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Category Archives: Xmas

My Annual Christmas Blasphemy Tradition

Because what’s Christmas without tradition? (I evidently like tradition!) Merry Christmas 2012!

Posted 25 December 2012 § Blog § Censorship § Humour § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

A Skeptical History of Christmas

Happy Festivus!

Posted 23 December 2012 § Censorship § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – #yqr Self-Guided Twinkle Tour

The Centre of the Arts is running a “12 Tickets of Christmas” series on FB for free concert tickets each day.  The other day they asked people to submit the location of the best Christmas lights they’d seen in Regina to enter that day’s draw. Later that day, I also came across this on Twitter – […]

Posted 21 December 2012 § FridayFunLink § Internet § List § Saskatchewan § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Five Differences Between Christmas Concerts For Pace and The Elementary School-Aged Me

Pace had his first Christmas concert (actually “concerts” – see #5 below) today. That got me thinking about the ways they’ve changed since I was a kid. [Edit: Someone pointed out many of the differences are as much about rural vs. urban approaches as generational which is probably true.] First off, when I was a […]

Posted 18 December 2012 § Censorship § Humour § List § Pace ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Holiday Concert

Pace saw a YouTube video of the song he’s doing for his school Christmas holiday concert and decided he needed to jazz up his look too!

Posted 15 December 2012 § Censorship § Family § Pace § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

@ryanMeili Monday – #skndpldr Halfway Point Review

The #skndpldr contest kicked off in September and ends in March which means that early-to-mid-December is basically the halfway point of the campaign for all of them.  Since I’m big on celebrating milestones, I thought I’d take a moment to recognize some of the funniest, most memorable surprising and appreciated moments each has had so […]

Posted 10 December 2012 § Humour § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Sappy Sunday – The Saddest Christmas Song Ever?

A lot of comments about his one in a recent MetaFilter thread about sad Christmas movies, TV & music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJi6cQtVE-c

Posted 09 December 2012 § PopCulture § Sad § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Happy Holidays from FSM!

Posted 05 December 2012 § Humour § Internet § Meme ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

How Do You Make Santa Real For Your Kids?

This is a question I posed to MetaFilter last year and am now revisiting this year.  (I was reminded of that question after seeing a recent one about creating Christmas traditions for your nieces and nephews .) This is, by far, the most favourited comment in that thread: When I was four, my parents totally rigged […]

Posted 28 November 2012 § MemoryLane § Pace § Sad § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

First Snow of the Year

The only version of Hawksley Workman’s “First Snow of the Year” I could find on YouTube right now is copyright controlled so instead, you get a kids’ choir version (which actually adds to the winter/Christmas feel!) One question I haven’t resolved – when I do my annual “first snow of the year” post, what defines […]

Posted 10 October 2012 § Canada § Humour § Meme § MemoryLane § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , ,