Nobody Puts Baby in the Manger!

Fighting the Good Fight Against Those Holiday Blues:

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Merry Christmas to one and all. Hope everyone got what they want and got it with who they love.

Just in case you didn't get what you asked for this year!

Swag Bag

Amongst plenty of other goodies this year, I got a veritable library for Christmas - Vonnegut, Burroughs, Acker, Murakami, Bradbury, Thompson, O'Connor & Bowles. Because the only thing I love more than writing is reading (well there's one other thing but let's keep this PG for the kids). Also, I got something I've wanted since I was 16 - A Misfits 'skull' shirt!

Fighting the Good Fight Against Those Holiday Blues:

Another annual tradition observed here in Terminus is the gathering of a mob of drunken malcontents who dress up as Saint Nick and then 'draft' a random busker to dress as Jesus before chasing him wildly through the streets. The tradition originated back in Terminus during the early 1800s - when every Christmas the city elders would dress as Santa and chase the Irish out of Five Points. Eventually though, after Sherman's Siege of Terminus, they decided to chase out a symbolic representation of Jesus due his refusal to participate in the 'War Between the States'. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle...