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Merry Christmas!

Christmas Open Thread

It’s A Christmas Miracle!

Hip Hip Hooray For Christmas Vacation!

Christmas Eve Open Thread

“Driving to Midnight Mass” by John F. Dean — read by Bono (1983)

Captain Comeback

Today is the 40th anniversary of the greatest NFL playoff game of the 1970s. The Dallas Cowboys defeated the San Francisco 49ers 30-28 on this date in 1972 in the NFC Divisional Playoff game in San Francisco, CA. Many, if not most of you don’t know that because all the NFL talks about — [...]

Jingle Bell Time is a swell time

Sunday Open Thread

The Prophet Micah Foretells the Birth of Christ by Gerard Jollain (1670)

Sunday Gospel

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel by The Civil Wars

Get Em Off? They Flew All The Way ‘Round The World Man

3D Weekend Five: Caroling, Cartoons, Christmas Stuff

Matt Helm stole my idea for this week’s Five brought this up in a previous OT — favorite Christmas songs, secular & non-.  I’m also thinking Christmas novelty songs and Christmas cartoon villains…Name your favorites!

5.  Christmas covers (contemporary) : Eagles & Please Come Home for Christmas.  I think of it as a less depressing version [...]

Saturday Open Thread

Annunciation by Sandro Botticelli

Friday Open Thread — Hey There Mister Muslim!

Be warned this is definitely NSFW but it is pretty funny. Merry Christmas!

Duck and Cover! (Thursday Open Thread)

It’s Christmas at Ground Zero!

This is what Christmas is aboot, eh?

Wednesday Open Thread

This would be on the 25th Anniversary Ultimate Platinum Edition Blu-ray Rattle and Hum except this Fall was 25 years and they inexplicably continue to ignore this 1980s classic.

Tuesday Open Thread

Monday Open Thread

Today’s Classic Pick: December 16

A Christmas Carol (1951): Ghosts visit a miser during the holidays to teach him the errors of his ways.  Dir.: Brian Desmond-Hurst  Cast: Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Jack Warner  86 min./8:30pm CDT/TCM

Simply the best version of Dickens’ short novel.  The additions are seamlessly Dickensian; the ghost story, vivid (and a little terrifying); the [...]

Sunday Open Thread

Jayne Mansfield and Bob Hope — Christmas USO show — 1957