Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

24. December 1999 – 57 Elm Street, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – 11:51P.M. Scully, we’re too late. It’s already been here. Mulder, I hope you know what you’re doing. Look, Scully, just like the other homes: Douglas fir truncated, mounted, transformed into a shrine; halls decked with bows of holly; stocking hung by the chimney with care.…

Twas the nocturnal segment of the diurnal period preceding the annual Yuletide celebration, and throughout our place of residence, kinetic activity was not in evidence among the possessors of this potential, including the species of domestic rodent known as Mus Musculus. Hosiery was meticulously suspended from the forward edge of the wood burning caloric apparatus…

‘Twas the night before Cat-mas and all through MY house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…(I ate it). My kitty stocking was hung by the cat door with care, In hopes that Santa Claws soon would be there; The humans were nestled all snug in their beds, While we cats in the…

On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my Significant Other in a consenting adult, monogamous relationship gave to me:

People often think of ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ as the days preceding the festival. Actually, Christmas is a season of the Christian Year that lasts for the twelve days beginning December 25 and lasting until January 6 – the Day of Epiphany, when the church celebrates the revelation of Christ as the Light of…