MetaFilter posts tagged with christmas and holiday

Holy Night

andoatnp — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:02:25 -0800

The little-known Jewish holiday of Christmas Eve. Seriously.

Military maps of The War on Christmas

Joe Beese — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:53:04 -0800

In celebration of Festivus: military maps of the War on Christmas.

FedEx Kinkos Won’t Print Our Christmas Card

ColdChef — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:33:32 -0800

FedEx Kinkos Won’t Print Our Christmas Card [nsfw]

Magnum Opus

oneswellfoop — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:12:06 -0800

A Wish... (part 1) ...For Wings... (part 2) ...That Work (part 3). The only Christmas Special you'll see this year with hairballs, a cross-dressing cockroach, Ronald Coleman and a 22-second warning. The apex for Berkeley Breathed and Opus (for Bill, notsomuch). via.

Window Dressing

Miko — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:59:01 -0800

Holidays on Display, currently on view at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, offers an image-rich online exhibit as well, detailing the way businesses learned to capitalize on one of the country's largest celebrations. Peer into the artistry of holiday window design as well. I was especially happy to learn via this exhibit about the artist, puppeteer, illustrator, and balloon designer Tony Sarg, who designed some of the most wonderful early balloons for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - very 20s and 30s in style, sort of the Fleischer Studios of balloons. He also created a wacky sea serpent stunt on Nantucket.

Neil Diamond is a Jewish guy who sings X-mas songs

MiltonRandKalman — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:12:48 -0800

What's the worst part about the holidays? The consumerism? The awkward office parties? Belligerent relatives and needy offspring? No, its holiday music, especially those involving former heroes [NSFOP]. This year, give the gift of non-suckage.

Oy vey, no Kwanza specials... sorry.

miss lynnster — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:56:22 -0800

Time to kill while waiting for Santa to arrive/dinner to digest/family to leave? Well, here's a Very Special Holiday Episode fpp just for you. God bless us, every one. &VideoID(Listed in no particular order. Yes, I've been working on this a while. Please feel free to add your own now!) Hannukah Harry saves Christmas and Easter! A Rugrats Chanukah Sesame Street Christmas Special 1978 Christmas Eve on Sesame Street 1978 A Muppet Family Christmas The Simpsons Christmas Stories Christmas with Mr. Bill Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In 1968 Holiday Special MST3K: Santa Claus Frank Sinatra/Bing Crosby Holiday Special The Nanny Christmas Special The Nanny CARTOON Christmas Special The Nick & Jessica Christmas Special An Amos and Andy Christmas A Very Special ALF Christmas Six South Park Christmas episodes SCTV Dusty Towne Sexy Holiday Special Blackadder's Christmas Carol A Beverly Hillbillies Christmas Justice League Christmas Special Life with Louie Christmas Special Merry Christmas Mr. Bean A very Frasier Christmas Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire Star Wars Holiday Special A Perfect Strangers Christmas Boy Meets World: A Very Topanga Christmas Pinky & The Brain Christmas Special Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas A He Man and She Ra Christmas A Very Elimidate Christmas Davy & Goliath Christmas Lost & Found Pee Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special Welcome Back Kotter: A Sweathog Christmas Mary Tyler Moore Show: Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid A Robot Chicken Christmas Bugs Bunny Christmas Carol Rankin Bass Pinnochio's Christmas A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Christmas Family Guy Christmas Special Rankin Bas Santa Claus is Coming to Town Rankin Bass Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey A Gumby Christmas Carol and Santa Witch A Growing Pains Christmas A Garfield Christmas Rankin Bass Night Before Christmas Animaniacs Christmas Special Dennis Leary Merry F$#@in' Christmas The Doris Day Show: A Two Family Christmas The Doris Day Show: Christmas Time in the City Rankin Bass Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Back For Christmas A Growing Up Gotti Christmas Rocko's Modern Christmas A Very Smurfy Christmas Tis the Season to be Smurfy Eight is Enough: Yes Nicholas, there is a Santa Claus A Lou Grant Christmas A Scarecrow & Mrs. King Christmas Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in The FBI: Dark Christmas A Wonder Years Christmas I Love Lucy Christmas The Ray Bolger Show Christmas (1953) A Will & Grace Christmas A Barney Miller Christmas Rankin Bass Year Without A Santa Claus Santa guest stars on Gilligan's Island Alice: A Semi-Merry Christmas Alice: Mel's Christmas Carol Bless This House Christmas starring Andrew Dice Clay Just Shoot Me: Jesus, It's Christmas A Hangin' With Mr. Cooper Christmas The Extras Christmas Special Kirk: The Christmas Show (Cameron, not James T.) A Charlie Brown Christmas Mickey's Christmas Carol Batman: Christmas with the Joker (animated) Yogi Bear's First Christmas Yogi's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper News Radio: X-Mas Story American Dad: Most Adequate Christmas Ever Casper's First Christmas A Cabbage Patch Kids Christmas A Flintstone Christmas Christmas Comes to Pac(man) Land A How I Met Your Mother Holiday A Scooby Doo Christmas Casper's First Christmas Wanda Sykes in A Wanda at Large Christmas Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Krueger's Christmas A Cosmic Christmas Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales Boondocks Christmas Bonus fun: Night Before Christmas (1903) Max Fleischer's Rudolph cartoon (1948) Scrooge (1934) A Christmas Story Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

wonderful ecards

nickyskye — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:16:02 -0800

It has now been several years since Jacquie Lawson, an English artist living in the picturesque village of Lurgashall in Southern England, created an animated Christmas card in 2000. The e-card, featuring her dog, Chudleigh, her cats, and her 15th-century cottage, was sent to a few friends for their amusement. Those friends sent the e-card to others, and within weeks Jacquie was inundated with requests from all over the world to design more e-cards. My favorite Christmas ecard of hers. A lovely birthday card. 101 ecards with about 15 new ones released each year. The international prices/membership fees, in the USA $10 per year.

Tacky Christmas Yards. REALLY Tacky.

dersins — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:28:24 -0800

tacky christmas yards dot com is exactly what it sounds like. [via]

Feliz Nahbehblah

miss lynnster — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:22:52 -0800

An FPP for your holiday listening pleasure. Ha ha ha. Captain Obvious' Christmas Mix Tape Psychotic Leisure Music Vintage kiddie Christmas records Christmas music from wax cylinders A kiddie Christmas podcast Mostly Ghastly Music The Vintage Place Music You Won't Possibly Hear Anywhere Else Katry 77 Santas Cool Mo Dee Sanity Clause's Shanty Storynory -- Christmas Stories for Kids Cheerful Earful Christmas a Go-Go Bongo Bells Hi Fi Holiday Fa la la la la Childrens records and more Way Cool Music Ernie (Not Bert) Stax o Wax Check the Cool Wax Dartman's World of Wonder Just Good Music BONUS STUFF Classic Television Christmas Sufjan Stevens -- Worst Christmas Ever The cheery Malcolm Middleton Christmas ditty - We're All Going to Die Christmas Davey & Goliath episode Okay, now add your own favorites.

30 Years of LucasFilm Christmas Cards

ColdChef — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:28:51 -0800

30 Years of LucasFilm Christmas Cards (I triple-dog dare ya!)

Santastic III

Mwongozi — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:33:03 -0800

Santastic I, II, and now III, holiday mash-ups, alternate treatments and bootleg remixes.
Previously

"You know Rudolph and Frosty, Kris Kringle and Ralphie . . . "

Kibbutz — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:22:50 -0800

Park your carcass in front of the TV for the next six weeks. Here is the upcoming broadcast schedule for every show that has even the tiniest connection to The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.

working for a holiday wage

madamjujujive — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:06:43 -0800

Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas - a Harvey Danger song for all those who keep the wheels turning. (YouTube alert)

Whattaya doin'? Go turn on my tree!

exlotuseater — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:56:17 -0800

It's all about the tree. (YouTube)

ho ho ho beard

brundlefly — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:32:35 -0800

Santa'd: Flickr's new holiday Easter egg.

Lookout - Santa's packing!

jonson — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:06:17 -0800

Of all the Christmas cards I received this year from political action committees, this one from the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep & Bear arms best summed up the holiday spirit to me.

Merry Christmash!

Robot Johnny — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 21:34:18 -0800

Santastic: Holiday boots for your stockings. Mash-ups of decades of Christmas records just in time for the holidays. The quality varies throughout, but it makes for some fun manic listening if you've grown tired of the same perennial chestnuts. Merry Christmash to all, and to all a boot night.

Haughy-lujah!

SPrintF — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:47:02 -0800

Santa Santa Santa Santa It's Friday, it's Flash, it's Christmas Eve, so....

'We are the Gay Men's Radical Singing Caucus!' the lead singer yelled in his exquisite tenor.

amberglow — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:56:22 -0800

Tis the Season -- a new short story from China Mieville, just in time for the Holidays™ ... Don't get me wrong. I haven't got shares in YuleCo™, and I can't afford a one-day end-user licence, so I couldn't have a legal party. I'd briefly considered buying from one of the budget competitors like XmasTym, or a spinoff from a non-specialist like Coca-Crissmas, but the idea of doing it on the cheap was just depressing...

Annual airing of grievances

mrgrimm — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:20:20 -0800

The War on Christmas. "What we are witnessing here are hate crimes against Christianity." Angered by perceived attacks on the Christ part of Christmas, Christians are taking a page from GWB and staging pre-emptive cultural strikes around the country. Or are they? Is this effort a bigger attack against Judaism and the rest of the nonbelievers/scapegoats, an honest attempt by Christians to "save" the holiday, or a media-manufactured controversy? (Air out your holiday spirit, but save your own personal grievances for December 23.)

A Muppet Christmas with Zbigniew Brzezinski (1978)

apathy0o0 — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 13:23:16 -0800

The Ten Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time. From An Algonquin Round Table Christmas to Noam Chomsky: Deconstructing Christmas, these are the worst Christmas specials ever. I'd pay good money to see the Ayn Rand one for real.

Have you ever heard 'I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas'?

anastasiav — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:19:25 -0800

Mistletunes - your one-stop resource for those half-remembered Rock 'n' Roll Christmas songs of today and yesteryear. I'm partial to the novelty tunes of the '50's and '60's myself (as well a bit of punk), but you can also check out the lists of Hanukkah Hits, Surfin' Christmas, and keep up with the latest Christmas releases.

Torment the Little People

Orb — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:17:48 -0800

Virtual Snowglobe Having a bad day? Work off some aggression by disrupting the lives of the snowglobe dwellers! (Flash and a somewhat obnoxious soundtrack)

Twas the parody before Xmas

Wet Spot — Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:06:04 -0800

Twas the night before Xmas and all through the net,
The geeks would be googling the ascii character set;
Metafilter refreshed on their PCs with care,
In the hopes that their FPP soon would be there;

Then up in the blue there arose such a clatter,
Mathowie sprang up to see what's the matter;
When, what to my wondering eyes there should be,
The canonical list of "Twas" parodies.