Tag Archives: war on Christmas

Happy Holidays from your friend in Ypsilanti

By Mark | December 23, 2014

Posted in Mark's Life, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Christmas, greeting cards, Krampus, torches | 12 Comments

Krampus 2014 recap

By Mark | December 22, 2014

Late last week, I got a call from a writer at National Geographic. She wanted to know why the people of Ypsilanti had decided, five years ago, to summon the spirit of Krampus back to earth. Now that Krampus events are becoming more commonplace around the United States, she wanted to find out where it […]

Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Black Mirror, Brian Bruxvoort, Casey Dawson, Charlie Brown, cloven hooves, Corner brewery, Daily Nightmare, Devil worship, Dirty Snowball Sundaes, Dreamland Theater, faces on fire, Go Ice Cream, ice cream, Jessica Sheeran, Jim Leach, Krampus, Krampus Ball, Mike Perini, National Geographic, Pandora's Lunchbox, Peanuts on Ice, Rhyta Musik, Ryan Dawson, White Bear | 19 Comments

John Waters v. Kirk Cameron… Whose side will you take in the War on Christmas?

By Mark | September 3, 2014

How is it that we live in a country where an accomplished director like John Waters can’t find the money to make a Christmas film, while someone like Kirk Cameron can? I know there are more important things to be upset about, but, Jesus Christ… How did we come to a point as a society […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Rants, Religious Extremism | Also tagged bad movies, Christmas, culture war, Fruitcake, John Waters, Johnny Knoxville, Kirk Cameron, Kwanzaa, Lousy Lambs, meat, movies that I want to see, Parker Posey, Saving Christmas, shoplifting | 16 Comments

The early American origins of the War on Christmas

By Mark | December 30, 2013

This holiday season Sarah Palin became the most recent in a long line of shameless conservative pundits to cash in on the so-called War on Christmas. Her book, “Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas,” was released at the end of November to the delight of poorly informed Fox News-viewers everywhere. The […]

Posted in History, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bible, Bill O'Reilly, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, Church of England, Easter, evangelical, Foolstide, FOX News, Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas, human sacrifice, Increase Mather, Jesus, Michael D. Hattem, nativity, pagan, paranoia, persecution complex, Puritans, religious freedom, Roman, Sabbath, Sarah Palin, Saturnalia, secular saboteurs, secularism, The Junto, the secularist agenda, wassailling | 12 Comments

KRAMPUS 2013 to be held the night of December 21 in Ypsilanti

By Mark | November 9, 2013

About three years ago, those of us responsible for the Shadow Art Fair, decided that local kids could benefit from the knowledge that, while Santa Claus goes out each Christmas Eve, visiting the homes of all the good children around the world, he has a no-so-jolly associate that does the same for those boys and […]