Xavier Remington
Many think that the day after Thanksgiving, aka the dreaded Black Friday shopping melee, kicks off the Christmas season. As far as shopping it probably does. Although the corporations have been desperately pushing that back to the day after Halloween in the name of maximum profits. Some even attempt to advertise for Christmas before the Halloween Season even begins! Even well before emerald foliage first exchanges its color for another of the rainbow. At some point,...
Christmas
Friday, October 13th, 1989 Santa Claus’s battle with Jason Voorhees amid the 1989 Halloween season took place in Ohio. Santa ended up saving a group of teenagers who decided to spend a spooky Friday The 13th night at an abandoned summer camp. Naturally, they thought it was all good fun to invoke the nefarious name of Voorhees thinking he wasn’t real. To their shock, they found out he was very real! Jason then went after them...
Long before calendars were agreed upon and long before Epiphany had a name, there lived an old woman in the hills of Italy known simply as Befana. She was not feared, nor was she celebrated. She was respected. Her humble inn was immaculate beyond reason, scrubbed so clean that even dust seemed afraid to linger. Floors gleamed like still water, shelves were aligned with obsessive precision, and every tool had its place. Cleanliness was not merely...