Every year, for the past 10 years or so, I’ve bought a calendar of the Beatles to put on my bedroom wall. This year, I broke tradition. I bought, um, ahem, errr…
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Ricky Martin. Me, a grown woman in her 30s! (But he’s soooo nice to look at…)
MaryAnn
No, stupid, it’s a boat!
the nature conservancy, 16-month calendar. gorgeous pics of endangered species.
The purpose of life is to matter, to count, to have it make a difference you lived at all.
This year, barns is the theme. I love old barns and I am incessantly taking pictures of them.
Last year the calender on my wall had reproductions of the odd and sometimes downright disturbing paintings by M.C. Escher.
FixedBack
“Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.”~~G.K.Chesterton 1908
I ahve a bunch of calenders up in my room. They are a endangered species one, a Far Side one, a skateboarding one, a skating one, and fishing one.
Always Be Happy Go Lucky
I usually get wall calendars as a standard gift from some family members. Last years was a hamster themed one, and I also got National Lampoon’s desk calendar, which just tells you the depressing things that happened in this day in history. Next year’s desk calendar is this wierd Rubix Cube that has January thru June on the outside, and folds to reveal the rest of the year on the inside. The art work is from ‘Masters of Impressionism’ I think. No idea yet what the wall one is going to look like…
It depends on which room I am in or whether or not I am at work of at home.
My home office - The Peanuts wall calendar
The den - Lighthouses of NC’s Outer Banks
The kitchen - teapots (Mrs. ConMan’s)
The office - National Geographic’s Majestic America
Desk pad - scenes from Mother Nature
“Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’”
E A Poe
At home Winnie the Pooh of course…he is always full of wise and helpful things. At work whatever is laying around.
My old one is Mucha; the 2000 one is “Dark Horse Presents The Best Of Manga 2000”.
“Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.”----Jung
Neener neener neener!! I got a Monet calendar from your mom and dad for Christmas! 
“Wednesday the 15th - Chris made one of her rare good points today.”
Guanolad
(slapping fingers) Bad fingers, bad, bad fingers.
You must be mad! I have the Swimsuit calendar…can I be sued for sexual harassment if I display it at work!
I have a terrible time choosing calendars: do I really want Elvis, or Mutts, or movie stars (only half of whom I like) staring at me all year? And they never do my favorite artists, like Titian or Holbein or Boldini!
At work, I have my yearly Farmer’s Almanac calendar: perfect size, quaint but not nauseating. At home, I have a lovely calendar showing 19th centuiry New York townhouses.
I am also gonna mark down every date, app’t., etc., and tuck it away for the future. I recently came across a calendar from when I was in college, and was alternately delighted (“I remember that dinner!”) and baffled (“who the hell was Tex?”).
I have one at my office from the National Weather Service. It’s got pictures of all kinds of beautiful and nasty weather-related scenes (hurricanes, tordadoes, floods, lightning, rainbows, etc.). It’s also got neat little weather facts for each day (“January 23, 1926, Buttville, Iowa received 145 feet of snow in a 15 minute period and was unable to function for six straight months”). No matter how bad my day gets, I can always look up and be grateful that I’m not in the middle of a tornado in Kansas.
Got the hubby a Salvador Dali one for Christmas so that’s what’ll go in the dining room.
I just use Outlook at work but usually pick up the Dilbert little square desktop type calendar when they go on clearance in January.
My dad has a sci-fi/fantasy artist whose name I can never remember and G.Gordon’s Stacked & Packed. These two in addition to the 2 girly calendars he gets from his vendors around town. You know the ones, some little big-breasted honey in short-shorts pretending she knows how to use a nail gun! 
In the past, I have bought calendars by famous artist. Last year’s was Georgia O’Keefe. For the year 2000, I bought an Austin Powers calendar.—It was on the Troll book order that I use with my students… (BTW, why does a elementary school book order promote a movie inappropriate for children?)
–Gail
“Predictable, really I suppose. It was an act of purest optimism to have posed the question in the first place.” --John Cleese
I usually go for the oddball calendars at my office.
1999’s was vintage Smokey Bear posters (CRUSH YOUR BUTTS!), and some good ones from the past were American Outhouses, 19th century California Maritime, and 1920s Berlin photographs.
Haven’t yet found one for the 2000 wall, but my new desk calendar is the Taschen-published book of jazz photographs.
Uke
My 1999 calendars were Herman Leonard Jazz photos and a Latvian calendar that lists all the name’s days.
In case you don’t know what a name’s day is, I’ll explain it because it’s a nice holiday for Eastern Europeans.
Basically, each day of the year has a few first names attached to it. When it’s your day, you get presents as if it were your birthday. Mine (Melanija) is August 19th. I share it with Imanta and Marlene. Today (Dec 28th) we are honoring all of the Mierins and Jonatans out there. Happy Names Day!
Oh, tomorrow it will be Solveiga, Ilgone and Ileana. Thurs it will be Davis and Davids. On the 31st, Kalvis and Silvestrs.
If you would like to know your special name’s day, please e-mail me your first name and I will post the results on a new thread (and keep your anonymitity). Note: Some names are not translatable to Latvian. If that is the case, I will pick a close Latvian name for you.
BTW, my new 2000 calendar is Futurama.
Formerly unknown as “Melanie”
Hit a bookshop today and had it narrowed down to two options for 2000…a set of twelve Frank Lloyd Wright interiors, or a dozen detail blow-ups from Hieronymous Bosch paintings.
Think I’ll keep looking.
Uke
Since christmas I’ve been the proud owner of a year 2000 Powerpuff girls wall calendar that will be hung up as soon as I get back to school.