Simply having a wonderful Christmastime.

Guys, Ernest saved Christmas. Don’t let his sacrifice be in vain.

🎅🏼

And Tiny Tim did NOT die? In THIS economy?!

The genocide will continue until morale improves.

It really is about the notes you don’t play

Evergreen.

And so this is Christmas, and what have you done.

Happy merry.

Tiny Tim, who did NOT Die Hard is a Christmas movie.

For about ten years I've thought about what a Tom Waits TV Christmas special produced in the early 80s would have been like. It's almost real to me. The set is a Depression-era shack he built and a stream of celebrity hobos keep knocking on the door and Tom goes "I wOnDEr WHo tHaT cOuLd bE"

The sky above the port was the color of television, Tiny Timmed to a NOT dead channel.

Nothing like a good Dickensian ghost story for a late-night Christmas Eve.

"Yeah, the doctors said lots of people knew Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, but I could recall the most famous reindeer of all and so I aced the cognitive exam."

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, never had any friends later on like the ones he had when he was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?

ONLY YULE

Imagine being a kid wanting to hear about Santa on Christmas Eve and you’re stuck talking to this ghoulish asshole.

“Wouldst thou like to live deliciously, Ebenezer Scrooge?”

If you see this, post your favorite “Star Wars” character.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die

Ooh! I’ve seen most, but I don’t think all of these. Will be good to remedy that!

Finally watching the last Mission Impossible, only because I’ve been assured it’s the final reckoning.

Join us tomorrow night for the final night of this month's spotlight: Divine Intervention. We're watching The Archers' A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946)...a *very* interesting film about life, death, love, afterlife...and big-ass staircase. Film begins at 8pE, go light on the eggnog. #TCMParty ^JW

Tidings of comfort AND joy? In THIS economy?!

if you're cold, they're cold. bring them inside. prints here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmo... happy holidaysssss

Treat yourself today to this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydvU...

Lynch remains kind of a model for me in a lot of ways for how you can write unflinchingly about human evil while maintaining the worth of human goodness

Very minor Pluribus season finale spoiler

Do you suppose Jacob Marley’s spirit is still damned to wander the earth for all eternity?

Listening to Patrick Stewart’s delightful reading of A Christmas Carol.

I’m sure all the people who were very concerned about wokescold mobs destroying academic freedom are super vocally upset about this

Reports coming in from New Zealand that Santa used ChatGPT to compile the nice list; thousands of presents have been delivered to children who don’t exist

Write the stories you want to write. Because then, no matter what happens, no matter what markets are or aren’t there, you’ll at least have written the stories you want to write.

“It’s the new Jeffrey Epstein jet.” Kristi Noem “posting a fun video in front of caged, tatted men.” Look how Bari Weiss’ The Free Press wrote about CECOT — the El Salvador megaprison Trump shipped people to — just months before she stopped the 60 Minutes segment on it: zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

Whoever buys it, Netflix or Skydance, should know, the HBO Max app is a piece of janky shit.

Found your Christmas present

even more controversial advice: write to the market, yes, but be cautious - very cautious - about what ink you use. If they reply, approach the market, but with caution, and DO NOT EAT OR DRINK ANYTHING THERE well, unless you want to spend the next century partying with goblins. In which case, eat!

Do your best of 2025 lists include Kaleidotrope? Don't you want them to? 😉 kaleidotrope.net/archives/kal...

As a rule, I don’t do best of year lists until after the year is over.

Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Hey peeps, many library cards will give you free access to Kanopy! Here are some horror movies they have in their library: The Vourdalak, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Train to Busan, Exhuma, Let the Right One In, The Wicker Man, Birth/Rebirth, Titane, Late Night With the Devil, Ganja & Hess.

Looking for a last-minute holiday gift? Recommend to somebody a story or poem from Kaleidotrope. They’re all free to read—but hey, they don’t have to know that!

Suggestion regarding Trump-Epstein: Don't focus on finding a smoking gun. There's already so much smoke. Most unconvinced by already-public evidence are cultists who'll deny forever (or like it). The goals should be truth, justice for victims, and an appalled scandal drumbeat that never goes away.