Have A Very Mario Christmas!

Best wishes to you all! Mario Christmas by demiurgic. (Link via Rampaged Reality)

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Werner Herzog Reads 'Twas The Night Before Christmas

Must Be Santas, Must Be Santas

Rudolph The Red-Nosed AT-AT

What Santa Really Does While You're Asleep

Santa is kind of a jerk. See more of what he does to you, wether you're bad or good, at The Oatmeal.

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Twelve Days of Simpsons

Santa Cthulhu

I'm A Jingle Bell Schmuck

Actresses and actors during Christmas time (2)

Jobyna Ralston, Nancy Carroll, Norma Shearer, Rosemary and Priscilla Lane, Carole Lombard (in shorts) with other Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties, Boris Karloff and Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young & Cary Grant via, Marilyn Monroe, Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Esther Williams.

XMas chez Soyons-suave : http://soyons-suave.blogspot.com/search/label/Xmas

Actresses and actors during Christmas time (1) : http://dsata.blogspot.com/2010/12/actresses-and-actors-during-christmas.html


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Tamara de Lempicka

Christmas Song

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How the Hulk Stole Christmas

In Whoville they say that the Grinch's small biceps grew three sizes that day. (How the Hulk Stole Christmas by Michael DelMundo. Link via Herochan)

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How Rorschach Stole Christmas

Hulk Late For Work!

If Superheroes Were Hipsters

Star Wars Snowflakes

For all your geek Christmas needs, Star Wars snowflakes! Above an R2-D2 and C-3PO paper snowflake from the fine folks at The Nerdery. No instructions on making one though, so you're on your own. The two below both have instructions, but are still well beyond my rudimentary scissor skills. Enjoy.

Boba Fett and a Clone Trooper snowflake

Darth Vader snowflake

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Rudolph, You Don't Have To Put On the Red Light

Who Watches Santa Claus?

Must Be Santas, Must Be Santas

Werner Herzog Reads 'Twas The Night Before Christmas

There he is, our first vision of the famous spirit of Christmas, who judges, God-like, from afar all-year long and arrives on this night only to mete out reward and punishment.

Ryan Iverson strikes again with his interpretation of German director Werner Herzog interpreting children's classics. And my weekend is made! (Link via Nag on the Lake)

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Werner Herzog Reads Where's Waldo?

Werner Herzog Reads Madeline

Curious George Learns A Hard Lesson About Desire

Actresses and actors during Christmas time

Elizabeth Montgomery, Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, Jane Greer, Humphrey Bogart with Lauren Bacall and son, Jane Wyman & Rock Hudson (in "Tout ce que le ciel permet" Douglas Sirk), Loretta Young & Cary Grant, Marian Marsh, Marilyn Monroe, Nancy Carroll, Rita Hayworth, Norma Shearer, Sharon Tate, Priscilla Lane, Marguerite Chapman, Joan Bennett & Cary Grant, Joan Crawford with her Christmas wreath, Carole Lombard, Cyd Charisse, Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe & William Powell, John Payne and Natalie Wood, Miracle on 34th Street (1947), June Marlowe via The silent movie blog.



"God Jul"

(Illustrated by Pauli Ebner, Koninklijke Bibliotheek) Dat heerlijke kerstfeest via A polar bear's tale

William Schneider "Poinsettia and Candle"

Rudolph, You Don't Have To Put On the Red Light

This is the best mashup of the season, hands down!The Police's Roxanne meets Rudolph, the Red-nose Reindeer in this Yuletide derangement by mojochronic. (Link via Neatorama)

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Rudolph The Red-Nosed AT-AT
Rudolph The Stuffed-Head Reindeer
Full Metal Rudolph, The Reinfather & A Pack of Gifts Now

Actresses in the snow

Ann Sheridan (Photo by Scotty Welbourne), Audrey Hepburn, Anna Karina, Carole Lombard, Grace Kelly (with Princess Caroline), Julie Andrews, Marilyn Monroe (Photo by Andre de Dienes), Norma Shearer, Rita Hayworth, Yvonne De Carlo, Greta Garbo, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (in "Swing Time"), Debbie Reynolds, Sharon Tate, Catherine Deneuve (in "Les parapluies de Cherbourg" de Jacques Demy), Joan Bennett (via).



Williams Glackens, Central Park, Winter c1905

Boris Kustodiev - Maslenitsa

Edmund Dulac - The Snow Queen Flies Through the Winter’s Night


Claude Monet - La pie (via Dimitri Salon artfact http://dimitrisalon.blogspot.com/)

Mazanov Leonty Nikiforovich

Tom Thomson - Night (via deluneauxautres.canalblog.com)

Ivan Shishkin - Na severe dikom