Just remembered that we have crackers

Glorious. The light still shines

Oh heck yes. My daughter and my wife collaborated on this gift. Original Burger King LOTR goblet!

I got three months of the Criterion Channel from Aletheia with a note to “use responsibly”

“In becoming man, Jesus took upon himself our fragility.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

If you're not familiar with his murals in Millvale the best ones are Christ being lanced by a soldier and Our Lady breaking a bayonet in a rage. Notice the crucifixes on the soldiers, the Sacred Heart badges.

Always in awe of Maxo Vanka

Tiny Tim, who did NOT DIE

Glad our parish does a livestream even though it’s not the same as being there, makes it feel like we’re not missing out as much

Despite the flu I am trying to make lasagna for dinner. Let’s see how this bold move works out for me. Got the bolognese simmering

Christmas, a woodcut by Emma Schlangenhausen, 1933.

Welp

Reminder that this is free to watch and is pretty great. Rick Steves is the best youtu.be/vVVTDwxJBWU

This is a conspiracy to keep me from going to midnight Mass. Happened last year as well. Maybe if I scale back plans it won’t?

Merry Christmas to everyone with a stomach virus rampaging through their family right now, solidarity from my pukers to yours

Adoration of the Magi by Lu Hongnian, mid-20th century.

“Christmas” by Maurice Denis, 1894.

Nativity by Le Pho, 1941.

Unironically, I think movies that look like this are closer to the spirit of ancient myths and epics than the trailer for Nolan’s Odyssey is

I have never seen any of the Avatar movies, mostly because I don’t like how those alien guys look

Prairie Call to Cold Company (A Northern Nativity) William Kurelek 1975

The best Muppet Christmas special is Muppet Family Christmas, and the funniest scene in it is when the Swedish Chef decides to murder Big Bird for Christmas dinner

Christmas cards circa the 1930s by Wiktoria Goryńska (1902-1945), woodcut artist and member of the Polish resistance movement against Nazi occupation during WWII. She was killed at Ravensbrück.

Mood

Possibly my favorite sight gag in any of the Muppet movies

Something I drew a few years back

Calling yourself a Heritage American sounds like you’d be really tasty after a good marinating session and six hours in the smoker, tbh

I have two Christmas playlists. This one open.spotify.com/playlist/32L...

Wild Boar Piglet by Hans Hoffmann, 1578.

Small, playful etchings of the Madonna and Child by Cornelis Schut, 1600s.

Christmas Day by Allan Rohan Crite, 1955

Madonna of the Fir Tree by Marianne Stokes, 1925.

Christmas by Jan Wydra, 1925.

Korean vegetable rice bowls for dinner

The Flight into Egypt by Hans Thoma, 1876.

I bet he could make bank by introducing the official Donald J. Trump Peel ‘n’ Stick Home Redecoration Kit

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

Got one of those horrible, messy “dig a gem or gold out of this powdery bar” toys as a prize for the scout troop Christmas party without considering that maybe one of my own kids would win it.

“Happy holidays! Remember…” looking around furtively and lowering her voice “Santa is watching. He see’s if you’ve been BAD or GOOD. So WATCH OUT.” —Older lady at Meijer to me this morning, out of nowhere

Would be a really tremendous couples costume

No I do not want to open Adobe Bridge. I have never once wanted to open Adobe Bridge

Tried to get a picture of Yzma sitting in a ray of sunlight but she immediately bolted

Stained glass window of the Visitation by Stanislaw Wyspianski, c. 1902-1906.

The main thing I have had hammered home by the past ten years in politics is that we really need pretty much every government office to be run by boring and anonymous nerds who you will never once hear about in the news

I lived in San Francisco when this book came out and Daniel Handler read it on local tv. His rendition of the latke’s scream was so jolting and loud that the morning tv crew were visibly startled. childrenslitpilgrim.substack.com/p/the-latke-...

Here’s the link to the article for those wanting to read www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

Illustrations from the book Christmas Pictures by Children (1922) which featured artwork by the students of Austrian educator Franz Čižek with an introduction by famed illustrator Edmund Dulac. The book includes artwork by students aged 6-16, and they are very impressive!

"The Visitation" by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910.

Harlem by Elanor Ruth Colburn, 1937.

Madonna and Child by Pompeo Batoni, c. 1760.