December 2010
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4 Bad Lessons 'Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer'... →
Christmas movies are supposed to be heartwarming parables that entertain us while simultaneously teaching us the invaluable tenet of selflessness. Christmas is not about presents, the Grinch teaches us, it’s about being together. Christmas is not a time for selfishness, A Christmas Carol teaches us, it is a time to set right past wrongs. Christmas is not meaningless, A Charlie Brown...
The Boardgame Remix Kit →
The Boardgame Remix Kit works with all the great family favourites. It’s got twenty five games that you can play using the boards and pieces you’ve already got.
As well as smoothing out or speeding up a standard game, the kit can turn Monopoly* into a family poker tournament, Trivial Pursuit* into a surrealist parlour game; Scrabble* into fight between a wasp and a robot, and...
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My Problem with Christmas
I am anti-Christmas.
At this moment, whilst stuck in the Bible Belt of the US, I feel morally obligated to express my discontent with this holiday and our traditions surrounding it. **SPOILERS** I give birth to Jesus & stick him in a cattle trough. The last thing I feel like hearing right now is a lecture on how I’m not a happy enough person to enjoy Christmas, or that this is a...
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