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Sunday, December 14, 2025
A Mystery at Christmas
Hunter Gatherer Nicholas Bate has just given a helpful nudge.
In addition to nonfiction, I've been slow-reading A Christmas Carol by the incomparable Dickens and In My Father's Court by the always excellent Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Nicholas recommends a Sherlock Holmes mystery.
Great idea!
[And, as the above trailer shows, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot also had some Christmas episodes.]
Saturday, December 13, 2025
A Hard Truth
Steve Layman has a quote from a commencement address by Tom Brokaw that is, I'm sad to say, painfully accurate.
I continue to be stunned by the pettiness that often arises in even the most sophisticated circles.
Friday, December 12, 2025
The Christmas Movie Debate
Here's a list of contenders. Which ones are your top three picks?
- A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott
- A Christmas Carol with Reginald Owen.
- The Bishop's Wife
- Die Hard
- A Christmas Story
- Charlie Brown's Christmas
- Love Actually
- How The Grinch Stole Christmas
- Miracle on 34th Street
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Scrooge
- The Polar Express
- Home Alone
- Elf
- Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
- The Muppets Christmas Carol
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
- Scrooged
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
- Planes Trains and Automobiles
- The Man Who Invented Christmas
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