Holiday And now, eight hours of vintage department store holiday music Séamus Bellamy

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No Swiper, No Swiping! Serial plagiarist's memoir looks strikingly familiar Jason Weisberger

Disney Families go broke for Disneyland: Are magical memories worth the financial misery? Yoy Luadha

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

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Mike Mignola Four celebrated comics creators gather for a haunting Christmas Eve anthology Gareth Branwyn

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Cooking Enjoy some gumbo today to celebrate National Gumbo Day! Jennifer Sandlin

police brutality Six white Mississippi police officers who enjoyed sexually torturing two Black men and shot one in the mouth plead guilty Mark Frauenfelder

travel The cheap, perfectly-sized international travel backpack and a hardcase alternative Rob Beschizza

music SYNTH GEMS 1 is a gorgeous coffee table book full of analog synthesizers Thom Dunn

movies Bad Robot is gearing up to make a Hot Wheels movie Devin Nealy

christianity Watch: Michele Bachmann said she spent Christmas telling her 3- and 6-year-old grandkids that the "eternal fires" of Hell await them Mark Frauenfelder

cannabis Put 'Pot in the Latkes' on your Hanukkah playlist Rusty Blazenhoff

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