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A Christmas Carol in Two Flavors

The following is very true.

The Power of Jonathan Winters
It was a long road home one Christmas Eve when the choice came. Stop for a bite to eat or listen to Jonathan Winter’s read A Christmas Carol over the radio station we had just found. There was no choice really. While our belly grumbled with hunger on the ride home, our heart was full of smiles.

Master comedian Jonathan Winters presents a distinctive reading of this holiday classic, using a special performing edition prepared by Dickens for his own presentations. He re-creates Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley’s spirit and the three Christmas ghosts: Past, Present and Future. Mimi Kennedy also performs.

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The X Days of Xmas: Have Yourself a Nervous Breakdown / Doctor Who Christmas

You really should read more.

A Nervous Breakdown Christmas
A quick search on The Nervous Breakdown gives you a handful of authors willing to share their Christmases with you.

Below lay an excerpt from Will Entrekin‘s “The Evolution of the Christmas Jollies”

Tim’s voice remains clear: “You still get the Christmas Jollies?” No eleven year old should be able to manage such derision, but as Timmy’s height was ahead of his years, so was his condescension. I was only eleven or so myself, and I didn’t exactly know what the Christmas Jollies were, but somehow I sensed from the tone of Timmy’s voice that having them was akin to having cooties. Maybe worse.

Now you’d better finish that story. You know what they say will happen if you don’t finish.

Paul Cornell’s The 12 Blogs of Christmas
Paul Cornell, writer of one of our favorite Doctor Who two-parters “Human Nature/Family of Blood” has been in the holiday spirit over on his blog.

…welcome to the first of my 12 Blogs of Christmas, where, as in the last few years, I’ll be presenting hopefully exciting new stuff over the next twelve days, covering, in a festive manner, the three worlds I move in: science fiction; comics and Doctor Who.

He started this on December 12, so if you’re behind, like us, you got a lot of reading to do. Like this short story Doctor Who, professionally written piece of fan fiction “The Last Doctor.” Free fan fiction from a professional writer who normally gets paid to pen Who stories. These are blessed times we live in.

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Bird Plots Against Science, Drops Bread in the LHC

By now you know the story of the bread, the bird and the Large Hadron Collider.

The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.

What you may have missed is The Future Sabotage of the LHC theory where it is proposed that the Higgs Boson does not want to be found.

And long before that the Super-Fear of Hadron Super Collider, Silly, Won’t Die wherein some worry that daring to turn on the LHC will doom this Earth to being a Black Hole’s dinner.

From these meager scraps of super science-y notions we’ve managed to piece together the grander scheme. Here, faithful reader, is the rest of the story*:
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