Oh dear, you’ve lost again. I thought last Wednesday’s lyric from “Fairytale of New York” by the Pogues and Kristy MacColl was fairly well known, but apparently I was wrong, and I find myself crowning myself the winner this week. Yea me! UPDATE: So I woke up this morning to find that Matt from France [...]

So I have another sinus infection, so I’m afraid that I don’t have a lot to say this morning, except thank the Lord for Progresso soup. And seriously, why haven’t they come up with a sinus and cold medicine that pregnant women can take? I don’t think they’re even working on the problem, and they [...]

Dearest, It’s time for Fierce and Nerdy to take a bit of a Christmas vacay, but we hope that you’ll enjoy our extra-long super-special Christmas Edition until next Monday when we see you again. We also hope that you celebrate the holidays with lots of cookies, merriment, and goodwill for your fellow earth folks. 100% [...]

. A blogumn by Kelli Bielema Because they say Christmas is for children, I’m gonna to act like one this year.  For the first time in I can’t remember how long, I’m reverting back to my youth, partly due to the weather.  Snow for Christmas… in Seattle? It has happened. In spades. It really has [...]

If I ruled the world — or better yet The TV, I would create a seasonal channel that only showed these clever LED houses with Christmas light displays set to music 24/7 for the 25 days of Christmas. How clever would that be? And there are so many of them, I’m sure you can good [...]

. A blogumn by Robin Rosenzweig The year was 2000. I was visiting my sister Laura in Los Angeles for a few days before going to Palm Springs for Christmas with the parents. On the Saturday before Christmas, Laura took me on my first ever visit to the Rainbow Bar and Grill on the Sunset [...]

. A blogumn by Amy Robinson Christmas tastes like a sugar cookie made from my Mother’s special Christmas Cookie recipe.  Every year since 1963, the Henry’s have made Christmas cookies from a recipe Mom found in a December issue of Farm Wife Magazine.  She keeps the yellowing magazine zipped safely into a gallon Ziploc bag [...]

In a yearly eff you to all the rebels that threw their tea into the Boston harbor, we Statesiders are always made to wait FOREVER to see the annual Christmas episode of Dr. Who. I wouldn’t mind, except this year’s episode looks particularly awesome AND there’s never anything except stoopid college football to watch on [...]

. A blogumn by Jeff Rogers It’s all the same holiday. Look around. We’ve got festivals of lights breaking out all over. With menorahs and candles and colorful glowing bulbs and roaring Yule logs we celebrate the continuance of light through the darkest nights of the year. Call it Hannukah, call it Christmas, call it [...]

Apparently Spain’s public artists are much nerdier than our public artists. I’m so jealous, and I so want a Pac Man Christmas tree next year. Seriously, if the artist behind this figured out a way to mass market this tree, s/he’d make a ton of money. . [Source: aarting]