Sean Beaudoin compiles the dozen best people of the year—drawn from the avalanche of overall excellence we experienced as a culture. Also, their less impressive counterparts.
10 Books to Get You in the Holiday Spirit
December 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Read these books to get in touch with the holidays in your heart.
10 Things I Want for Christmas
December 4, 2012 By 2 Comments
My list for Santa is a little different than most.
Attempting to Make Christmas Not Suck This Year
December 3, 2012 By 13 Comments
No amount of repenting and stretching and bitching is going to change anything. We are already all right.
25 Ways of Thinking About the Holidays
January 8, 2012 By 2 Comments
In the first Love, Recorded of 2012, Matt looks back at the holidays, the baby turns 6-months-old and vulnerable, and the family plays Sleeping Lions. ♦◊♦ 1. When I was growing up, we spent most Christmases at the house my parents got as a wedding present from my great aunt, who lived through three nominal [...]
Dear Santa: My Son Won’t Leave Occupy Boston
November 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
An Occupier and his mother write letters to Santa Claus.
From Slim Goodbody to the Fresh Beats
July 31, 2011 By 16 Comments
Chris Illuminati is more upset than a grown man should be when an actor on a kids’ TV show gets replaced.
A Jewish Santa
December 24, 2010 By 2 Comments
For a few hours one Sunday a year I get to be the most special person in the lives of a few hundred 4-year olds. Can anything be better than that?
Wordless Wednesday Ho Ho Ho
December 22, 2010 By 14 Comments
The 10 at 10: December 20
December 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The New York Post outdoes itself, Santa robs a bar, and guys escape from prison in helicopter: the 10 at 10.
The Santa Story Revisited
November 29, 2010 By 2 Comments
An excerpt from Arita Trahan’s book, which offers a new way to teach children about Santa.
“There is a push for women to be their most genuine selves, and yet now there is makeup for men!?”
This is a comment by Cameron Brown on the post “Makeup for Men? Why?”