Breaking News: The Obamas will be eating what they've always eaten on Christmas
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J.S. Bach – Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 – Part I 'For the First Day of Christmas'
Th Thanh Ha tweeted the following on Christmas Eve: Our first holiday season with little baby Felix. Merry Christmas everyone But he also linked to this, which is a sufficiently beautiful piece of seasonal music that I'm making it available here:
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Snippets from <em>Miracle on 34th Street</em>
Miracle on 34th Street continues to stand as one of the greatest Christmas movies ever made — but watch it closely; it's about more than just Christmas. Here's some dialogue snippets from it (spoiler alert!): Fred Gailey (about child Susan Walker; he's sweet on her mom): “I see she doesn't believe in Santa Claus either. [...]
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Christmas Eve oddness as seen in tweets
Notable incident no. 1: 60-something guy in Honda Civic bulls way thru pedestrians on a walklight … to gain about 3 seconds. Merry Christmas, putz. Seriously. There's no need for this kind of behaviour. And once the guy — who had a very self-absorbed glint in his eyes — broke through the “obstacle” of pedestrians [...]
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