This Christmastide of 2001 ...

[Dave Monroe]

Do not have my copy of ...

Nissenbaum, Stephen.  The Battle for Christmas:
   A Cultural History of America's Most Cherished
   Holiday.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

... at hand, else I'd post a little something on "This
Christmastide of 1786" (M&D, Ch. 1, p. 6).  So we
bring you this Holiday favorite instead ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0012&msg=51652&sort=date

... a Yuletide tradition: the rerun.  Unfortunately,
not in full-on Rankin Bass "Animagic" (courtesy of,
among others, First Puppet Maker to the King Ichiro
"Pinchan" Komuro), but ...

http://www.rankinbass.com/

http://www.apeculture.com/santa.htm

http://www.tvparty.com/xmasrudolph.html

And see as well ...

Marling, Karal Ann.  Merry Christmas!
   Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday.
   Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2000.

Obviously long since out of presents to open ...

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