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Merry Media

We didn’t watch as much holiday-related stuff this year as in previous ones, but here are a few things that were new to us, three movies and an album. The Holdovers – This movie focuses on people left behind during … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Ben Folds, Christmas, Families, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Prejudice, Relationships, Technology, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged abe vigoda, artificial intelligence, bing crosby, blackface, burt bacharach, dogs, e.t. the extra-terrestrial, fred astaire, herb alpert, holiday inn, irving berlin, lindsey kraft, prancer, racism, reindeer, sam elliott, santa claus, sleigher, the holdovers |

The St. Lucy Show

We watched a Morbid Anatomy lecture by Eric Huang from Saint Podcast about St. Nicholas, and how he developed into the modern Santa Claus, something I’ve written about before. I knew that it isn’t agreed upon that Nicholas was even … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, C.S. Lewis, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, Chronicles of Narnia, Food, History, Holidays, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Norse, Poetry, Religion, Roman Empire | Tagged a visit from st nicholas, arthur j. stansbury, befana, cats, clement moore, council of nicaea, donkeys, emperor diocletian, epiphany, eric huang, father christmas, freyja, julian calendar, king herod the great, lucy pevensie, lussekatter, lussi, morbid anatomy, nisser, paschasius, perchta, podcasts, reindeer, saint podcast, santa claus, st. lucy of syracuse, st. lucy's day, st. nicholas, star boys, the children's friend, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, trolls, winter solstice, witches |

Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas

We watched a few Christmas-related things this month, and I wasn’t necessarily planning to post about them all at once, but that’s kind of how it worked out. There were some things for which I don’t necessarily have a full … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Celebrities, Christianity, Christmas, Comics, elvis presley, Fairy Tales, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Muppets, Music, Nursery Rhymes, Religion, Sonic the Hedgehog, Technology, Television, They Might Be Giants, Toys, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged adventures of sonic the hedgehog, babes in toyland, ballet, boogeyman, captain and tennille, clarence carter, clarence nash, dan castellaneta, dance, dogs, don knotts, donald duck, donkeys, donny osmond, dr. demento, dr. ivo robotnik, drew barrymore, duck the halls, dudley moore, el vez, elves, fat daddy, flaming lips, fozzie bear, free design, frosty the snowman, grounder, gus goose, j. otto seibold, jingle bell rocks, john denver, john linnell, john lithgow, john waters, johnny marks, laurel and hardy, lew zealand, liberace, little bo peep, long john baldry, ludwig von drake, macaulay culkin, march of the wooden soldiers, marie osmond, matt groening, michael stipe, mickey mouse, miss piggy, monkeys, nat king cole, nativity, north pole, nutcracker suite, olive the other reindeer, penguins, pigs, princess sally acorn, reindeer, robots, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, run dmc, santa claus, santa claus the movie, scratch, scrooge mcduck, sean marshall, sonic christmas blast, superman, susan cooper, the small one, the three little pigs, the twelve days of christmas, tom bosley, tom tom the piper's son, tom wilson, vivian walsh, wayne coyne, ziggy, ziggy's gift |

Ho Ho Home Invasion

I usually don’t like to make two of the same kind of post in a row, but ’tis the season, so here are some more reviews of Christmas-related audiovisual media. Santa Claus – I’d heard of this 1959 Mexican movie, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, Food, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Mythology, Religion, Television, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies, Zelda | Tagged angela lansbury, angels, cherubim, devils, dogs, donkeys, frank conniff, gene autry, irving berlin, jesus, joseph, lucifer, merlin, mystery science theater 3000, nativity, nestor the long-eared christmas donkey, rankin/bass, reindeer, roger miller, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, santa claus, santa claus vs. the devil, sheep, the first christmas, the story of the first christmas snow, three wise men, trace beaulieu, virgin mary, white christmas |

Goodness Makes the Badness Go Away

Babes in Toyland (1961) – My friend Jared Davis actually wrote about a whole bunch of different adaptations of this story, and how they differ, so you might want to check that out for some additional details and opinions. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Christmas, Fairy Tales, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Mythology, Nursery Rhymes, Revisiting Disney, Television, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged annette funicello, babes in toyland, carroll o'connor, ed wynn, father christmas, gargamel, glo friends, glo worm, home for christmas, homelessness, little bo peep, lorenzo music, mary mary quite contrary, moose, papa smurf, ray bolger, reindeer, sally struthers, santa claus, saved by the bell, smurfs, st. nicholas, the glo friends save christmas, the smurfs' christmas special, tom tom the piper's son, trees, witches, wizards |

Holidaytime Television

Here are my thoughts on a few Christmas specials Beth and I watched this month, not counting ones I’ve already written about. Frosty’s Winter Wonderland – I vaguely remember seeing this years ago on a black and white TV, when … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Christmas, Comics, Fairy Tales, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Television, Toys | Tagged andy griffith, big bad wolf, bob newhart, chuck jones, comet, daws butler, dean martin, dennis the menace, dom deluise, frosty the snowman, frosty's winter wonderland, jack frost, jay north, jimmy durante, june foray, parson brown, raggedy andy, raggedy ann, rankin-bass, reindeer, santa claus, the great santa claus caper, variety shows, winter wonderland |

Songs from the Naughty List

It’s strange how sometimes I’ll see topics trending on the Internet as if they’re something new when they’re obviously not. That’s not to say that I mind discussing the same topics repeatedly (I do it all the time, as you … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Christmas, Gender, Holidays, Humor, Language, Music, Television | Tagged baby it's cold outside, donner, frosty the snowman, parson brown, reindeer, ruben studdard, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, santa claus, sleigh ride, the christmas song, vixen, winter wonderland |

Santanimals

According to the annoyingly catchy Christmas novelty song “Dominick the Donkey,” Santa Claus rides a donkey because “the reindeer cannot climb the hills of Italy.” But can’t the reindeer fly, in which case hills would be more or less irrelevant? … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Christianity, Christmas, Finnish, Holidays, Music, Mythology, Norse, Poetry, Religion | Tagged a visit from st nicholas, bethlehem, bible, camels, clement moore, dominick the donkey, donkeys, father christmas, goats, gospel of luke, gospel of matthew, jerusalem, jesus, joulupukki, kangaroos, reindeer, santa claus, six white boomers, thor, ukko, virgin mary, yule goat |

Shanower on Santa

I bought a copy of L. Frank Baum’s The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus with illustrations by Eric Shanower back in July, and I might as well take a closer look at it now. I re-read the story, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Christmas, Eric Shanower, Holidays, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged a kidnapped santa claus, a visit from st nicholas, awgwas, daemons, gnomes, immortals, knooks, laughing valley of hohaho, mo, nomes, phunnyland, reindeer, ryls, santa claus, the life and adventures of santa claus, the magical monarch of mo, the road to oz |

Holiday for Sims

I’m now playing The Sims 3 with the Seasons expansion pack, and one thing that’s immediately obvious is how the holidays are given generic names instead of real-world ones. This does make a certain amount of sense, as they don’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Holidays, The Sims, Valentine's Day, Video Games | Tagged father time, jingle, labor day, new year's day, reindeer, santa claus, the sims 2, the sims 3, the sims 3 seasons, toy day |