Shopping malls everywhere compete for bragging rights all the time but here’s one that needs more competition — the Lego Christmas tree. If ever there was a real holiday contest to be waged, it’s this one. Who can build the biggest one? One mall in Australia has it down to a science apparently. This video […]
Not everyone is complaining about Christmas coming. In fact, some are just giddy about it. Here is Exhibit A of a guy in his car barely able to contain his excitement:
Ten guys — all tenors — channeling their best Mariah. What could be better than that? This is really nicely done. See their website.
While the world embroils itself in constant debates and controversies each holiday season and calls it the War on Christmas the skirmishes over Thanksgiving get a pass. That is mostly because the debates of Thanksgiving rage about food. There is no greater debate at Thanksgiving than the one of stuffing versus dressing. Which do you […]
The social media buzz in early November about Christmas and Thanksgiving is out of control this year. The Starbucks thing is insane, the Santa glacier deal was just weird and now this effusive praise for Nordstrom’s is out of control. You haven’t heard about this? Nordstrom’s is being praised for not decorating for Christmas before […]
Dating back 65 years in time this is astonishing footage from a Christmas parade in 1950 from Simcoe, Ontario, Canada in fully remastered glory:
Christmas cards began, as many traditions do, in Victorian England. In the early 1840s John Colcott Horsley printed what we would commonly call a post card today for his friend, Sir Henry Cole, who had the idea for sending his friends a greeting wishing them a Happy Christmas. The idea took off while Europe clamored […]
This would be something to see — a 100 foot tall Christmas tree that you walk inside of. Here’s some drone footage of the tree going up and a tease of what it might look like when finished:
I am not a coffee drinker. And I will tell you straight up, I’ve dealt with Starbucks on the business end and I think little of them. My personal opinion of their products is that they sell an over-priced offering that has zero appeal to me. Yes, I’ve been in a few of their locations […]
The management of South Park Mall in Charlotte, North Carolina got the message loud and clear: nobody liked Santa’s new digs this year. As reported earlier, the mall erected a new Santa set called the “Glacier Santa Experience”, which burst forth with light at random times and featured Santa huddled in a snow cave ready […]
