Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone. There are things I want to say about Black Friday, the War on Christmas, and how the multitude of kids no doubt blogging and tweeting and Facebooking what they got for Christmas speaks to a document-the-moment/miss-the-meaning culture we're in, but I can't be bothered. Instead, here's a Christmas tradition I've been maintaining: watching Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.

There's the Cinematic Titanic version:


There's the Elvira version:


There's the MST3k version which initially introduced me to the movie:


And, of course, the original movie itself:


Take care of yourselves,
D-

Story Slam: Gifts and Giving

I was dubbed "the hipster Cinderella" after this story. I'll take that. Might even make it my OKCupid username.

I will not, for a variety of reasons, be posting this story to Facebook.

Story Slam: Family Ties

A brief tale of my hobo grandfather: