Thanks for including a vegetarian-friendly post once in a while! I'd also recommend [vegweb.com] as a real motherlode of veg recipes.

The snowflakes are by the wonderful cartoonist Minty Lewis!

I used to work as a projectionist, and we would use a clothespin to clip a dryer sheet to the top of the brain (the spooling mechanism of the platter) to help keep static from building up on the reels. It seemed to help.