A Very Weird Christmas Care Package for Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020

Hey, y’all? I thought I could do it. Twenty-five days of swimming in the schlock-filled pool of Christmas counterculture. But I feel like I’m drowning in festive garbage here, so today is the last Very Weird Christmas Care Package. I’m broken. Tomorrow I’ll switch things up and go through Christmas Day with a different take …

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A DATE WITH HISTORY: Friday, Dec. 15, 1989

In the Top Ten: Blame It On The Rain by Milli Vanilli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI5IA8assfk On the Bestseller List: Swan Lake by Mark Helprin Photo credit: abebooks.com New In Theaters: The Wizard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6mRWG0ZN2Y New In Comic Shops: Batman #442 Photo credit: mycomicshop.com On TV: Mancuso, FBI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OhtcAwAXfo Magazine Roulette: Beer Photo credit: library.sva.edu Zodiac/Horoscope: Click here Photo …

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Care Package for Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020

Poetry: Polar Night by Lewis WarshMaybe if you could see yourselffrom a distanceyou could see what people see when they see you up closeRead More Song In My Head: Everyday I Write the Book by Elvis Costello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1d4r9awjKE Art: Gerald Laing’s Skydiver VI Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage …

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A Very Weird Christmas Care Package for Monday, Dec. 14, 2020

We’re well into the holiday season, and it’s already one of the weirdest we’ve ever experienced. If you don’t know why, consider yourself lucky. Instead of resisting the bizarre atmosphere we’re living through, I figured, why not lean into it and have some fun? Christmas has long been a secret haven of the strange, and …

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A DATE WITH HISTORY: Friday, Dec. 14, 1979

In the Top Ten: Babe by Styx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBi61pgDUP8 On the Bestseller List: Provenance by Frank McDonald Photo credit: amazon.com New In Theaters: The Jerk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lduFFNqBFPs New In Comic Shops: Casey Ruggles: King of the Horsemen Photo credit: mycomicshop.com On TV: Eischied https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHxI6Dmf2ow Magazine Roulette: Ranger Rick Photo credit: mycomicshop.com Zodiac/Horoscope: Click here Photo credit: pinterest.com …

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