Actually, I think the importance of Christmas is tied more to the time of year than the holidays it piggybacked on. And those earlier holidays also were set at the same time of year for a reason.

She is an extremely attractive woman.

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Rob & Laura Petrie made me a Kent man for life!
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I don't usually spend my A.V. Club comment energy on spelling & grammar stuff, so I was prepared to let the all too common pronoun-antecedent error in the first sentence slide. ("Once someone crosses through the mystical threshold we call 'celebrity,' they become public property." "Someone" is singular; "they" is…

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Yeah, this is what drives me nuts about these people. (Well, one of the things.) Like when they rail against "Xmas" because they don't realize it's not an X, but a Greek chi.

I assumed they had doctored a poster from Jingle All the Way. Kirk's left forearm is positively Schwartzennegerean!

Like the reaction to celebrities dying. Some people get really indignant when someone else claims they cried over, say,Robin Williams—I mean, you didn't even KNOW the guy! But when someone is a public figure—especially an artist—we feel a connection to them that's not tied to knowing them personally, but to how they…

This sounds great. I capital-L love Elmore Leonard, & I continue to be amazed at how few of his eminently filmable books get decent Hollywood adaptations. That it reads as a prequel to one of the few Leonard novels that succeeded onscreen is very encouraging.

I only just read Rum Punch this summer, & it was absolutely improved by imagining Samuel L. Jackson (though Ordell "Whitebread" Robbie is described as light-skinned), Robert De Niro, & Robert Forster in those roles. Jackie is harder though—Pam Grier was great, but book Jackie is described completely differently…

Avocado is good on lots of sandwich variations. Put avocado slices (with or without tomato slices) on a tuna (or chicken salad) melt. Had me some of that, on whole wheat English muffins, just the other day, & damn was that tasty.

It took a special kind of genius to turn one of history's worst run-on sentences into a catchy tune.

@avclub-da496e2db2e50a068b4ae5549d4ae1b0:disqus's right—you are incorrect. And the fact that you specifically cite "Busy Prepositions", by far the worst of all of them, as one of the two you like calls your tastes seriously into question. Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad.

It's great—right up there with the best ones.

Best of the Science Rock series.

I didn't know that existed—fantastic! Thanks, @avclub-38ee61b8b18eec2ce80946762d7076c8:disqus !

"Rufus Xaver Sarsaparilla" just might be my favorite. I really dig most of the America Rock ones, too.

I've been showing selected Grammar Rock videos to my Latin classes for years. From the original, classic lineup, "A Noun Is A Person, Place Or Thing", "Verb: That's What's Happenin'", & "Unpack Your Adjectives" (plus "Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla" if I get to it, which might be my favorite). They added two in the early…