This is my bedroom air conditioner with its blanket of snow … I love the winter.

You know that scene in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas when the Grinch’s heart swells up three sizes?  Yeah, that kind of happened to me when I was watching this video about Jim and Dylan in Chelsea.

[NYT: Santa Left a Forwarding Address]

Title: “40: A Doonesbury Retrospective”

Author: G.B. Trudeau

Rank: 67

Blurb: “This monolithic overview of G.B. Trudeau’s landmark newspaper strip is the most comprehensive book on the subject imaginable.”

Review: “It leaves out all the cartoons relating to Watergate, Reagan, Monica, New Orleans, Dubya and other politically charged times.”

Customers Also Bought: “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great,” by Rick Meyerowitz

Footnote: No Watergate strips? That would be like selling a Warner Bros. collection without Bugs, Daffy and Road Runner.

40: A Doonesbury Retrospective [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

On the heels of Nojo and Serolf’s holiday music selections, I present to my fellow Stinquers my all-time favorite Christmas carol, “Merry Christmas from the Family,” by Robert Earl Keen, which captures a slice of Texas quite accurately.

Don’t forget to put the FUN back in dysFUNctional this year, kids!

Today it’s Gordon Ramsay’s Glazed Ham with pear and tomato chutney.  He’s something of an asshole, but his recipes work. I don’t have a written recipe, so the amounts are estimated. You can watch him do the ham about 1:50 in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF5c5U4HhKE

So here are the ingredients:

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As long as we’re sharing, here’s my all time favorite Christmas classic, Christmas At Calvary:

Actual I sh*t you not lyrics:

I love to spend Christmas at Calvary.
The most beautiful gift was given.
When God himself, and mercy decorated a tree.
The most beautiful light there is shining.
I love to spend christmas at calvary.

Merry Christmas Stinquers!

Once again, for your Co-opted Pagan Winter Solstice Observance pleasure, Eugene’s favorite Christmas carol.