Merry Happy January 10!

Better late than never?

For this Christmas, I wanted to do something on the chalkboard wall, but last year's marathon muracle-a-day extravaganza seriously wiped me out. Still, I couldn't pick just one Christmas-y picture to show on the wall, so instead I found 25 of my favorite Christmas movies, songs, TV shows, and stories to feature. (and then I went out of town and forgot to update the blog...)


So here it is, a month late but, if you look outside the window at my as-yet-unplowed street, weather-appropriate. I hope you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Ooooh lettering...
You know it's going to be a fun one when the lettering takes an hour.

All right, ready to count down 25 favorite Christmas-y things?
Let's go!

 1. Robot Santa (Futurama) with two very distressed elves and a laser uzi

 2. Ralphie (A Christmas Story) decked out in his pink bunny suit

 3. Santa and Rudolph, the stop-motion version

 4. The Nutcracker, by Maurice Sendak

 5. The Little Matchstick Girl

and 6. George Lassos the Moon! (It's a Wonderful Life)

7. The Grinch and Max the dog

 8. Homer-Santa and Bart

 9. Jack Skellington with Christmas lights (The Nightmare Before Christmas)

 10. Charlie Brown and Snoopy!

and 11. The other Grinch

 (left to right, beginning with the guy in the gray sweatsuit)

12. The dead terrorist from Die Hard (his sweatshirt reads "Ho Ho Ho Now I Have a Machine Gun")

13. O Christmas Troy (Community)

14. Frank and the Festivus pole (Seinfeld)

 15. Kermit/Bob Cratchett with Tiny Tim (Muppet Christmas Carol)

and 16. The inimitable Buddy the Elf, eating his favorite meal of maple syrup and spaghetti (Elf)

 17. Delicious Dish, ft Schweddy Balls (SNL)

 18. Generic Santa from the Night Before Christmas

and 19. One of my favorite illustrations from the book The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

 20. Partridge in a Pear Tree!

and 21. Marley's Ghost and Ebenezer Scrooge (A Christmas Carol)

 22. The hair comb and pocket watch chain from The Gift of the Magi

and 23. Susan and Kris Kringle pretending to be monkeys (Miracle on 34th Street)

24. A completely terrifying Frosty the Snowman

aaaaaaaaand...

25. A Santa-hatted, holly-bowtied Bing Crosby to wrap things up!

And I'll leave the last word to Bing, with a song that might be about Christmas,

but is still pretty relevant right now