New Year’s Day – VoVatia (original) (raw)

Category Archives: New Year’s Day

This Ain’t Over

New year, new movies! Okay, two of these are pretty old movies, but they were new to us. SPOILERS for all three. The Lodge – When a man with two children falls in love with a new woman, his ex-wife … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Cults, Current Events, elvis presley, Holidays, Music, New Year's Day, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Television, The Simpsons, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged charles bronson, death wish, jeff goldblum, made in japan, mental illness, misognyny, new year's evil, riley keough, shadow, sonia manzano, suicide, the lodge |

As the Hours and the Days and the Weeks and the Months and the Years Go By

With this year soon coming to an end, I was thinking about whether there’s any connection between the number of days in a year and degrees in a circle, and apparently there is. Of course, a modern year doesn’t have … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Astronomy, Babylonian, Christmas, Easter, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, History, Holidays, Islam, Judaism, Mathematics, Mesopotamia, Mythology, New Year's Day, Norse, Religion, Roman, Science | Tagged astrology, baby new year, bible, calendar, dionysus, egyptian calendar, enoch, father time, genesis, geometry, jewish calendar, khonsu, kronos, measurement, moon, nostradamus, planets, sabbath, saturn, saturnalia, sun, thoth, time, yule |

Talking Time

I can’t say I’m really that keen on the song “Do You Hear What I Hear?”, but I’m not entirely sure why. I think it might just be how the versions they play on the radio tend to take it really seriously, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Beatles, Christianity, Christmas, Holidays, Judaism, Magic, Music, Mythology, New Year's Day, Religion, Songs I Don't Care For | Tagged bees, bob geldof, cuban missile crisis, gloria shayne, jesus, john lennon, nativity, noel regney, peace on earth, sheep, stevie wonder, war |

No Guests Like Gnomes for the Holidays

I’m sure I don’t need to tell anyone else who’s played the Sims games that they’re incredibly addictive and time-consuming. I’ll generally set goals for when I’ll take a break or at least switch households, but then I often find … Continue reading →

Posted in Christmas, Halloween, Holidays, Magic, New Year's Day, Sims, Thanksgiving, Video Games | Tagged ded moroz, father winter, gnomes, harvestfest, love day, santa claus, the sims, the sims 3, the sims 3 seasons, the sims 3 supernatural, the sims 4 get to work, the sims 4 seasons, winterfest |

A Frosty Reception

Since our President-Elect is in love with Vladimir Putin and insists that everyone should constantly say “Merry Christmas,” I guess we’d better learn about Christmas in Russia, right? It might seem a little late for this, but Orthodox Christmas is … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Authors, Christianity, Christmas, Discworld, Eastern Orthodox, Fairy Tales, History, Holidays, Mythology, New Year's Day, Religion, Russian, Terry Pratchett | Tagged baba yaga, ded moroz, epiphany, father christmas, father frost, jack frost, morozko, nikolai rimsky-korsakov, old man winter, orthodox christmas, santa claus, snegurochka, wintersmith |

Letting the New Year In

Perhaps it would have been more appropriate to have written about this post’s subject last month, but it makes more sense to me to cover her now instead of waiting until next March. Anna Perenna was the Roman goddess of … Continue reading →

Posted in Holidays, Mythology, New Year's Day, Poetry, Roman | Tagged aeneas, anna of carthage, anna perenna, bovillae, carthage, dido of carthage, fasti, ides of march, io, mars, minerva, ovid, river numicius, themis, virgil |

Don’t Say Nothing Bad About My Baby New Year

Rudolph’s Shiny New Year – This 1976 Rankin-Bass special is currently up on YouTube, although I can’t say whether it will stay there. I can’t recall having seen this one before, although Beth had. The most famous reindeer of all … Continue reading →

Posted in Christmas, Holidays, New Year's Day, Television, Uncategorized | Tagged baby new year, father time, frank gorshin, harold peary, paul frees, rankin-bass, red skelton, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, rudolph's shiny new year, santa claus |