Tag Archives: christmas

Mystery Bear

A crocodile may not be the mascot of Australian Christmas…

…But Mystery Bear is most definitely the official mascot of the annual Comedy Central On-air Promo Evil Elf, passive-agressive, “Machiavelli meets Christmas”, gift exchange. And this year’s party was a doozy!
Details to follow tomorrow.
Until then, let the mystery bear be.

The Christmas Croc

Look everybody, a crocodile… the official mascot of Christmas in Australia!
Wait..that’s not true. It’s just some pic I took in the Daintree Rainforest this summer.
Yes, it’s real and I was way too close.
No, it’s not a “Christmas Croc”. (But you knew that because it wasn’t wearing a Santa hat.) I just don’t have [...]

She’s Crafty

I am so sure you haven’t entered my awesome giveaway yet! Go here to weigh in on the best Thanksgiving dinner and you may win a delicious Pie cookbook. See ya’ there…

If you were Harry Potter and I was Horace T. Slughorn, Potions Professor and head of Slytherin house, there is no way [...]

The Salties Reign Supreme!

Dear brothers and sisters,
While you all forced caramel-filled Hershey kisses into the middle of chocolate dough and threw some powdered sugar on top of generic butter cookies, I peered just over the box and found a recipe that would change our world forever. It wasn’t the cookies’ oatmeal base or white chocolate chips that [...]

A Christmas in Queens

I’m winning the cookie contest with a recipe I’ve created, the likes of which the world has never seen. Chocolate will be shed on this day!
My brother, text message.
No doubt when Ken Burns makes the documentary about this first Jackson Christmas Cookie-off, my brother’s text will be read by Donald Sutherland over a [...]