(Holiday) Christmas Songs: 2011 Trending Report
Listening to Christmas or miscellaneous holiday music is something all of us do, even if it’s inadvertent. For some of …
Category Archives: Holiday
(Holidays) Is Columbus (Leif Eriksson) Day Worth Celebrating?
Is Columbus Day worth celebrating? Perhaps some heavy metal songs can tell us.
(Calendar) Hobbit Day & Autumnal Equinox
I know less than half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. More Hobbit Day ridicularity after the jump.
(Metal and. . .) Passover: How Metallica Explains the Book of Exodus
In this post we’ll take a look at one of the great stories of the Bible/Torah, that of the Israelite …
(Holiday) Two Pieces of Christmas Poetry
There is a lot of good Christmas-related literature out there. Take Muppet Christmas Carol, for instance. This first excerpt is …
(Holiday) Conspicuous Consumption Christmas
Ever think about what kinds of stuff you’d buy yourself if you were mega-rich? Here’s six things on my list. Yeah, Christmas is supposed to be about gifts for others, but when you’re loaded, no one really loves you for yourself anymore. Since you’re alone in the world, might as well indulge.
(Holiday) Yule: The Winter Solstice
Glad Jól! Today is the winter solstice: the day of the longest night. Yule is, in fact, the real reason …
(Holiday) St. Lucy’s Day
It’s back to business here at the blog, and what better way to restart the engines than some obscure holiday …
(Holiday) Midsummer
The summer solstice is also called “Litha,” a name that gives us our word lithe, meaning “graceful, pleasant, mild,” among …
(Holiday) Beltane
2011 Preface: Last year I was doing some final cleanup on this post when I talked to my mom on …
