On 1st day of Christmas … I decorated my tree with 15 new pop culture ornaments incl. Home Alone, Schroeder (Peanuts) +Scooby-Doo!, Monsters Inc., Sonic the Hedgehog + The Golden Girls

(via Shutterstock) It will be pretty obvious if you have even so much as glanced at my blog, that I love pop culture everything. I spend my days, when I am not forced to work to pay for everything pop culture-oriented, watching movies, streaming shows, listening to music, reading books Continue Reading

Songs, songs and more festive songs #119: Brett Eldredge & Kelly Clarkson, Ingrid Michaelson & Jason Mraz, Jeff Goldblum & the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, Canaan Cox + Alice Merton

(via Shutterstock) There’s so much Christmas music released each year, and while it’s a joy to a Christmas-a-holic like me, it can get challenging to get to it all, let along let yourself festively soak in it. So, I’ve picked four of the tracks that really struck a chord with Continue Reading

Festive comic review: The Flintstones: Christmas in Bedrock (with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm)

Published in 1965, The Flintstones: Christmas in Bedrock is a fun-filled romp through a good old-fashioned Santa-is-in-peril-only-YOU-can-save-Christmas storyline. In this case, the “YOU” is good old Fred Flintstone who, after a trip out into the forest to get a Christmas tree – forgot the axe? Don’t worry! Bamm-Bamm has a Continue Reading

Brilliantly imaginative festive fun and healing: The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland by Carys Bexington (story) and Kate Hindley (illustrations)

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) In this postmodern, mash-up obsessed, creatively synergistic digital age of ours, it’s fun to see what really imaginative people will do when they mix their own highly original ideas with an existing, much-loved story. Case in point is The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland by Carys Continue Reading