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Friday December 25, 2009 10:07 AM EST
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Friday December 11, 2009 03:34 PM EST

This year’s non-denominational Clickable Advent Calendar offers a holiday-themed quote of the day — this time, from Mt. Sinai.

Dec. 11:

“Here’s a list of who’s been naughty and who’s been nice.”

“Hmm.. Brad Anderson, naughty. Now what’d he do that was so bad?”

“His parents had some company over and he spoke when he wasn’t spoken to.”

“What is with you...

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Thursday December 25, 2008 12:32 PM EST

For my final Christmas post, a clip that’s been stuck in my head practically non-stop since I first saw it. Forgive the lines of superfluous code at the top — consider it the gift wrap.

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Wednesday December 24, 2008 12:09 PM EST
A round-up of Christmas-related links and other goodness. | more...

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Tuesday December 23, 2008 12:02 PM EST
Atlanta’s Dragonfruit Studios introduces a new web-based puppet series, “Spook House Dave,” in January 2009. Also, Dec. 23 is Festivus. | more...

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Monday December 22, 2008 06:10 PM EST
‘Cinematic Titanic,’ a new, movie-heckling spin-off of “Mystery Science Theatre 3000,” takes on ‘Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.’ | more...

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Sunday December 21, 2008 04:42 PM EST
Hanukkah begins at sundown Sunday, Dec. 21, meaning that once again, Hanukkah Harry sets off from his workshop on Mt. Sinai... | more...

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Sunday December 21, 2008 02:04 AM EST
This year the much-maligned “Star Wars Holiday Special” celebrates its 30th anniversary, and to Lucasfilm’s chagrin, you can relive it thanks to the likes of Youtube. You might want to watch it via the protective filter of the RiffTrax commentary, if you get the chance. | more...

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Friday December 19, 2008 12:28 PM EST
image-1Not surprisingly, those Atlanta-based mad scientists responsible for the Adult Swim programming on the Cartoon Network make merry with extreme prejudice at the holidays. The “Aqua Teen Hunger Force Star-Studded Christmas Spectacular Starring Rhon Geremi” will be broadcast Christmas Eve, but a sleighful of holiday-themed shows air tonight, Dec. 19, including “Robot Chicken’s Half-Assed... | more...

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Thursday December 18, 2008 12:53 PM EST
image-1Tonight, Dec. 18, ABC Family broadcasts the live-action Jim Carrey film How The Grinch Stole Christmas from 2000. Let us not speak of it again lest it sully our memories of the classic 1966 cartoon “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” which isn’t just one of the best Christmas specials, but is one of the best pieces of animation made for television of any kind. Chuck Jones, who... | more...

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Tuesday December 16, 2008 01:00 PM EST
English funnyman Rowan Atkinson is one of the last, best practitioners of old-school physical comedy and sight gags, which have won him international fame through his bumbling man-child alter ego, Mr. Bean. Mr. Bean: The Ultimate Collection, which goes on sale today, is one of those unbelievably exhaustive DVD sets that gathers seemingly every Bean appearance and piece of pop ephemera in... | more...

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Monday December 15, 2008 03:18 PM EST
Five questions about The Island of Misfit Toys from the classic “Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer” special. | more...

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Sunday December 14, 2008 01:00 PM EST
A new Wallace & Gromit short, ‘A Matter of Loaf and Death,” premieres on Christmas Day in England, but Americans might have to settle for their “Cracking Contraptions.” | more...

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Saturday December 13, 2008 01:00 PM EST
The latest episode of NBC’s “The Office” features an on-line tie-in: a bogus web-site for this year’s hot holiday toy, the Unicorn Princess doll. | more...

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Friday December 12, 2008 01:00 PM EST
Comic strips, articles and sketches that point out the flaws and dark sides of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’ | more...

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Thursday December 11, 2008 01:00 PM EST
Cold Miser and Heat Miser, the singing-and-dancing bad guys from “A Year Without a Santa Claus,” get their own holiday special. | more...

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Wednesday December 10, 2008 01:00 PM EST
Marking this week’s debut of ‘A BetamaXmas,’ a web site that simulates watching Betamax tapes of holiday shows in your rec room, circa the 1980s. | more...

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Tuesday December 9, 2008 02:41 PM EST
The Plaza Theater’s monthly ‘Splatter Cinema’ gives gore for the holidays with the Santa-themed slasher flick, ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night.’ | more...

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Monday December 8, 2008 01:00 PM EST
One of the most beloved — and refreshingly soft-spoken — animated TV specials ever made, “A Charlie Brown Christmas” airs on ABC tonight at 8 p.m. The first cartoon version of Charles M. Schulz’s “Peanuts” comic strip was broadcast in 1965 and featured many unusual touches, such as the casting of children (many of them inexperienced) as voice actors, the Vince Guaraldi jazz-piano... | more...

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Sunday December 7, 2008 01:00 PM EST
I thought I was going to have an experience out of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas yesterday. I was taking my daughter to “Breakfast With Santa” at her kindergarten, and the first thing I saw when we pulled into the parking lot was a hearse, because the church part of the building was having a funeral that morning. It made me flash on Jack Skellington and his coffin-shaped... | more...

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Saturday December 6, 2008 01:00 PM EST
An obscure but hilarious “TV Funhouse” sketch that uses retro-style black-and-white animation to introduce the Christmas visitor, “Tingles.” | more...

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Friday December 5, 2008 01:00 PM EST
Opening night of Atlanta Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’ inspires a war-time flashback to a ‘Creative Loafing’ embedded journalist’s dispatches from the Rat Wars. | more...

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Thursday December 4, 2008 01:08 PM EST
The Cheeky Girls’ “Have a Cheeky Christmas” could be the dumbest holiday song and video ever. Then again, December has just gotten started. | more...

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Wednesday December 3, 2008 01:44 PM EST
With Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa still in theaters, I thought I’d devote today’s calendar entry to “A Christmas Caper,” DreamWorks’ 10-minute spin-off film that appeared as an extra on the DVD release of the original film in 2005. (Apparently it was also attached to Curse of the Were-Rabbit.) It showcases by far the funniest characters in the Madagascar films and, frankly, is one my favorite... | more...

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Tuesday December 2, 2008 03:26 PM EST
A remix video of the classic holiday film ‘A Christmas Story,’ which just celebrated its 25th anniversary in Cleveland. | more...
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