What’s Christmas without your favorite version of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens? Death, humor, supernatural creatures, time travel–this story has everything!…
It’s not Christmas till Father Christmas gives weapons to children.
And on the sledge sat a person whom everyone knew the moment they set eyes on him. He was a…
It’s not Christmas till Hans Gruber falls from Nakatomi Plaza.
When you hear the big, bad sound of Run-D.M.C.’s Christmas in Hollis and think of Argyle dropping John McClane off in Nakatomi…
It’s not Christmas till Lucy saves Peter from getting run over by a train.
Few romantic comedies warm our hearts as much as While You Were Sleeping, am I right? …Well, I’m pretending you said…
It’s not Christmas till Shaun Spencer guesses what his dad got him for Christmas.
Psych is maybe my all-time favorite tv show, and they made some excellent Christmas episodes. The series (if, you know,…
The Mary Celeste is found adrift under full sail (Dec 5, 1872)
Here is the prototypical “ghost ship” that other ghost ship stories are based on. The Mary Celeste departed from New…
It’s not Christmas till Margaret Schlegel helps Mrs. Wilcox with her Christmas shopping.
Loads of people have commemorated Christmas in fiction many, many (MANY!) times, so we’re doing a little series here called…
It’s not Christmas till Adam Sandler sings the Hannukah Song.
Yeah, maybe it’s not “Christmas-y” in the “technical” sense, but I get really reassured when this song comes up…
C. S. Lewis Day (29 Nov).
29 November 1898 is the birthday of C.S. Lewis, or Jack to his friends–and that’s definitely us. Well, me. It’s…
Sam Becket leaps home for Thanksgiving. (Nov 25, 1969)
Happy Almost Thanksgiving! One of my favorite Thanksgiving scenes of all time is the one from Quantum Leap. In Season…
