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Entries by Jeff Westover
Australia Loves Their Lego Christmas
It is summer in Australia. So it might be the perfect place to construct a ginormous Christmas tree made only of Legos. This time lapse video shows the process of putting the tree and its ornaments together in what has become a festive tradition in the city of Melbourne:
Christmas Haters
There is a whole new generation of Christmas lovers out there and they face things a lot of us older Christmas fanatics have never had to endure: the Christmas Hater. The following video is from a very popular YouTube star, Colleen Ballinger, who is talented, funny and — it turns out — a Christmas lover. […]
Johnson Light Show Fires Up in San Antonio
The Johnson Family Christmas Lights are pretty famous. They were a hit in San Antonio long before being featured on the Great Christmas Light Fight. This display likes to bill itself as “non-traditional” and right away it smacks the viewer as something very different. They explain: There are no inflatables, characters, blow molds, or other […]
Stevie Wonder and Andra Day Sing Someday at Christmas
This Christmas season is already carrying dark marks of distress. From rumored wars to the Pope’s comments about Christmas being a charade to protesters taking down Christmas trees it seems there’s an edge to this season we have not seen in a very, very long time. Perhaps one of the lost messages of Christmas was […]
The First Christmas Tree in England
It was the British royal family’s German connections which led to the introduction of the Christmas tree custom in England. King George III’s wife, Queen Charlotte — who was of German descent– arranged for a great yew tree to be erected inside the Queen’s Lodge at Windsor on December 25 1800. A party of children […]
Katy Perry’s Forgettable Christmas Song
Some are saying this is the new viral video of Christmas. We cannot imagine why. This video is emblematic of nearly everything wrong with Christmas today. It’s boring, it’s over-the-top, it is commercial and there is nothing original about it. But you’re going to watch it anyway because it’s Katy Perry. Oh, and the music? […]
Ancient Connections of Thanksgiving and Christmas
Here is some fodder for your Thanksgiving day discussions around the turkey — which is the more sacred holiday in America, Thanksgiving or Christmas? Check your learning of history at the door. This history of both holidays goes back further than you know — and both are related to each other in significant ways. Watch […]
Singing with Drumsticks
For three years we have avoided sharing this video. That’s how much we don’t like this song. But, nearly 20 million views over three years makes this song something of a tradition — to somebody out there. It comes from Nicole Westbrook who uses — no kidding — a turkey leg as a microphone to […]
Mistletoe Research
So what happens if you pretend to be a survey taker and your tool of the trade is mistletoe? Here’s a famous prank duplicated now the world over:
