ghost of christmas past

a note of explanation about the elf.

I realize the elf portrayed in 'ghost of christmas past' is not your typically represented elf. I contemplated making a tiny elf suit, as I can sew passably well and even had suitable fabric (albeit with a slight 'disco elf' feel) but it seemed very time consuming for a figure that would only wear it once and is incapable, by way of being inanimate, of enjoying it. I briefly touched on the optiion that I could make the suit of suitable size so I could then dress up the cat but that was rejected as:
a. dressing up a cat is more disturbing than even I like to get and
b. the 'I bet I can train the cat to walk on a leash and harness incident of '03.
Then there was the contemplation of folding paper into an elfin hat which brought to mind the even more disturbing, crane-tastic, disastrous 'Origami Incident of '93'.
Hence dada-istic simplicity rescued the day - an object labelled 'Elf' would therefore be an elf. I grabbed some surgical tape off my table (I'm fine, I just like surgical tape), wrote 'Elf' on it and stuck it on the doll.
Et, Qvod erat demonstrandvm- it's an elf. (the v's here are actually u's, the greeks just wrote it like that. I have always suspected it was because it was easier to carve v's than u's.)

But I digress,
Happy Holidays,
and Hail Elf!