On the 5th day of Christmas … I read 5 delightfully unusual Christmas-themed books

  For all of my love of pushing creative envelopes, and turning things inside and out with postmodern glee, I also have a sentimentally-laden, corny-storyline loving traditionalist in me, who very rarely gets his way except at Christmas time when the many tales of redemptive love, chestnuts roasting on an Continue Reading

On the 4th day of Christmas 2013 … I watched “Christmas Scandal” (Parks and Recreation, S2 E12)

  If there is one episode that illustrates just how far Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) had come from the ditzy if eminently capable Pollyanna-esque figure of season 1 to the still wide-eyed and optimistic but far more capable and intelligent figure of season 2, it’s “Christmas Scandal”. It’s not simply Continue Reading

You will falalalala and you will like it! So says Amy Poehler and Billy Eichner as they go a-carolin’!

  Quick! Sing the entire first verse of “Deck the Halls” for me! Now! Yes now! No? OK how about “O Come All Ye Faithful”? … “Jingle Bells”? … “12 Days of Christmas”? Nope? Nothing? Well you’re not alone! In a special edition of Billy Eichner’s hilarious “Billy on the Continue Reading

On the 3rd day of Christmas 2013 … I decorated my tree with Goofy, Bugs Bunny, The Jetsons, Tigger, UP ornaments

ParagraphKalexanderson viaphotopincc There’s a better than average chance you may have guessed this by now, but I am a man obsessed by pop culture in all its myriad forms. I love movies, cartoons, cartoon movies, books, music, plays, and the way society is reflected through them and I am more than Continue Reading

On the 1st day of Christmas 2013 … I looked forward to the Doctor Who Christmas Special “The Time of the Doctor”

  SNAPSHOT Orbiting a quiet backwater planet, the massed forces of the universe’s deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the stars.  And amongst them – the Doctor.  Rescuing Clara from a family Christmas dinner, the Time Lord and his best friend must learn what Continue Reading