My aunt, who has very decided ideas about cat fashion (in that she believes it exists, and should be pursued) is visiting my parents' house for Christmas, as I am. She decided that Bingley did not look appropriately festive.* And so...


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For an assignment, I'm trolling Youtube for early silent versions of A Christmas Carol. This one claims to be the earliest, from 1901. Only half of it (about 3 1/2 minutes) is said to survive, so I could easily tell you to go watch it, but I'll cut straight to the point instead - how awesome is the set decoration?

This is the Cratchits' house:

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Hello, dears. Two things on the agenda today.

1) I'm doing some research on "book trailers" for young adult fantasy novels. So far I've found official, publisher-authorized trailers for Maggie Stiefvater's books (gorgeous), Kristin Cashore's Graceling (laughably dreadful), and Cassandra Clare's City of Glass (bland).* I know many of you are fans ( Read more... )

To all who celebrate: I wish you a warm, magical, and joy-filled day ♥


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I walked by this in Borders today and laughed out loud:


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Everyone has got the jump on me with this, but now that... *drum roll* my seminar papers are done! *pause for gasps and applause* ...I can finally turn my attention to other things. Like holiday cards :)

If you want one and think there's a chance I don't have your address, please leave a (screened) comment! Those with multiple addresses should ( Read more... )

I feel like I've had a million ideas for posts in the past week and no initiative to actually sit down and write any of them. So this is a catch-all, or perhaps I should say catch-up ( Read more... )

by Henry Van Dyke

It is a good thing to observe Christmas day. The mere marking of times and seasons, when men agree to stop work and make merry together, is a wise and wholesome custom. It helps one to feel the supremacy of the common life over the individual life. It reminds a man to set his own little watch, now and then, by the great clock of ( Read more... )

I was going through a drawer of old papers this morning when I happened upon something just meant for December 24th! I must have photocopied it from The New Yorker in the heady days of my X-Files fangirling.

( Look, Scully, it's just like the other homes: Douglas fir, truncated, mounted, transformed into a shrine... )