Virtual Cookie Decorating Decorating Christmas cookies without the mess [http://www.theoworlds.com/christmas/] . . . or the fun.
Charlie Brown Christmas' Poor Start > "When CBS bigwigs saw a rough cut of 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' in November 1965, they hated it. > "'They said it was slow,' executive producer Lee Mendelson remembers with a laugh. There were concerns that the show was almost defiantly different: There
Expensive Santas Here's an article in the Chicago Tribune about men paying over $100 to look exactly like Santa [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0512180254dec18,1,807059.story?coll=chi-news-hed] . It's nice that they're so earnest about their job. It's
Quiet Reminder As the fever pitch rises, Benedict XVI reminds us [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=41323]: > "During this period of preparation for Christmas, let us cultivate interior meditation, in order to welcome and safeguard Jesus in our lives," the Holy Father said at his Sunday
Taking Down Slasher Santa Good for the marine. Unlawful, but good for him: > A former Marine took a stab at saving the Christmas spirit yesterday – knocking over a bloody, knife-wielding Santa that was part of a controversial display outside a Manhattan home. > Julius Spohn, 64, of Newark, said he had read
Santarchy Between these clowns and the Krupniks [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3347/], the commercialization of Christmas is looking pretty good: > A group of 40 people dressed in Santa Claus outfits, many of them drunk, went on a rampage through Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, robbing stores, assaulting security guards
Odd Consumer News I don't know what's worse: Krupnik [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3347/] or these tampon tree decorations [http://www.tamponcrafts.com/].
Mega-Shut Down Aaron Wolf at Chronicles has a good piece about the mega-churches' decision to shut the doors on Sunday [http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/christmas.cgi/Churches%20Against%20Christmas/2005/12/16=] . Excerpt from conclusion: > What we can get at church that we can't get
E-Santa Santa Claus is on the 'net: > Out-of-work actor Kevin Lowry thinks he has not only stumbled upon a holiday gold mine, but perhaps his perfect role: Santa Claus. > No matter that the 27-year-old Chicagoan has nary a white hair upon his head, or
Cutting Edge Violent Santa From the New York Post: [http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/59662.htm] > A 10-year-old girl was so disgusted by the ghoulish slasher Santa on East 18th Street she wrote the couple who put it in their front yard yesterday and begged them to take it down