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I don’t really get into New Year’s all that much. It is rather artificial, isn’t it, a number on a calendar, over which we indulge in lots of manufactured and hyperbolic hoopla that means little really and seems only to distract us. What is it trying to distract us from, I wonder? What is [...] The Christmas season is upon us and once again we are regaled from Hallowe’en onward with insipid Christmas songs that fill elevators and malls with just enough holiday spirit to make you either gag or buy lots of stuff. I was tired of Christmas three weeks ago! How many times can you listen to [...] Palmer Forness is as gentle a soul as ever there was, I think, and he is, to many children in Eastern North Dakota and Western Minnesota, “The Real Santa Claus.” He got the name “The Real Santa Claus” the first year he played Santa for the West Acres Mall. He had been approached to take [...] Once again I am in receipt of a letter from my friend and persona Brother Jeremiah of the Order of Buile Suibhne (OBS) from whom I have solicited occasional letters on spiritual matters. I had to nudge him a bit after his last letter; he thought he was a bit harsh and might not [...] In spite of being warned not to, Bobby Mahoney has stepped into a faerie circle and been whisked away to Finvarra’s court for his presumption, leaving Margaret, his twelve year old skeptic of a daughter, behind. The storyteller and Guardian of the Invisible World, Moira McCarthy must try to convince the girl of what [...] I see there is another version of A Christmas Carol in the theatres, this one a CG animated cartoon with Jim Carrey in the lead role. I haven’t decided yet whether I’m going to see it. It would be hard to beat Patrick Stewart’s turn in the role of the iconic miser and [...] So now it begins. The Left is angry because Obama is sending troops into Afghanistan instead of pulling them out. The right says 30,000 troups are not enough and putting a time limit on our mission is encouraging the enemy. In addition to all that there is the incessant chatter from [...] |
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