Cheers to the Holidays

Wrote this years ago (changed the dead links)

Santa Surfin'

Go ahead and indulge in some eggnog: Beat to death 6 eggs, add a cup a sugar and cup a rum and 2 pints of half and half. Mix and pour into a mug. Bring to your computer and drink while viewing the following:

Ken Gunn

Old Jim's site is no more since last year; it's Ken Gunn who's taken over with Old Jim's help. At any rate, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas over there. The holiday tunes remain, but better, plugged in with new giffrics (giff graphics). Leave it on and after a few sips of your drink you'll turn into an ornament of joy. Click on any one of the twelve interactive links of red-and-green and you'll interact with Santas, trees, snowmen and more. Many links offer a click-and-drag Santa’s head around the holiday fun on the page. Why? Why not?


saint-nick.com

After the dizzying hoopla of Old Jim, the tasteful Aristotle's holiday is filled with stories, recipes and a trivia quiz. And it's so user friendly, it's like Internet buttah. Best are the links--from the History Channel to Torah Tots--information sings, flutters, and rings in fact-upon-fact of holiday this-and-that.


whitehouse.gov/president/holiday/whtree/

The White House Christmas tree site is an interesting stop, even though they haven't updated it in years.

Unfortunately, my buddy G.W. is a little behind as all the good stuff is from years ago. However, if you scroll down, you can catch a glamorous look at the presidential ghosts of Christmas pasts from Hoover to Clinton. My favorite image: Robert Laessig's interior painting of the Christmas tree in the Blue Room, not because there are no presidents in the picture, but because it looks like there's a snowstorm inside.


http://www.rollanet.org/~anderson/nightb4p1.html

Most poems aren't done justice until someone's taken them apart and rewritten them. Take Clement C. Moore's Night before Christmas. With over a dozen other versions, each that is strangled so tightly that words, rhymed and jumbled, could would sound to the same to your hard-of-hearing uncle. There's text full of trailer holiday trash in A Redneck's Night Before Christmas. And if you have red and green bags under your eyes, you'll want to take a look the intellectual version, a piece that is certain to deepen those colors under your eyes.


http://www.geocities.com/johnkoji/xmas/

Alone this Christmas Eve? Go ahead and finish your nog grog then click on the Midi link and play karaoke in the language of your choice. Sing your heart out this holiday season.

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