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My nephew’s letter to Santa…

Advent & Advert Calendars are up to date. I'll be back tomorrow afternoon with news on the holiday junk food everyone must go out and buy immediately. So get clairvoyant and try to figure out what I'm talking about before tomorrow afternoon, otherwise you'll fail at buying it immediately. Meantime, click "more" to see my nephew's letter to Santa Claus, and I swear to God he wrote it. I could not possibly write something this awesome myself...

Posted by Matt on 12/12/2005. E-mail me!

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That letter is awesome. The dichotomy between a good and bad xmas tree is just great.

Plus a double dose of new advent calendar goodness.

Christmas is DEFINITELY on its way!

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Boligarky @ 12/12/2005 12:12 PM

Wow, maybe we’d buy more presents for Matt from his Amazon wishlist if he wrote his requests as cute as his nephew’s letter.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 12/12/2005 12:15 PM

Just something really strange to notice… I finally got a "first post" and it’s 12/12 at exactly 12:12.

Weird.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Boligarky @ 12/12/2005 12:19 PM

Mr. Boligarky Congrats, you got the patented 12:12 First Post Christmas Miracle while I got stuck with its meaningless bastard sister, the 12:15 Second Post.

Hey, when do we start counting down the 12 days of Christmas? The 13th or the 14th?

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 12/12/2005 12:33 PM

When I was about seven years old, I wrote a letter like that. Every freakin’ year it comes back to haunt me. My family loves recollecting how cute I used to be and then pondering what happened. Grrrr…I hate being the youngest child.

Carri, the Twelve Days of Christmas start on Christmas Day and last until the Epiphany, when the Three Wise Men came. On the modern liturgical calander, it isn’t always exactly twelve days though because we always celebrate the Epiphany on a Sunday.

Wow…I listen way to much at church.

Chestnuts roasted by Karen @ 12/12/2005 12:42 PM

I am pretty sure we start counting ON the 25th itself, and go until January 5th.

Actually, I just looked it up, click on my name to see some church-y explanation of when the 3 Kings/Wise Men/Magi/dudes-with-the-presents get to Jesus.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Boligarky @ 12/12/2005 12:44 PM

WARNING!!!

DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES GET THIS BOY BURNOUT LEGENDS ON THE DS!! IT IS A HORRID PORT OF THE PSP VERSION. SINCE HE WANTS PSP GAMES, MOVE IT TO BURNOUT LEGENDS FOR PSP. FOR THE LUVVA GOD! THE DS VERSION SCORES 3.0 OR LESS ON MOST REVIEWS!

WHERE MY CAPS BUT-oh there it is. Sorry. The PSP version is great BTW. For my Christmas list, I want Guitar Hero for the PS2, the 2 DVD behind the scenes of King Kong journal, and Godzilla: Final Wars on DVD AND PSP. (It’s an awesome movie.)

Chestnuts roasted by Jason @ 12/12/2005 12:45 PM

Looks like Karen beat me to the explanation. So click on my name THIS time to see more about the first christmas presents.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Boligarky @ 12/12/2005 12:47 PM

Your nephews have better hand writing than me. But so does the Pope, not the one they have now the one that’s dead.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 12/12/2005 1:05 AM

Wow, and I thought I liked video games.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff @ 12/12/2005 1:08 AM

Awesome once again!

I bet Nick REALLY doesn’t know much about Beavis & butthead, and that there’s more eps and stuff on the DVD versions. I like his drawing of himself with the "ME" and arrow pointing to him. Matt shold have a sign like that, it justs reads "MATT!" and it’s an arrow pointing at him.

And in Advent #11, isn’t that supposed to be Storm Shadow and not Snake Eyes with Viper?

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 12/12/2005 1:11 AM

Oops, fixed.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 12/12/2005 1:12 AM

I still have misprinted Snake Eyes window up, you think it’ll appreciate in value or should I just reload?

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 12/12/2005 1:15 AM

That window’s a bitch to keep in decent shape.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 12/12/2005 1:15 AM

Aw that’s cute. My mom saved like all the shit I made in school and stuff up until I graduated. They’re all in a big box in the garage. I should go see if there’s any old stray Xmas lists. I remember I sent a letter to Jim Davis once with a picture I drew of Garfield lighting Nermal on fire. He wrote back, too, I still have the letter and autograph and everything.

BTW – After looking at your wishlist I signed onto Amazon and my front page recommended me some book called, "Why Do Men Have Nipples?" because I looked at that Dr Pepper beefy jerky. o.O

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 12/12/2005 1:19 AM

DS is better than PSP; everybody knows that. Er….the educated do, that is. Might want to take your nephew for a walk and explain that movies and watered-down PS2 games don’t equal fun. The PSP doesn’t deliver anything you can’t just get on a much larger screen for half the price. The DS takes full advantage of the handheld format with things like a touch screen and tilt controls–things that would only work on a handheld.

He should wait to get a PSP until Valkyrie Profile comes out for it; then there’ll be a valid reason to own one.

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 12/12/2005 1:23 AM

Oh……he’s already got a DS. Never mind. The pic hadn’t finished loading.

But he actually wants "Kicking and Screaming" starring Will Ferrell for both DVD AND PSP!! He needs a freakin’ whipping now!

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 12/12/2005 1:26 AM

Oh for cute! How old is the lad?
Is Mare having pangs of conscience? The "reunion" shall be interesting.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 12/12/2005 1:33 AM

Oh no! Please don’t start ranting about if DS or PSP is the best system. They’re both good. Well, I haven’t played the PSP myself, and the people I know who own it don’t like it, but I’m sure there are some redeaming qualaties to it. . .

Chestnuts roasted by Crassadon @ 12/12/2005 1:38 AM

I remember going through Sears Wishbook and listing everything I’d want. I remember the complete excitment that I could potentially get ANYTHING… How I miss when Christmas was magical…

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 12/12/2005 1:41 AM

haha your nephew ROCKS! I am not joking!

p.s. when are you going to review the Jones regional pack?

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 12/12/2005 1:43 AM

I don’t like handhelds at all! TAKE THAT!

Chestnuts roasted by FangsFirst @ 12/12/2005 1:44 AM

Plus..
The bar on X-E still says "Today on X-E: Christmas is dead…forever! Engulf yourself in Kool-Aid and Cereal madness!"

I think, though I know from past experience it’s moot and won’t be changed until it’s thanksgiving again anyway, that this is out of date.

I could be wrong, though.

Chestnuts roasted by FangsFirst @ 12/12/2005 1:51 AM

Get the kid Animal Crossing. Oh Animal Crossing! I count the days till I’m home from college when I can hold you in my hands once more…

Chestnuts roasted by Knitter @ 12/12/2005 2:47 AM

Matt,
The movie Flash Gordon was on TV today, and all I could think was YOU HAVE TO REVIEW THIS MOVIE. Considering the entire soundtrack is by Queen, I don’t know how anyone could resist watching it multiple times.

Also, I saw Christmas Crunch (though slightly insulted it was on the bottom shelf underneath non-holiday themed cereals) and about 500 varieties of Christmas cookies at the store today. It was enough to make me all warm and tingly inside =)

Christmas calenders rock, as always. Keep it up!!

Chestnuts roasted by flygrl358 @ 12/12/2005 3:46 AM

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