“You, there - boy! What day is it?”

“Why it’s fully five days after Christmas Day, sir!”

“fuckin’ slow ass bitch ass spirits taking their goddamn time”

the movie Krampus does a lot to demonstrate how horror can become comedy with just a bouncier, happier, foley

of course Santa is real, he’s created anew every year by hundreds of older family members trying to make the world seem a little more special and magical

getting to become Santa for just a few magical moments a year is one of the great things about having kids around

and that’s why I learned how to rotoscope to drop a Santa into my younger brother’s exact Christmas Eve chimney very quickly between 12:30 and 2:30 AM on Christmas morning

I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,

walking you through a real shithole, chirps on

about good bones: This place could be beautiful,

right? You could make this place beautiful.

What did Tiny Tim even have that Scrooge being less of an asshole could fix it? Not enough turkey-itus? Leech deficiency? Too much phlegm in the humors?

Kids these days, never enough phlegm in the humors.

ed: whatever it was that Tiny Tim had, I bet all the malnutrition didn’t help, it’s quite possibly it literally was not-enough-turkey-itus.

a bout of winter COVID stole my christmas and my sense of smell and now I can’t taste anything

which I’m pretty unhappy about

I made a coconut and squash curry soup for dinner and all I could taste was “creamy paste, light salt”

happappy hormolidays everypeep

I like some Christmas music but I’m not and have never been Christian and sometimes people shouting very specific things about the primacy of Jesus can be a little uncomfortable on the ol’ playlist -

anyways, Vince Guaraldi just plopped the Greatest Christmas Album on YouTube, and this particular album has always been a tent-pole in the ol’ winter playlist:

Jingle bells is fine although it promises a level of fun that I don’t think a one horse open sleigh is able to deliver, that is tech that has been subsumed by the snowmobile, which IS fun, although songs about it are not forthcoming.

in order to work off some of the almost oppressive closeness of the Christmas season I basically don’t talk to anybody in my family (or outside my family, if possible) for the first 20 days of January