via NYT:
…bummed as false merriment and gift obligations render him, Scott Martin — landscape architect and tree hugger in a literal sense — was unnerved by the sight of post-Christmas trees lying about like so much discarded sausage casing.
What people really ought to do, he reasoned, was rent a Christmas tree, and return it, alive, to the nursery after the season.
Mr. Martin’s idea, enabled by a rotten economy that made his free time greater and his potential labor pool deeper, is now manifest in his new business delivering live, potted Christmas trees that are taken away once the toys have been unwrapped and, possibly, already broken, and the New Year’s confetti has been swept away.
6:30am – Jon & Kate Plus 8 (TLC)
7:00am – A Very Brady Christmas (1988) (ABC Family)
9:00am – Christmas Town (2008) (ABC Family)
11:30am – Charlie & Lola (Disney)
12:00pm – All-Star Holiday Cookies (Food)
12:00pm – Mr. St. Nick (2002, Kelsey Grammer) (Hallmark)
2:00pm – Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (ABC Family)
2:00pm – Debbie Macomber’s Mrs. Miracle (2009, James Van Der Beek, Doris Roberts) (Hallmark)
2:30pm – Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (ABC Family)
4:00pm – Fallen Angel (2003, Gary Sinise, Joely Richardson) (Hallmark)
5:00pm – Casper’s Haunted Christmas (2000) (Cartoon Network)
6:00pm – The Story of the First Christmas Snow (1993) (ABC Family)
6:00pm – Ebbie (1995, Susan Lucci) (Hallmark)
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May be one of the most beautiful renditions, ever. Just heard this Tuesday.
Feel as though this should be playing in the background at the end of a Sopranos Christmas episode.
Animal Crackers are not really crackers, but cookies that were imported to the United States from England in the late 1800s. Barnum’s circus-like boxes were designed with a string handle so that they could be hung on a Christmas tree.
Gizmodo did an incredible job of selecting 107 photos from their readers.
American billionaire Ross Perot tried to airlift 28 tons of medicine and Christmas gifts to American POW’s in North Vietnam in 1969.
You better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
I’m telling you why
Santa Pimp is coming to town
He’s making a list
And checking it twice;
Gonna find out Who’s naughty and nice
Santa Pimp is coming to town
He sees you when you’re sleeping
He knows when you’re awake
He knows if you’ve been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake!
O! You better watch out!
You better not cry
Better not pout
I’m telling you why
Santa Pimp is coming to town
