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Today, according to trusty Wikipedia, is St. Knut’s Day in Sweden and Finland, which is named for Canute IV, who ruled Denmark from 1080 to 1086 and decreed that Christmas should be celebrated for 20 days. This means that the celebration ends on the 13th of January, when all the little kids gather and take [...]

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(if you’re into that), we’re honored that you’re reading this when you could be tearing into presents or drinking an eggnog eye-opener. At any rate, thanks for being here. We’ll take your presence as a sign that you’re not terribly excited by your Christmas offerings (unless, again, X-mas just isn’t your [...]

Once, during a long road trip around the Pacific Northwest the summer after high school, we stopped at a gas station somewhere near the Idaho-Montana state line, and there he was, ringing up our pump: Jesus. The flowing beard, the stunning eyes, the calm, warm voice, the Arco name tag reading “Jesus”: he had it [...]

We’ve often been told that the two most recognizable fictional characters in the world are the Camel cigarettes Camel and Mickey Mouse, but we bet that the third is Santa Claus. And while we sort of doubt that Mickey ever hawked cigarettes, we’ve got proof that Santa has done some work with big tobacco during [...]

We figured we ought to remind you that it’s the holidays, and you should probably be out shopping, caroling, setting up an eggnog stand or sabotaging a neighbor’s annoyingly bright light display. If you’re all bundled up at home because it’s freezing cold out, though, you should put a costume on something or someone, because [...]

As far as the hierarchy of cultural artifacts goes, Christmas albums are pretty damn near the very bottom, a widely-held opinion that the designers creating Christmas album covers seem to acknowledge by making truly terrible cover art. In attempting to pay homage to that particularly terrible genre of visual artifact, BuzzFeed assembled a listicle of [...]

Beloved Metropolis resident (and Kryptonian by birth) Superman (aka Clark Kent) turns 71 today, though he hasn’t aged a bit. In fact, befitting his “superness,” he actually looks younger now than he did then. The heroic character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first appeared in print on June 30, 1938, and since then [...]

Christmas is in exactly 6 months (which, incidentally, means that last Christmas was 6 months ago), and we hope Santa is taking advantage of these warm summer months to get in some sun. Looking back over his vacation albums (which, mysteriously, we have full access to), we’ve rounded up pictures of 15 Summering Santas.
Santa in [...]

Today is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day, and we’re contemplating the various creative forms in which we might consume our daily dose of peanut butter and jelly. As we scour the Interweb, there are clearly innumerable PBnJ-delivery devices, and since we feel like being inclusive on this most sacred of days, we’ve collected them [...]

No, it’s not the holiday season, but these are a good read. A yuletide log on TV? KFC in Japan? Merry Christmas!
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