Is there a lot of Christmas music out there? There is, in fact, a LOT of Christmas music out there and while we are most often concerned with the albums that come out every year, as you will see in a series of upcoming blog posts reviewing the ones I Continue Reading
Christmas 2020
On 3rd day of Christmas … I listened to A Very Trainor Christmas by Meghan Trainor
Quite possibly more than most seasons, Christmas is a delightful mix of the exuberantly, garrulously colourful and the meditatively, thoughtfully mellow depending on where you land over the course of December 25th and its fun but often hectic lead-up. This duality of feel and tone is reflected beautifully in A Continue Reading
On 2nd day of Christmas … I watched Happiest Season
Coming out is never easy. Immensely freeing and rewarding, yes but not easy, something that becomes even more pronounced a reality at significant times of the year such as Christmas which is already already heavily-laden with expectation and a certain emotional intensity. There is never more apparent that in the Continue Reading
#Christmas book review: The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn
Is Christmas a romantic time of year? That depends very much on who you ask but it is true, at least for the most part for Lily and Dash, two quite different young people who, after a red Moleskine book full of dares sends them running all New York and, Continue Reading
On 1st day of Christmas … I hung 15 new pop culture ornaments on my tree incl. Scooby-Doo!, Roger Rabbit, Onward, Laurel and Hardy + Captain Marvel, A Bug’s Life, Ghostbusters, Star Wars
If any year needs a filled to the tip of the needles Christmas tree, it is this one. (Let’s be honest, all years need festive decorating but 2020 really needs it.) I will admit to the fact that my Christmas in July tree never really came down – it’s a Continue Reading
Life, and Christmas, got you down? Even Santa his down days according to this funny, lovely ad
SNAPSHOTA humorous advertisement directed by Matias & Matias for the Norwegian Postal Service features an angry Julenissen (Santa Claus) who tells his therapist that he feels become outdated and finds himself wishing for those bygone eras in which he was welcomed inside every home across the land. He lauds a Continue Reading
The top ten dares of Dash & Lily ranked for your festive viewing pleasure
SNAPSHOTWhich Dash & Lily dare is the most daring? Once Lily (Midori Francis) challenges Dash (Austin Abrams) to a simple dare via a red notebook, he retaliates with a dare of his own, sparking a series of escalating challenges. Which one was #1? Watch to find out! (synopsis via YouTube Continue Reading
Movie review: Holidate
There is something about the holidays, any holidays really but especially the big ticket, expectations laden ones like Christmas, that almost demand you are happily coupled up. That’s doesn’t necessarily mean you have to be to enjoy them; the very idea is ridiculous and an insult to anyone single on Continue Reading
#Christmas book review: Christmas Cakes & Mistletoe Nights by Carole Matthews
In the deepest, prettiest, warmest and cosiest, tinsel-decked parts of our collective festive soul, there is a part of us that is certain beyond a shadow of a Santa believing doubt that the perfect Christmas is possible and waiting out for us somewhere. In this most remarkable and perfect of Continue Reading
The madcap peril of Bob’s Broken Sleigh (review)
Christmas is, next to Earth and its unending attraction to alien invasion (I swear there’s a queue out by Saturn with armadas lined up one after the other to have a rack at subjugating us), the target of more villains than you can poke a gigantic red-and-white striped candy cane Continue Reading