"If you see it in The Sun it's so"

"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. "Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. "Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.' "Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? "VIRGINIA O'HANLON. "115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET." VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They ...

No Nightmare Because of Christmas

Originally published at The Searcher Journal . You can comment here or there . PC110022 , originally uploaded by KierDuros . When Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas hit the screens, it very quickly became one of my all-time favorite holiday films. Mostly because it had my favorite holiday (Halloween, in case you can’t tell) blended in with the much more popular one. ...

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OH GOD THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED. OMG. This scene is so intense! God, way to deliver, Glee! GOD, end of Baby-gate. THANK GOD. And he left, THANK GOD. Just, so much THANK YOU, TV GODS/CREATORS OF GLEE! Honestly, this is exactly what I wanted. FUCKING UNFORGIVABLE, TERI. UNFORGIVABLE. And well acted, Matthew, with the crying and the PISSED OFF. I seriously can't have been the only one who...

way off in the distance they rang a bell

I don't know why I have this tendency to make LJ updates at stupid places and times. I haven't written anything in a week because I keep trying to write about Hong Kong and failing; it defies glib description, and profound is beyond me. I have been back a few days now, and I am still getting up at astonishing hours of my own accord - so that's what seven am looks like, etc. - and I keep ...

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Yuletide, and assorted other things

New Year's Eve. I was drunk, mostly. For one thing, the Mousehole is full of life - foreverdirt and vampire_kitten are visiting, and the day seemed to pass in a whirl of terrible jokes, sexual subtext-and-text, and pizza, oh god, so much pizza - and I had meant to do some work, and failed entirely at that. And then the evening part of the Eve, during which I sat in the corner of...

Yuletide 2008 Recs! [Round 1]

Fandoms: Calvin and Hobbes, Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog , Contact , Diane Duane's Young Wizards. Title and Link: the sandwich story Fandom: Calvin and Hobbes Comments: Calvin grows up. Excerpt: "Hobbes," Calvin says thoughtfully, perched on the sharply slanted roof outside his bedroom window. "Have you always been around?" Hobbes looks very wise and takes a large ...

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

I do believe in Santa Claus. This is what Christmas is all about. www.newseum.org/yesvirginia/

DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.' Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? VIRGINIA O'HANLON. 115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET. VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think ...

Presenting my 3 favorite New York City located Christmas TV specials

"Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus" Animated by the now-late Bill Melendez (so it looked a lot like the Peanuts TV cartoons), this told the tale of 8-year old Virginia O'Hanlon who after being teased by her schoolmates, in 1897 wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Sun newspaper asking if Santa Claus existed for real. Her famous letter would received historic reply . "A Very ...