leaves with a Wawanesa Insurance calendar.
They’re pretty nice, beautiful photography, but mostly because they gave us about 1000 of the damned things.
I got myself a calendar from my local gay bookstore (Lambda Rising in DC)featuring hot, nekkid bodybuilders. Needless to say, it will hang at home. For the office, I’ll get a word-a-day desk calendar.
I have my calendars. I have a few from Spain (Seville and Grenada), and yesterday I bought The Far Side’s 17th and final Off-the-wall calendar. I need that one for work. I have no idea what I’ll do in 2003, though. Kill a cow-orker, presumably.
I always have a hard time picking calendars, and that’s because my tastes and hobbies are so screwball and obscure that they don’t make calendars for 'em. Well, except for the Discworld stuff, but wall calendars are rare, and the UK import prices are too high…
I love calendars, particularly Page-A-Day calendars, and have buy three each year: one for work, one for my dresser, and one for my desk at home. (I also have three wall calendars.)
This year, I have Dave Barry (dresser), “'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy” (desk) and Monty Python (office). I recommend against Monty Python for work use, however. There have been a number of pages I had to hide due to inappropriateness for the work environment. And some of it just isn’t funny. One of my wall calendars is from http://www.despair.com - I highly recommend (they’re the ones who do the “DeMotivator” posters - like Successories, only funny.)
For next year, I have The Onion (had it two years ago and loved it), Dave Barry (my fave of my three this year), and one called “Now That’s Funny” or some such name. The only wall calendar I have so far is “Norton’s Journey” - because Norton looks almost exactly like one of my kitties.
For home use, I have a lovely calendar of Judaica that started in September, so it’s already on the wall. For my desk at work, I will likely get the Far Side or Dave Barry calendars. For scheduling purposes for time off, I use Yahoo! Calendar because it allows sharing with other users. It makes it easy to keep the time-off schedules straight.
For the office: One wall calendar with artsy-fartsy B&W photos of old American cars, and an Onion page-a-day calendar for the desk. These coordinate with the school bus perpetual calendar and the payday and holiday calendar tacked to the bulletin board next to my credenza.
At home I have a gimme calendar from the VFW and a pocket calendar from my lodge.
I need to get an Onion wall calendar for the computer room, though.
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I’ve got the Sears “Craftsman[sup]TM[/sup]” hanging on the wall right now.
Hey…it was free. And it’s full of coupons.
OK, and I think it’s kind of cool - especially the pictures of the old power tools from the 20’s and 30’s.
I 'spose that makes me some kind of tool geek…I can live with that.
I’m asking for them for Christmas (because I keep getting them, and I might as well get what I like)
What I want is the Audoban (sp?) calender, or one called “Morning Light” or one called “Earth From Above”. All of these are scenic with very good photography. I usually get an O’Keefe for home, but I haven’t been that enthused about her the last year or two. I’d like an Andy Goldsworthy calendar, but I bet that doesn’t exist.
I was completely unable to resist the 2002 “Luggage Label” calendar. Each month features reproductions of classic paper luggage labels. There are ones for the Hotel New Yorker, the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo and so forth. All of them are the original vintage artwork. This will look very nice on my wall.
I am incorrigable. I get an astronomy calendar from Astronomy Magazine every year, and up on the fridge it goes. My wife, who is sick of hearing me talk astronomy 24/7, still likes the calendar too. I expect I’ll get mine in the mail sometime soon.
I usually buy mine at the end of January , when they’re half-price, but I saw a beautiful one last week, about mediaeval women, and broke my rule & immediately bought one for a female friend who did a MA thesis on that period.
Big pictures of paintings of the period that will be suitable for framing afterwards.
Hope you like it, D.
I want to get the 2002 Farside Off the Wall calander, especially since it is the last one that will be made. Yes, sadly, Gary Larson will no longer be bringing us the joy of his comic in the last form it still existed in (aside from the books, which aren’t having any new ones either.)
