By John Ballard
I've been busy this week with Christmas stuff and a variety of personal chores, and today I'm catching up with reading. Here's what I'm into...
Via The Arabist
Book Report, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Short story of the title page A Spoiled Man The Swiss screw-up (and' [...]
Whether you’re a secular humanist or a devout southern baptist, the winter holiday has always been a fascinating time. It also provides a platform for events that you certainly won’t find any other time of the year (Tuba Christmas anyone?). If you were somehow able to [...]
Tax Alert by the Taxpayer Association of Oregon,Shawn Findley of Salem came home one night to find many of Christmas lawn decorations stolen. Because the same thing happened last year, he was prepared with video surveillance which showed two teen boys raiding his lawn about 9:30pm. Unfortunately, the video was not clear enough to make out more [...]
The Bend Bulletin ran an article this week taking in various opinions on what is the most environmentally best Christmas tree a family should buy. Nationally, during the popular NY Rockefeller Christmas Tree lighting ceremony they are asking people to Text for a Tree [...]
The Emerald Magazine came out today.. as an insert.
I for one am thoroughly outraged at the under representation of one very important part of the holiday season.
Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Korean present wrapping traditions…
Where is winter solstice?
GAP understands me.
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A sluggish economic climate, low wholesale prices and less consumer demand all spell trouble for Christmas tree farms across Oregon. In 2008, 7.34 million trees were sold in Oregon, propelling a $110 billion industry and the No. 1 producer of Christmas trees in [...]
It’s been Christmas season for a couple of weeks. Now that Thanksgiving is out of the way, we can focus our full attention on the marketing of good cheer to the good ol’ USA.
Man, that sounds curmudgeonly.
I have issues with Christmas. I was raised in a [...]
Holiday play season’s back, and Portland Center Stage puts on a particularly well done ‘A Christmas Carol’ this year. It balances really nicely between the lighthearted whimsy (which of course Dickens is well known for) and the depressing ‘ghosts of Christmas past’. It’s a great [...]
Toymaker, Playskool, is pushing their giant size dinosaur as the perfect gift for your child this Christmas. Only $250.00! It is big enough that you can sit on it. It also plays music (at $250.00 it better do something extra!).
I have to ask myself just [...]
Unless you’ve been purposefully avoiding downtown, you should have noticed that the Christmas…er…”holiday” lights have been up for a while already. Just recently some little conifers in wooden planters appeared along the sidewalks, each one' [...]
Faith-Family Film Rview: A Christmas Carol
by Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
A Christmas Carol—Lavish, well-crafted but frequently eerie 3-D animated adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic 1843 novella in which miserly misanthrope Ebenezer Scrooge (voice of Jim Carrey) is urged to change his ways by [...]
