Christmas trees: Do you want a control freak tree or a memory tree. There is also the issue of real trees vs. artificial trees. The National Christmas Tree Growers Association (NCTGA) created an online game where you destroy Mutant Artificial trees. If you want to be odd you could also celebrate with a Mountain Dew tree.
This blog post gives the full details of a Christmas cookie disaster. Universal Hub says, "some people should reconsider getting anywhere near the cookie dough."
The Blogging Poet is upset
that there is no Blog Herald Christmas Blogging Contest. The Christmas Blogging Contest was two owners ago when Duncan Riley (the blog's creator) still owned the Blog Herald. You can now find Duncan Riley
here.
Clicked has a Merry Clickmas roundup of interesting holiday links.
A few blogs, including Gawker, are noting this quote from Chuck Klosterman found in a post on Popmatters: "The one thing that has always bothered me about the Charlie Brown Christmas special is that the other kids never admit to Charlie Brown that he was right about the little tree."
Boing Boing has a post about a very cool Roy Doty Christmas card.
Some great Christmas card writing tips can be found here.
Brenda Stardom: "December screws me up. From day one of this month, I feel the beginnings of angst and battle it and all the other painful emotions which put in an appearance. The closer it gets to Christmas, the more nervous and angry I get. It's closing in. Eleven days! Help!"
