Thought of the day, courtesy of Primus

In keeping with the season:
What if Christmas didn’t come this yearAnd no one paid for Christmas cheer? Who would cry the biggest tear,The child or the store?

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Merry Christmas from LucasFilm(TM)

 
The website Slashfilm has posted a nice compilation of Christmas Cards handed out by Lucasfilm over the years. 

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Christmas with Washington Irving

This time of year everyone digs out their CDs of Christmas music and their DVDs of their favorite Christmas films.  I also dig out my favorite Christmas books.  Of course A Christmas Carol by Dickens is a yearly staple, but I also reach for a classic that few relate to Christmas:  Washington Irving’s The Sketch [...]

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World Christmas Summit 2007

We, the appointed leaders of the world (full names, titles, and countries of origin of participants and signers are listed in appendix A), have voluntarily gathered in this month of December, 2007, to come to an accord on the adoption of new worldwide rules and regulations for the observation and celebration of the holiday of [...]

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It’s the most artificial time of the year.

Today I arose an hour or so before the rest of my family, which is customary on weekend mornings.  I plopped down on the couch and surfed the morning news/entertainment shows.  Good Morning America was doing live cut-ins from Small Town, USA to show some Christmas festivities.  
The GMA host on the scene introduced the one [...]

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