Ahhh, made it just in time. Here's my review of A Family Circus Christmas, the 1979 holiday special where Jeffy persaudes Santa Claus into delivering his dead grandfather for Christmas morning. Some of you have probably seen it, though it's by no means one of the more famous X-Massy toons. It's really not too much like the strip, which might not be a bad thing depending on your point of view. I've included four video clips with the review, so go. The calendar will be updated in a few hours.

As anyone who lives remotely close to where I do knows, parts of the East Coast were hit with a pretty massive snowstorm over the weekend. Big nasty one with lots of ice and walks that needed shoveling. Just as the storm was peaking, I realized that I was looking at my last chance to hit the stores before my car was inhaled by snowy terror.

So, we jetted to the grocery store and picked up this 18-pack of Michelob's "Ales and Lagers," pretty much the closest thing to Christmas Beer I could find. From there on out, we were stuck home with nothing but an 18-pack for around 30 hours.

There were six different kinds of wintery beer in the box; with nothing else to do, we used one of each as the tasty backdrop for six different Christmas activities. I'll tell you about the first one a little bit later. It involves beer bottle rolling pins.