Tag Archives: Daily Dose of Christmas

I do not believe that any Bible verse has ever, or shall ever, be given a finer reading than this one, delivered by a child actor named Christopher Shea, who was only seven years old when he did the voice … Continue reading →

Walter Cronkite and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir tell the story of the 1914 impromptu Christmas truce between British and German troops on a cold battlefield in World War I. This is one of the saddest, most remarkable tales of our … Continue reading →

No video this time, just the wonderful genius of Randall Munroe and xkcd. Of course, with typical xkcd brilliance, you must click to the original and read the mouseover text. What made me happy about this comic is that, as … Continue reading →

Vintage cartoons are the order of the day:

As a shout-out to one of my very favorite people in all Blogistan, Sheila O’Malley, here is the great Mr. Presley. (It suddenly occurs to me that, with the constant playing of Christmas music this time of year, I almost … Continue reading →

There’s little doubt that the work of classical music most closely and obviously associated with Christmas is Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker. I’ve long loved the music of this glorious score, and one of my fondest memories of my musical performing … Continue reading →

This Christmas tribute to Calvin and Hobbes was making the rounds of Facebookland and the Twitterverse over the weekend, and now I bring it to the increasingly forgotten old-world nation of Blogistan.

Cats make everything better. Even Christmas. Well, maybe. Actually, if you met our cats, you might well wonder if any of the pro-cat propaganda out there was founded in any sort of reality whatsoever…but I digress.

Unfortunately, the embedding of the video has been disabled, so you’ll have to follow the link below to see it, but here’s a clip from Love Actually. What’s happening here is that Harry (Alan Rickman) is buying an expensive necklace … Continue reading →

In honor of the end of the Iraq war, here’s John Lennon.