Well the passing of 2009 is coming fast, with this passing it is traditional for people here on Earth to reflect on the things that occurred in the outgoing year. Your current year in the Gregorian it is around 2010 years after some obscure event – give or take about three years on either side. (your monks never really agreed on the exact date.) Your current Islamic Year is 1429 AH. The date in the Jewish calendar is Tevet 15, 5770
On my home planet of Marcab which is the 12th planet orbiting the star you know as Eta Ursae Majoris ( UMa / Ursae Majoris) Alkaid, and sometimes Benetnasch. We celebrate a new year only once every 567 Earth years which makes our astronomical calendars rather cumbersome. Needless to say we went to a completely non-planetary motion standard.
Whatever you call the year or whenever you come from (originally,) I hope you have a happy and productive new year.
Last year was a time for reorganization at the Odd Empire. We have some new faces and some surprising old ones. We noted with great sadness the passing of Mac Tonnies, Mac; Mac represented a more balanced view into the paranormal than most of his contemporaries. He’s EXACLY what the Odd Empire WAS NOT designed for –which is why we never riffed him. Mac, wherever you are; I didn’t agree with you all the time but I respected your opinion as you respected mine. It’s a pity that more people can’t think like you and voice their opinions with a consistently civil and cheerful outlook on life. RIP dude! You were one of the good guys!
Now, onto the future, things to look out for at the Odd Empire;
We have our Wiki site up and running and we are actively soliciting contributors. The subject of the Odd Empire (in case you don’t already know) is riffing self important web page authors who think they know everything and pointing out some of their more obvious mistakes. Not only web pages, but podcasts, wiki pages and videos are all fair game. Also religious organizations, insane self published book authors, pseudo scientists, pro-conspiracy nutjobs, ghost hunters, Bigfoot –or cripzoologists, cerealologists, UFOlogists, paranormalists and of course, Scientologists.
That’s not to say there is anything wrong with these people. We just like to point out to the world that they don’t really know Jack about what they are writing about. (I can safely say that because I keep Jack locked up here at the Odd Empire. )
So There it is! 2010 will be a significant year just like 2009 was. Remember –
“Merda taurorum animas conturbit” e – “Exegi monumentum aere perennius”
“Res ipsa Loquitur”