Mistletoe is perhaps the most backwards of Christmas traditions. Most today associate mistletoe with a Christmas kiss – something that happens now rarely, if spontaneously – and only if mistletoe is included in festive activities (it rarely is anymore). Unlike most traditions of Christmas mistletoe has not really survived into modern times with the esteem […]
The tradition of Christmas cards is a story of constant change and stubborn longevity. For generations experts and the media have predicted Christmas cards would slowly die as a tradition. Instead Christmas cards have persisted as a tradition by changing well with the times. ~ Disputed Origins of Christmas Cards ~ Conventional wisdom, as portrayed […]
Amazon’s Prime Day falls on Father’s Day weekend this year. It could mean a lot for Christmas shoppers in 2021. There are already warnings in the media about two major events affecting the world of shopping: inflation and suffering supply chains. If that’s true, why is Amazon pushing Prime Day on us so early? It […]
Norman Rockwell was an artist who captured American life and culture on his canvas like no one else. Born at the end of the Victorian era his works documented a time when Christmas had evolved tremendously. By the time he passed in 1978 nothing quite said Christmas without Rockwell’s unique take on it. Art was […]
Christmas has stubbornly persisted in these times of pandemic. As the world went into quarantine in the Spring of 2020 many turned the Christmas lights on outside and some put the tree back up. It was a way of coping with sudden changes brought on by isolation and long waits for the return of normalcy. […]
Apple TV+ will soon produce Spirited, a musical retelling of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, according to Collider. The big money project ropes in the talents of Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell to star in the flick. Reynolds will be playing the “Ebenezer Scrooge-like” lead. An additional report from Slash Film says that Oscar Winner Octavia […]
Jingle Bells by Cimorelli just has a total 2020 vibe to it. Performed in a minor key, it is projected as a dark version of the song, one that forever works with a twinkle in the eye: Cimorelli is just parroting a trend in recent years by some creative musicians to put a dark spin […]
December Night is an original Christmas song recently released by pop rock group Winona Avenue. It is obvious that a great deal of work went into the production of this video and the message is one of hope: Whenever an artist reaches out to us personally we get someone on it. While we cannot possibly […]
Covid Christmas is a song that is so far undiscovered on YouTube. It’s brought to us by Kenny K and the Way and, well, it rocks: Less than 400 views on that video at the time this is written. That’s a crime. Kenny K and the Way are awesome. This is the kind of discovery […]
Please Don’t Cancel Christmas is yet another parody about the Covid Christmas – except this one is really well done by Eclipse 6: The Christmas music trends of 2020 are, like everything else of this train-wreck-of-a-year, completely different. First of all, we have never seen a Christmas with so much new music. That’s a good […]
Santa Train is a Patty Loveless Christmas song written for her 2002 Bluegrass, White Snow: A Mountain Christmas album. In this video it is covered wonderfully by The Petersen’s who, despite their youthful, look are actually a veteran group of bluegrass performers out of Branson: Loveless, a native of Pikeville, Ky., where the 110-mile trek […]