Is this fair? According the Guinness this display has more lights than any other in the world. But it’s in Australia…and they build a structure (or two) to string lights on. Where’s the challenge in that? Give me a good tree with 25,000 lights on branch-by-branch over a gratuitous display like this any day of […]
The Great Christmas Light Video parade is started! And who says you have to light just a house? How about a whole neighborhood? On Jeff Maxey’s street every single house decided to participate in a massive Christmas lights show. Getting one house to turn its lights on and off in unison to music is hard […]
How can a song with up to 80 original verses be considered a Christmas song? (Or how can it not?) In it’s original form Hallelujah contained several Biblical references. Hallelujah was written in 1984 by Leonard Cohen and has gone on to great fame with covers by several artists. Last year, we were given this […]
We’ve got Movember….and now we’ve got Christmas Beards — the festive decorating of, um, facial hair. And why not? We got ugly Christmas sweaters, and now Christmas suits. What’s wrong with a festive beard? After all, Santa has a beard. For that matter, so does Jesus. So too did Charles Dickens. Anyone see a Christmas […]
Dear Ernest (on behalf of Elf Dr. Lionel, head of the North Pole Medical Center), What happens if Santa gets sick on Christmas Eve? Savannah Magnolia, NC USA That’s a really good question and, honestly, it is one we ask and worry about all the time here at the North Pole. We have discussed it […]
Christmas is likely the most diverse celebration in all the world. It is celebrated in one form or another in every country of the world. It has the longest known history of any holiday. So it comes as a surprise that when most people are surveyed about the common things of Christmas – they get […]
Dear Elf Ernest (on behalf of Elf Agent X, Santa’s head of Secret Spies), Who or what does a secret spy for Santa spy on? Maggie Commerce City, USA Excellent question! A secret spy for Santa keeps his eye on everything thinking day and night about Santa coming to where they are. They are looking […]
A new article in TIME magazine today opines that Christmas should not be a holiday and that, in fact, no religious observance should be a federal holiday. In so doing they fail to look at what established Christmas as a holiday in America in first place. It was not an outcry of religious fervor. Christmas […]
Dear Ernest (on behalf of Elf Victor, Santa’s head of Reindeer Operations), What do the reindeer do for fun? Cameron Washburn, USA Reindeer are very physical animals. They love to run. They love to jump. They love to play with each other. It is hard to understand some times what they are doing. They are […]
Being the 100 year anniversary of The Christmas Truce we’ve heard and seen a lot in emotional ways of that great Christmas event. The video for the song was filmed at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey and contains original footage from WW1. In addition to the soloists and choir, the video […]
