Look at the lights

I don't love all the holiday decorations in the city, but the lights wrapped around the trees in Midtown are charming in their way.

Merry merry happy

Happy holidays from mine to yours; this is the Christmas Eve scene. Half the fam was here last night, and half will be here today! Christmas cheer for weeks!

I received a Kindle, about which I am delighted. My first download was from Project Gutenberg: the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, by Francis Grose. A term I would like to revive: "Admiral of the narrow seas," which is defined as "one who from drunkenness vomits into the lap of the person sitting opposite to him." Ho ho ho!

Corbis should go into Christmas cards

Because really: how great is this?!

ca. 1961 --- Two young women display their holiday hairdos, each with 42-inch hair decorated with tinsel and ornaments. Claudette Ackrich's hair is decorated with tinsel, and Giselle Roc's hairstyle consists of Christmas tree balls. Both women have never had their hair cut. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

Merry happy!

All the best to you and yours!

He's no Frosty ...

... but he'll do.

First snow of the season!

Well jingle my bells.

I love this frenetic adaptation.

Erephant!

There's a new origami elephant at the American Museum of Natural History. It's part of their Christmas display, and it's cool.

Ho ho ho

Santa played some reindeer games yesterday in Hoyt Playground in Astoria before hightailing it over to Wonderbar. Santa then got annoyed by pretentious posturing and warmed up with milk and cookies before crashing around 2:30, but that's another story.