Besides the awesome Trump minifig, Dr. Girlfriend also got me the LEGO® Christmas Tree (40573). It is a really fun build, albeit a tad tedious at some points. That tediousness is worthwhile, though, and is necessary: it means the tree has incredible details.
Merry Christmas, everyone, from The Portly Politico!
Here’s wishing everyone a day of Christmas cheer and merriment with family and friends.
While opening those gifts, don’t forget the reason for the season: the Birth of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Christ Is King!
Merry Christmas!
—TPP
Good old Ponty is always bailing me out when I need it most. Actually, I now have ample time to loaf about and enjoy the fun of Christmas Break, but that’s precisely the time I don’t want to be dreaming up films to review.
Cue Pontifex Maximus with a chestnut roasting over an open fire. That chestnut is a faith-based film based on a story by Max Lucado that is, apparently, good. Finally, Christians are making some good art!
It sounds like a lovely film, and a good antidote to the endless array of cookie-cutter Hallmark films out there.
With that, here is Ponty’s review of 2013’s The Christmas Candle:
Can you taste it, dear readers? It’s the peppermint-encrusted taste of Christmas! Let’s continue our with the reindeer with this pre-Christmas Lazy Sunday:
Happy Sunday—and Merry Christmas!
—TPP
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My buddy John and I played our annual Yulestravaganza the evening of Saturday, 14 December 2024. We played a couple of one-hour-ish sets, full of classic Christmas carols, standards, and hits.
The only attendees were the barista and Dr. Girlfriend. One shifty-looking nerd sauntered in halfway through and set at the extreme far end of the coffee shop, apparently putting as much distance between us and our Christmas cheer as possible.
We had a really good time.
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Dr. Girlfriend and I exchanged our Christmas gifts this past Saturday evening, following a little Christmas show my buddy John and I hosted at a local coffee shop. Her gifts were super thoughtful and fun, but one in particular made me guffaw and grin with glee: a “LEGO” knock-off minifigure of our 45th and 47th President.
We’re tantalizingly close to Christmas—just ten days away! Here’s some more Christmas cheer from the past week:
Happy Sunday—and Merry Christmas!
—TPP
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Yesterday my students performed their annual Christmas Concert. It was a really fabulous concert, and I am super proud of my students. Other than some very small glitches—for example, the first soloist on “O Holy Night” came in late (no big deal—we just kept vamping a C major chord until he started) and his wireless mic got a little crackly on the first few words—it went very smoothly.
There are essentially two parts to the Christmas Concert. The first part involves the Foreign Language classes, which perform Christmas songs in their respective languages. I always say that it’s not really Christmas until the Latin students sing “Rudolphus” (“Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” in Latin). That part is fun, but it’s kind of like checking a box to me: the Foreign Language students get a grade for singing in the concert, and it means a lot to a longtime Latin teacher for the students of the various Foreign Language classes to sing.
The second part is the real concert, when my Middle School and High School Music Ensembles get to play. Here is the program for that portion of the concert:
I didn’t get too crazy with our programming this year, and a few repeats from last year (“Jingle Bell Rock,” “Silent Night,” and “O Holy Night” are always perennial picks).
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Tomorrow my students have their annual Christmas concert. Neither of my Ensembles are performing “Joy to the World” this year, but it remains one of my favorites. I love its rollicking and robust melody, which seems to charge forth, first with that delicious downward D major scale, and then it’s jaunty, bouncy return back up the scale in leaps.
I’ll have to dust this one off for next year’s concert, and I will certainly be playing it at church (if I have not already done so by the time this post publishes). It’s one of the best to belt out with a room full of people.
With that, here is 14 December 2023’s “TBT: Joy to the World“:
The Christmas season is upon us! Here are some posts to celebrate this festive season:
Happy Sunday!
—TPP
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