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Who’s a good boy?

Superman & Krypto by CHRIS SAMNEE (tumblr: @chrissamnee) colored by me

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Christmas resources

Hello, friends!

As you might have guessed, I have posted a lot of Christmas and Christmas-adjacent material over the years, and there’s a chance you missed something you might find interesting. As such, here is a collection of links to different things I thought might be of interest to people.

Please enjoy!

General stuff

What’s the story with “Xmas” and why is my mom wrong to be mad about it

The meaning of “Twelve Days of Christmas”

How Christian is Santa Claus

The tag for my “advent calendar,” noting events from days between December 1 through January 6

10 members of the Christmas Justice League

The insanity of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas

The similar but different insanity of the Infancy Gospel of James

Christmas-time drinking traditions

What is mumming

What’s up with advent calendars

Is Vergil’s Fourth Eclogue really about Jesus

What happened to all that gold, frankincense and myrrh

various answers to questions about the “scary ghost stories” line

Is it okay for kids to believe in Santa

Saint Nicholas stuff

The manna of Saint Nicholas

The story of the theft of Saint Nicholas’s bones

Krampus stuff

a Krampus card and poem

Why you and everyone else are wrong about the Krampus

Krampus feet

If Krampus isn’t Santa’s enemy, who is?

general Krampus tag

Gift-bringers of other cultures stuff

Who is La Befana

Cuss-filled Yule Lad write-up part 1

Cuss-filled Yule Lad write-up part 2

Frau Perchta is terrifying

Saint Lucy

What’s up with Good King Wenceslas

Who is Saint Basil

The Yule Goat

The OTHER Yule Goat

New Year’s gift-bringers

New Year’s grapes

pre-Columbian winter festivals

Music stuff

a musical advent calendar

why a 500-year-old poem is my new Christmas jam

three holiday playlists, including the notorious “garbage christmas”

Comics stuff

The complete lyrics to “Deck Us All With Boston Charlie”

a Golden Age Christmas, DC edition

a Golden Age Christmas, Santa Claus Funnies edition

a Golden Age Christmas, Frosty edition

a Golden Age Christmas, miscellaneous Dell edition

Cartoon stuff

Christmas Comes But Once a Year

The original Rudolph

Jack Frost by Ub Iwerks

Disney’s Night Before Christmas

Disney’s Santa’s Workshop

Stuff I made

pages from Tick New Series #7 by me and @lesmcclaine 

the full issue of Santa Claus vs the Martians #1 by me and James Harren

the script to Santa Claus vs the Martians #2 by me

Santa Claus vs the Martians covers

“The Klaubauf’s Wager,” a short comic by me and @evandocshaner

“Tio de Nadal,” a short comic about a pooping Christmas log by me and @nedroidcomics

“The Baker’s Dozen,” a short comic by me and Chuck Knigge

“Krampusnacht,” a short comic by me and Chuck Knigge

sketches for my Christmas comics by @fetorpse

a letter to my nephew from Santa Claus with some help from me

a second letter to my nephew from Santa Claus with some help from me

the best Nativity scene of all time by @schweizercomics with some help from me

ten awesome papercraft Santas by @schweizercomics with some help from me

“The Two Gifts,” a short film by me and @patchdrury

Me on the Talk Gnosis podcast discussing the dark side of Christmas

“The Klaubauf’s Welcome,” a short story by me

I will likely update this as new things get added, including this year’s Santa Claus letter, which I’m still working on. You can, of course, check my general Christmas tag, which includes lots of stuff not listed here, including reblogs.

I hope you find something you like! I love you! Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Joyous Kwanzaa! Happy holidays!

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~ “Progress”,  1915 editorial cartoon

Society despairs of the Modern Woman, 1915 style

History geek note: Now I’m imagining an editorial cartoon from 1615 comparing “Ye Moderne Bible Reading Woman” with the good, old-fashioned women from 1315 who didn’t insist on learning to read the bible for themselves but were content to have a learned Man of the Church interpret it for them. I’d try drawing it myself if I could draw anything other then stick figures.

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Hail Satan.

Warning Signs of Satanic Behavior. Training video for police, 1990

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"The Thing on the Fourble Board" from Quiet, Please (1948)

A few months ago, following a certain post I made (to say which one would be a bit of a spoiler), someone brought this delightful piece of history to my attention, and I am very excited to share it with you now.

"The Thing on the Fourble Board" is widely considered the best and scariest piece of radio to have come out of radio’s golden age of horror and mystery programming. If you listen, you will learn why.

A fourble board is a horizontal platform on an oil derrick that is as high off the ground as four lengths of pipe are long (“fourble”=”quadruple”). This is the tale of a worker at the oil derrick and the staff geologist, and what they discover about the things their drilling has (literally) unearthed.

I’m trying my best to find the right balance between not over-hyping this and making it clear that this is the coolest fucking thing you will hear this Halloween.

I know asking you to listen to 25 minutes of old timey radio is asking a lot in this crazy iPad world we live in, but this is exactly the length of an episode of Welcome to Night Vale, so I know you can find time for it. Just imagine the narrator is Cecil and the geologist is Carlos. We can do this, together. Don’t worry: the writing is tight and the pace is fairly brisk. You won’t get bored.

You can download an mp3 of the show here if you want it on your listening devices instead of playing it on YouTube. (please let me know if this link doesn’t work)

Just take a few minutes, maybe while you’re cooking dinner or washing dishes or whatever, and give a listen to one of the most revered pieces of horror radio in history, and if you like it, please share it with someone you think would enjoy it.

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Pockets are a must, for storing your necessaries. Knife, money, tobacco, frogs, string, marbles, bullets. Read your Twain for suggested pocket wares.

Nick Offerman prescribes your everyday carry (via putthison)

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I wish Family Day was known as Louis Riel Day in the rest of Canada as well. I say this an Ontarian, helplessly anglophone. He was a great Canadian, important, possibly batshit crazy with a messiah complex, and controversial all the same. But the government of Canada from the early days of John A. MacDonald and the RCMP all the way to today have treated the Native population like shit, and we need to celebrate these champions of the downtrodden and disenfranchised no matter how flawed their character may be.

Family Day is a provincial holiday occurring on the third Monday in February in Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and P.E.I. In Manitoba and P.E.I. it’s called Louis Riel Day and Islander Day, respectively. BC, ever the unique little snowflake, celebrates Family Day on the second...

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"FUCKMYLIFE666" from the awesome new Against Me! album, Transgender Dysphoria Blues.

Against Me! - Live on Letterman

Rocks, don’t it?

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There's a club that has me as a member!

Household described himself as “a sort of bastard by Stevenson out of Conrad”, and the literary genealogy for Rogue Male seems clear enough. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped (1886) began the “hunted-man” genre. John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) updated it for an age of geopolitics and aerial surveillance. Graham Greene’s A Gun for Sale (1936) extended its geographies and reversed the logic of pursuit, so the assassin became the quarry. From these writers Household learned the skill of pacing and the propulsive narrative power of the chase.

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I first read Rogue Male 20 years or so ago, rapidly and unreflectively, pulled onwards by its plot. It was only later, and on several rereadings, that the complexities of its patterns began to reveal themselves. This is a novel of elaborate design. There are paired concepts – “cover” and “open”, “surface” and “depth” – that repeat and weave. There are motifs – notably sunken tracks, tunnels, and skins/skinning – that recur dozens of times in different forms. And there is a sustained analogy between land and mind, whereby the narrator’s access to his buried emotions is enabled only by means of a literal digging into the Jurassic bedrock of south-west Dorset.

—Robert Macfarlane, from the introduction to his book (co-written with Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards) about Rogue Male, Holloway

The reader who sent in this entry into the Classics and Coffee Club notes that all the items in the photo were “bought in Seoul, KR.” The book itself was purchased at What the Book?, and English-language bookstore.

Do you have a picture of one of our books with coffee or tea (hot or iced)? Send it to this address and we’ll post them here (making you an honorary member of the Classics and Coffee Club).

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A true great, gone too soon. RIP PSH.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you’d be the first person in the history of the world.

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"Should we publish this book?" “Are the words good?” “Yes.” “Okay, let’s publish this book.”

Our office, basically. 

Publishing is a delicate science, you guys.

(via melvillehouse)

Fascinating glimpse into the inner sanctum.

(via greenapplebooks)

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I looked up a factoid from Emily Gould’s book “Friendship” (pre-order now because I read it all and it is good) and guys

guys there are dozens of Disney Duck family trees, several of them conflicting, in many languages

among the Goofies and Petes the females are problematically interchangeable

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“Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they—and all of us—have to be able to think about a world that works differently.”

Samuel Delaney (via likestepsonthemoon)

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Color photos from the set of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

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In Focus: Krampus, St. Nicholas’ Dark Companion

While Saint Nicholas may bring gifts to good boys and girls, ancient folklore in Europe’s Alpine region also tells of Krampus, a frightening beast-like creature who emerges during the Yule season, looking for naughty children to punish in horrible ways — or possibly to drag back to his lair in a sack. In keeping with pre-Germanic Pagan traditions, men dressed as these demons have been frightening children on Krampusnacht for centuries, chasing them and hitting them with sticks, on an (often alcohol-fueled) run through the dark streets.

Read more.