I thought briefly of signing up for Holidailies and committing to posting about Christmas books every day in December but decided that, much as I love Christmas, I would burn out on it well before thirty posts and I fear you would too. Thinking of a favorite Christmas carol I decided instead to present for your holiday reading consideration Twelve Books For Christmas. This is the first, the twelfth will be Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol featured on December 24th and the remaining ten will be surprises scattered as regular posts between now and then. Cajun Night Before Christmas, first published in 1973 is one of my oldest personal favorite Christmas books.
This adaptation of Clement C. Moore’s Classic The Night Before Christmas has a very distinctive Louisiana flavor as a team of alligators haul St. Nick’s skiff across the swamp and up to the roof of the house and old Santa Claus comes down the chimney and burns his ass on the hot coals in the fire place. A very familiar story presented with an unusual twist. A final note. Since I definitely don’t want to miss any comments while Google (hopefully) comes to its senses and restores the ability to leave comments linked to your blog instead of a profile, I am publishing a temporarily at least on a Word Press platform, where you are welcome to comment and get a link back, albeit from a brand new blog with no juice whatsoever rather than from the one that I’ve worked so hard on. My sincerest thanks to everyone who has spoken out about this issue.
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December 3rd, 2007 at 11:47 am
Interesting looking book and although it’s off topic, I love the blog name.
December 3rd, 2007 at 1:29 pm
I quite like this new home of yours
Also I have just realised what Thin Red Line means! I feel so stupid now
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:49 pm
So glad to see you both over here. IF as I’ve been told I really can master plugins and widgets in an hour of so of RTFM, and it really is as easy as unzipping and ftp’ing, I will probably go through with migrating to this site. But damn it will be a lot of work.
December 4th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Ah…. Now I see. You must have just moved to WordPress. Good choice! If you need any help, just ask. There are a lot of folks with tons of technical experience to offer. JD over at Techfun http://blog.techfun.org/ was a big help to me a few weeks ago when I had some confusion and issues with my site.
-Will
January 27th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
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