Clement Moore’s version of Santa’s reindeer team was not the only one. Children’s author L. Frank Baum, known for his Oz series, offered a competing version: A team of ten (!) named Flossie and Glossie, Racer and Pacer, Reckless and Speckless, Fearless and Peerless, and Ready and Steady. The names used a rhyming, alliterative style …
Since I’ve been posting about reindeer, let’s see Santa’s flesh and blood creatures changed into sleek, tireless robot servants. It makes sense that Santa would eventually move in this direction. Such a compassionate soul as he would want to avoid stress and strain on the mortal creatures. They would be semi-retired and serve only as …
In my original plans for this post I wanted to generate some names for new members of Santa’s flying reindeer team, but instead I went down a rabbit hole of Christmas canon. For example, much of our (meaning American) ideas about Santa Claus came from poet Clement Moore’s work “A Visit from St. Nicholas” which …
Made in 1652 of felted wool and on display at the National Museum of Folklore in Gothenburg, Sweden. NOT. (It’s AI.) The next oldest is this child’s garment from 1740 which is in possession of the New York State Historical Society. NOT.
A blast from the past! Past years, that is, of random Christmas names for songs, scents, foods, and characters. Randomgen Christmas names from years past Species of Santa German Christmas Cookies Christmas Traditions Around the World Christmas Cocktails The Best of Twittersnips (Christmas) Christmas Songs Christmas Characters Christmas Scents Santa’s Elves Santa’s Bad Elves …
This short story about a near-future NYC. Netflix’s Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife, about doctor and charlatan Paolo Macchiarini who implanted artificial tracheas in patients without adequate testing. Forgotten mascots of the Christmas season. See my list of fictional ones. Eigengrau and CEV. Hairless dogs.
It’s not really Christmas unless you eat or bake some sort of traditional German cookie! Like Lebkuchen, better known to the English-speaking world as gingerbread. Pfeffernusses are also popular as well as Spritzgeback, those cookies you pipe through a cookie press to form decorative swirls. In the US they are called Spritzen or simply …
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