Category: They Named Us Lancelot and Tara
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The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot
In keeping with the annual tradition of reading the best Christmas stories for adults (as well as the best Christmas stories for kids and the best Christmas poems), here is The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot: As you’ll hear in the recording, I was clued into The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot by Professor…
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Funeral Eulogy for My Grandpa Deno Bubba
This year I had planned on staying in NYC the whole holiday season, but my grandfather passed away very, very suddenly on Saturday morning, so we grabbed an emergency flight back to Illinois, rolled into town for the visitation on Monday night and I performed the funeral eulogy and graveside services on Tuesday. Tara recorded the…
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The Second Christmas by F.K. Foraandh
In keeping with reading The Best Christmas Stories, here is The Second Christmas by F.K. Foraandh. It’s a short one, but it’s a really interesting philosophical and theological meditation. It’s a fictional piece about what may or may not have gone through the minds of the holy family as, during the second Christmas, they started to deal…
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Gloria in Profundis by G.K. Chesterton
In keeping with our annual tradition — Christmas readings of the best Christmas stories — here’s a poem by G.K. Chesterton entitled Gloria in Profundis. It’s a poem about how the fall of God is greater than the fall of man: If you’d like to hear more of the best Christmas stories, click here. cover…
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A Christmas Carol Stave 3 : The Second of Three Spirits by Charles Dickens
Keeping my tradition of Christmas readings of the best Christmas stories, here is A Christmas Carol Stave 3 : the second of Three Spirits by Charles Dickens. This section focuses on the ghost of Christmas present: If you’d like to see more of the best Christmas stories, go here. Stave One Stave Two
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Six to Eight Black Men by David Sedaris
In keeping with our tradition here of the Best Christmas Stories, I’m reading Six to Eight Black Men by David Sedaris. I have Andy Nash to thank for showing me this one. It’s a story about how the Dutch dress up in blackface to accompany Santa Claus — and why we too might have such offensive and…
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Best Christmas Stories : Annual Christmas Readings
Every year, I add some more of the best Christmas stories to my backlog of Christmas readings. This year, I’m a little more organized: I’ve streamlined my recording equipment (by which I mean my iPhone uploads a whole heck of a lot faster than that thing which plugged into my old iPod nano as well…
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Why Tara and I Quit Social Media. All Of It.
Starting this month, Tara and I quit social media. All of it. Deleted about ten years of followers on Twitter accidentally — that kind of kicked it off. Then I deleted about 25k in Reddit karma. Nothing to brag about, but certainly not an insubstantial amount either. She got rid of Instagram and Facebook. I…
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A Christmas Carol Stave 2 : The First of the Three Spirits
Keeping with my pseudo-tradition of reading Christmas stories, this year I’m doing A Christmas Carol. The whole story’s kind of long, so I’m breaking it up into its component staves (It’s a carol, remember?) Here’s A Christmas Carol stave 2, The First of the Three Spirits. I always think of A Muppet Christmas Carol on the first of…
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A Christmas Carol Stave 1 : Marley’s Ghost
Keeping with my tradition of reading Christmas stories, this year I’m doing A Christmas Carol. Of course, even Dickens’ oral manuscript that he modified original is still pretty dang long, so I’m going to have to break this sucker up into its component staves. (It’s a carol, remember?) Here’s A Christmas Carol stave 1, Marley’s Ghost. Marley’s ghost always…
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Sitting at the feet of : The Spirit in The Song
In which I interview the band Eine Blume on how they capture the spirit of a moment in music.