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 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.
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