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Love Actually – Which Couple Actually Stays Together The Longest? (And Other Christmas Traditions)

Entertainment Weekly has a poll on which of the many inter-connected couples in my favourite Christmas movie, “Love, Actually” actually stays together the longest with Jamie and Aurelia (the writer and his assistant) currently with a comfortable lead of 40% of votes cast.  They did independently decide to learn each others’ language so that’s some […]

Posted 21 December 2011 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Music Monday – “I was following the pack/All swallowed in their coats/Their scarves of red/Tied ’round their throats/To keep their little heads/From falling in the snow”

There’s a whole sub-genre of songs that aren’t technically Christmas songs but get identified as such because they mention winter or snow or even Christmas in passing (Joni Mitchell’s “River” being the most famous example.) Below is a recent song that I think is also gaining favour as an non-Christmasy seasonal favourite. This is a […]

Posted 19 December 2011 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

A Few Last Minute Christmas Links

Need a last minute gift?  Check-out the 100 Highest Rated Gifts on Amazon.com AskMF Suggestions for Sad, Miserable and Melancholy Christmas Songs How an atheist feels during the holidays …and what you get when you ask your smart-ass son to decorate the Christmas tree (via Reddit)

Posted 18 December 2011 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Small Santa

“Santa” makes an unannounced visit to deliver presents (toys gathered from his room into one of his pillow cases) to Shea and I:

Posted 17 December 2011 § Family § Humour ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – “Mine is a stupid book!”

Jimmy Kimmel: helping to scar the children of America this Christmas!  (This is pretty cruel and also pretty funny!)

Posted 16 December 2011 § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Cause if it sounds wrong on Christmas/Why does it ever sound right?”

“A War Song on Christmas” by Joseph Gordon-Levitt (yes, the actor.)

Posted 12 December 2011 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “I really like Christmas/It’s sentimental I know/But I just really like it/I’m hardly religious/I’d rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu/To be honest”

I’m planning to post a month of Music Monday Xmas tunes, starting with this great atheist-themed Christmas song originally posted by my friend Cenobyte last year on Facebook or her blog (I don’t think I ended up posting it last year but if I did, it’s worth listening to again!)

Posted 05 December 2011 § Family § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,

Sunday Snap – Can You Spot The Difference? (Xmas Edition)

Pace had two Christmas parties today – one at his karate club from 1-3pm and one at the library from 2-4pm. Due to good scheduling by all involved, we were able to participate in Santa visits at both locations. Pace has already been apprised of the fact that Santa, although magical and mystical in all […]

Posted 04 December 2011 § Family § SaturdaySnap § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – What It Looks Like Inside An Amazon Warehouse

Some pretty cool photos give you a glimpse inside an Amazon warehouse (while looking at these, it’s also worth keeping in mind that there have been complaints about the working conditions in these mega-warehouses – both in terms of temperature and productivity expectations.)

Posted 03 December 2011 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

How Did Your Parents Make Christmas More Real For You?

It’s exactly one month until Santa makes his rounds and, inspired by a conversation with a co-worker this week, I posted a question on AskMetafilter that got a lot of great replies as well as a lot of people marking it as a favourite question. (It’s a bit hard to read the post because I […]

Posted 24 November 2011 § Family § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,