Entries from December 2008

December 23, 2008

merry christmas from NST

 
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Previous cards:
 
As for music….

“Daddy, what was Christmas like before You Tube?”
“Well, we always had a tree; and often there was snow; and sour mash eggnog … and … yeah, there was Santa … and … and presents … but … well, without the YouTubes … it really wasn’t much of a Christmas.”
“That’s [...]

December 23, 2008

a lotta people won’t get no supper tonight

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
To paraphrase T. S. Eliot:
This the way the year ends,
Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

It’s Christmastime—that’s “the holidays” to you secularists out there, Hanukkah with all its deviant spellings to our Jewish brethren, but to those of us weaned on Charles Dickens and Bing Crosby, it [...]