To celebrate the holiday season, I took advantage of 2020’s charitable VOD selection and saw the new Mel Gibson-as-Santa movie “Fatman”! Is it worth rockin’ around the Christmas tree about, or does this action flick deserve a lump of coal in its stocking? Tune in and find out!
NEW, MERRY WEBSITE: “MoSanta.org”
There’s a surprising dearth of Santa stock photos in the GoDaddy archives.
Short answer to where I’ve been for eight months: I moved across the country and back home via U-Haul, started a new job, lived with my folks in an internet dead zone for a while, had to buy a new laptop, and then slowly but surely got my ol’ desktop PC back up when I finally found an apartment.
Long answer: …Well, that wasn’t too short, was it?
In any case, another hiatus is over! Unfortunately, not much new substantive writing got done in that gap, but I found a new creative outlet: web design. Well, okay, paying GoDaddy 70-odd dollars a year for what I kinda already have on here.
But! As dedicated followers may recall, around this time last year, I posted an experimental story called “Santaology” exploring the goofy logical extreme of a world where Santa Claus actually exists. In the closing lines, I mentioned a link to a fictional website for “the Museum of Santaology.” More than a few folks I shared it with urged me to snap that domain up–and so, with seasonally appropriate timing, I did just that.
So please take a glimpse at what’s going on in Manhattan’s jolliest of public institutions, at:
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New Short Story(?): “Santaology”
The jolly is out there.
Merry Christmas, all! Or at least the season thereof! The snow shows no signs of stopping up here in Buffalo, NY, but the warm glow of a computer monitor is comfort enough to keep me going against the cold of wintertime.
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With this optimism in mind, I present to you… well, not a story, per se. Think of it more as helpful information from a world more magical than ours, yet less nonchalant than the one which always seems to exist in movies where adults don’t believe in Santa despite him actually existing. I actually started writing this for last Christmas, but when I realized I wasn’t going to finish it in time, I thought it better to sit on it for a year. And now, as it blessedly always does, the time has come again!
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So enjoy this segment from a popular magazine, Modern Science, as its regular column “Playing the Fields,” devoted to educating readers on lesser-known areas of scientific study, dives into the critical field of…
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Above “original” image credit: this guy.
It is The Season
See how menacing “’tis the season” sounds when you write it grammatically correct? Anyway, I was on the fence about writing something Christmas-y this month, but as is often the case, I finally got an idea! It’s “Christmastime”–a simple poem, but I hope it’ll contribute to your enjoyment of this wonderful time of year, if only more than Justin Bieber’s “Mistletoe” or a rerun of Jingle All the Way. Additionally, I’ve attached a free-verser from a year or so ago that I wrote in Intro to Creative Writing; this one’s called “Winter Day”, and while I’m not outstandingly proud of it, I think it’s worth sharing now. Have a happy and/or merry Christmas and/or other snow-related ethno-religious celebratory period!
Notes&Sketches 