Any Polish food festivals? Or is that the Bay Area's unicorn?

And it is, it is a glorious thing . . .

Where do you live? I'm in Pittsburgh. You can buy them from grocery stores here, but I think the best ones are bought from various churches

I'm keeping a notebook, and I just wrote the recommendation in it. Thank you.

I don't have a New Year's resolution, but I have embarked in a change in behavior. A couple of weeks ago, in a dream, I saw a woman with an iridescent rainbow scarf. She was a poet, too, and she told me she had just finished an MFA in poetry, and it had made all the difference in her work!

And now it's gone. Darn.

Good question. What Muppet would I want to sentence to eternal damnation? (I think this shows the difficulty of the project.) Pops? Perhaps Sam the Eagle: he is a sardonic character, and he has the voice for it.
[Insert dingbat here.]
"Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol" solved this by having _characters playing_ the Christmas…

I'm afraid I really dislike this version, and that scene is one of the reasons why. "We've got to put these two in *somewhere*": and I love Statler and Waldorf, and I love Marley, and it just seems _wrong_. Williams's version for me.

It's the bad teeth.

Well, it's Charles Wesley _plus_ the wisdom of the crowd. The original version was different. He said that it was to be used in various contexts, but Never For Christmas.

Hollywood is America, in terms of how we treat children.

"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," commemorating the holiday Its.

Miss Piggy and Rudolf Nureyev . . .

Which version of "In the Bleak Midwinter"? I've heard two melodies.

_That_ would be more like the original caroling.

I like the first verse, but the latter verses were written for pre-Internet people with longer attention spans. And the "In Bethlehem, In Jewery" verse is not meant to be bigoted, but just sounds that way to modern ears.

It was originally meant as cheerful. Each day the monks would come in procession, singing one of the verses. Then the monastery cook would give the abbot some savory food — not sweet, as it _was_ Advent.

From everything I read about the set-up, it sounded as if there wasn't any realistic source of tension. This review seems to agree.

Is "The Fear" the episode with the ungodly monster being born?

Could one whale the tar out of him?