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The original idea behind The Nightmare Before Christmas told through poetry, narrated by Christopher Lee.

Motion graphics studio 39 Degrees North needed a Christmas card, so they turned to Neil Gaiman’s poem, “Nicholas Was…” from the anthology Smoke and Mirrors into a short film. The result is a brief but powerful Christmas nightmare.

You can read the original poem on the author’s website.

You know, when you really think about it, the whole concept of Santa is seriously creepy. I mean, he’s a fat man who dresses up and, after a year of judging you from afar, invades your home to accept your offering of cookies and milk. Then, he either leaves a reward or punishment in your stockings.

An eerie take on a Christmas classic. Previously in the series: Werner Herzog Reads Where’s Waldo, Werner Herzog Reads Madeline, Werner Herzog Reads Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, and Werner Herzog Reads Curious George.

Here’s a hilarious D&D Christmas cartoon making the rounds of the usual Internets sources. I came across it while Googling the terms “gank” and “manger” for a special Christmas demotivational poster. The video distracted me from the task, but it’s funnier than anything I could have come up with anyway.
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You can purchase prints of this illustration or download the image as a desktop wallpaper from the artist’s website .

Source: Rob Sheridan’s SketchBlog

Source: The Evil DM

With Christmas swiftly closing in and Japanese Culture Thursday stretching before me, I began wondering. How do the Japanese celebrate Christmas? The answer is, of course, they don’t. 84% of Japanese people profess to believe in both Shinto and Buddhist precepts, whereas less than 1% of the population practices Christianity. I still have a hard time believing our western culture hasn’t rubbed off at least a little on the Japanese, though. So, I ran a Google search for Japanese Christmas traditions, and came up with some interesting results:

• Merry Christmas is said, “Kurisumasu Omedeto.” Happy New Year (a much bigger holiday in Japan) is “Shinnen Omedeto.”

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