This is not, as mentioned hereintofore, a food blog. But special times call for special measures, and it is time to speak of holiday food. Every family has its particular recipes at this time of year, whether they be for sausage gravy, lefse, fruitcake, or alcoholic enhancer to pour into the punch and/orContinue reading “Tricky Treats (Wrong Holiday)”
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Entirely Disinterested Gift Guide
Gather round, kiddledybooks! It is that time you wait breathlessly for: the appearance of Uncle Blogsy’s Annual Holiday Shopping Guide! We will once again…..What’s that? You don’t recall Uncle Blogsy’s Annual Holiday Shopping Guide from last year? Listen, mistletoe meatball, these annual traditions have to get their start somewhere. You didn’t realize you’d beenContinue reading “Entirely Disinterested Gift Guide”
Carol of the Yells
I admit that, despite my omnipresence on the Interwebs, that I am not in the mainstream of pop culture. I am kept so busy producing brilliant work that I have o time to attend to the alerts on radio, TV, and social media. So I do not know yet what this year’s big controversyContinue reading “Carol of the Yells”
Screen Scrooges: Sufferings of the Late Mr. Marley
“It is required of every man,” the Ghost returned, “that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world-ah, woe is me!-and witnessContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Sufferings of the Late Mr. Marley”
Screen Scrooges: Jacob Marley
After several turns, he sat down again. As he threw his head back in the chair, his glance happened to rest upon a bell, a disused bell, that hung in this room, and communicated for some purpose now forgotten with a chamber in the highest story of the building. It was with great astonishment,Continue reading “Screen Scrooges: Jacob Marley”
SCREEN SCROOGES: Ebenezer’s Front Door
Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker’s book, went home to bed. He lived in chambers which had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pileContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Ebenezer’s Front Door”
SCREEN SCROOGES: All Day Tomorrow?
At length the hour of shutting up the counting-house arrived; with an ill-will Scrooge dismounted from his stool, and tacitly admitted the fact to the expectant clerk in the Tank, who instantly snuffed his candle out and put on his hat. “You’ll want all day tomorrow, I suppose?” said Scrooge. “If quiteContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: All Day Tomorrow?”
SCREEN SCROOGES: The Charity Solicitors
This lunatic, in letting Scrooge’s nephew out, had let two other people in. They were portly gentlemen, pleasant to behold, and now stood, with their hats off, in Scrooge’s office. They had books and papers in their hands, and bowed to him. “Scrooge and Marley’s, I believe,” said on of the gentlemen, referringContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: The Charity Solicitors”
SCREEN SCROOGES: Fred
“A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge’s nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach. “Bah!” said Scrooge. “Humbug!” He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew ofContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Fred”
Santa Blogs XXXVII
You fat old mountebank: Remember me? I’m the one whose mom kept getting me classic secondhand children’s books like Pollyanna and Honey Bunch and the Dachshund of Doom when what I ASKED for were graphic novels about the zombie apocalypse. I wrote to my uncle, suggesting he look into collectibles, figuring he was loadedContinue reading “Santa Blogs XXXVII”
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