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WHEN KRAMPUS RULED CHRISTMAS

Posted in Holidays, tagged , , , , , on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Our friends in the Moorish Orthodox Church hipped us to a resurgence in Krampus appreciation over in Europe. Krampus, by the way, is Santa’s naughty counterpart, and according to one MOCer has a “predilection for sex with women and especially enjoys whipping their buttocks with a birch switch.” Dee-lish! A new article in Reason by [...]

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THE AUTHENTIC THANKSGIVING

Posted in Holidays, tagged , , , , , , on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Club some seals, and other ways to have an authentic Thanksgiving How to celebrate like the Pilgrims did it. Those awful, awful Pilgrims By Sean O’Neal November 23, 2009 Excerpted from A.V. Club Milwaukee America has a proud history of taking its most sacred holidays and allowing shrewd marketing types to distort them beyond all [...]

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THE IMPORTANCE OF THE TOAST

Posted in New Old Traditions, tagged , , , , on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

At the party minds and voices swirl to the momentum of small semi-autonomous gatherings as people respond in body to one another’s stories. Some taken with the absurdity of a joke’s end allow their smile to release into cacophonous laughter, while others who have heard something terrible console with a sympathetic brow. The party is [...]

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Looking Ahead to the season of Yule…

Posted in All That is Sacred, Holidays, tagged , , , , on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The 17th Century is pretty…um… contemporary for the New Old Traditions, but I assume that the figure of Saint Nicolas will emerge eventually, so I would like to call attentions to an upcoming event by the Culinary Historians of New York addressing the Dutch vision of St. Nicolas. Think of it as sort of a [...]

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