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Black (metal) Christmas!
Fuck Christmas Yes, it’s a week into December and I’ve decided it’s time to start with the Christmas shizz for this year. Some years we’ve taken a wide-eyed and innocent approach (I think that was the...
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Quiz: Which The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Character are you?
Unlike the last time I took this (when I was Edmund) I turned out to be Lucy, so apparently I’m becoming progressively more innocent as I age, which proves that William Blake was right all along. FACT....
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Christmas Presence 2012
Anonymous Santa I’m a little late getting into the Christmas spirit this year, partly because I missed my traditional opening to the Christmas Season, Christmas at Hycroft, thanks to the month-long...
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Happy Batshit Holidays
A couple of years ago, it was the year of Merry Fucking Christmas; this year, it appears to be more along the lines of WTF Christmas. For examples of what Batshit Insane holidays look like, see the...
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Two Christmas Stories
Darwin and Charlie Brown It’s a Christmas Tradition on the ol’ raincoaster blog to re-post this, the greatest Christmas story ever told (sorry, Jesus!): A Christmas Story, by Sarban. It is long, but if...
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Art for Christmas!
Copper Painting by artist Marilyn McKee How’d you like to get a $1,200 work of art for ten measly bucks? You would, wouldn’t you (you cheap-ass art-lover, you!)? Well here’s your chance to really stun...
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Fuck the Yule Log Video: Lil Bub Wins Christmas!
Lil Bub rules yule It’s a fact! Take that musty old VHS tape of the Christmas yule log and toss it on the fire, because there’s a new time-waster in town. The internet’s cutest cat, Lil BUB, has come...
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A Christmas Clean-Up
raincoaster reporting for Christmas Cleanup duty Note: Bloggers may be larger than they appear in amusing holiday-themed kitchenwear. There’s a certain element of bloodthirstiness to many of the...
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Merry Christmas, love (?) Sherlock
Merry Christmas from John Watson and Sherlock Holmes. Are you ready to unwrap the packages? Sherlock fans (and Johnlock fans) have waited TOO DAMN LONG! Sure, sure, you think waiting 365 days for...
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Merry Christmas, Happy Boxing Day, and Happy Birthday to Shane McGowan
Slightly belated, but only by a couple of hours. GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS GUYS! That’s right, it’s Shane McGowan‘s birthday! Or was, until a couple of hours ago. Yeah, Jesus is dead and Shane McGowan is...
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What time is it? CHRISTMAS LIST TIME, MOTHERFUCKERS!
That’s right. Get the pen and paper ready, cuz I’m only going to go through this once. If you’re seriously lazy, just go through raincoaster’s Amazon Wish List but you’re not, are you? You like it...
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Jan Terri is the Spirit of Christmas 2014
You know how there’s these ghosts? These Christmas ghosts? And they’re not so much all dead people as they are spirits in the pagan, pantheistic sense? Well, they say every Christmas gets the ghost it...
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Christmas Ghost Stories: The Snow, by Hugh Walpole
The only thing better than a good, creepy Christmas ghost story is one with ice-cold revenge at its heart. This, my friends, this is such a story. Relentless, unyielding, implacable, and cold, as cold...
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Christmas Ghost Stories: The Crown Derby Plate by Marjorie Bowen
Tonight’s featured Christmas Ghost Story is simply one of the best. Not particularly Christmasy, it’s true; this tale focuses more on the seeping damp, the eerie winds, the endless fens, and the sheer...
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Christmas Ghost Stories: The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall, by John Kendrick...
It’s about time we had a Christmas ghost story with a little decent sexual tension and a few snarky one-liners! This latest in our series, The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall, is probably the first one I...
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Christmas Ghost Stories: The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance by...
It’s not every author who gets two kicks at the can in our advent collection of Christmas Ghost Stories, but M.R. James is a special case. Indeed, he, more even than Dickens, popularized the phenomenon...
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Christmas Ghost Stories: A Christmas Story, by Sarban
This, the last in our series, is THE Christmas Ghost Story. Sure, it’s just called “A Christmas Story” but that’s because, like the Olympic gold medalist who says, “I’m a student” when asked who she...
View ArticleIt’s that time, people: CHRISTMAS MOTHERFUCKING LIST TIME!
You didn’t get me anything for my birthday, and you know it! We’ve been taking a short (what, six year?) break from the posting of Christmas Lists round these parts (these ones right here *points*) and...
View ArticleHappy Hater’s Christmas! It’s Here At Last!
Enjoy the ever-loving FUCK out of the annual Hater's Guide to the Williams Sonoma Catalogue. Catalog. Whatever.
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