Streams of Unconsciousness: The Best of Christmas Past Posts

18 December 2020

The Best of Christmas Past Posts

A photo from last night's Streams Christmas party.

It's always a bit hectic this time of year even with Covid restrictions. My second novel will be released in a few weeks and I'm busy on two (2!) others. So I haven't found time for a Christmas post, so I'm going back to Christmases past. Below are nine Christmas posst from this blog going back as far as 2008. I suppose you could call them: The Best of Christmas Past Posts. Hope this will tide my millions of readers over (especially you Philomena Fezziwig of Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK).

From last year a post in which I took on some popular Christmas Carols.

Two years ago I looked at whether the song, Baby it's Cold Outside is really about date rape.

In 2017 I had this exclusive interview with Santa Claus.

Here's a short story I published in 2015 that was set around Christmas.

Also from 2015 something I wrote about my personal history with Christmas.

Here are some Yuletide thoughts from 2011.

Ten years ago I shared my thoughts on It's A Wonderful Life.

Also from that year I offered 12 Christmas films for your 12 days of Christmas.

And in 2008 I wrote about the French films, A Christmas Tale.

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And I quote:

"Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading". - Ernest Hemingway

"They have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule." - Sitting Bull

"Here's what we can do to change the world, right now.... Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace." - Bill Hicks

“Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.” - August Strindberg

We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism. -- Fred Hampton