emily rogers
How to make hot dogs
My recipe blogging cis self confronts the darkness at the heart of the multiverse.
movies
The best Christmas movie you've (probably) never heard of
The Holly and the Ivy is both deeply old-fashioned and unexpectedly modern.
taylor swift
Taylor Swift's evermore is a Christmas album
Finally, someone creates art that is very specifically about being sad between December 22 and January 3.
christmas
That time Robert Downey, Jr., and Kermit the Frog made a Christmas special together
And then it was never spoken of again
Episodes: The last Christmas
The way you knew my grandparents' house was close, in the dark, on a cold Christmas night, was when you reached the bottom of the long, snowy hill, your headlights would flash across a single spot of red, reflective tape, then catch the ghost of a cardboard cutout in
Episodes: A Christmas story
It took us far longer than it should have to move out of the old apartment, choked with dust and junk as it was. It was a place we had both disappeared into, and even though we budgeted six weeks to crawl out of it, it took us an extra
Episodes: Why A Christmas Carol endures
When I interviewed him at the end of The Leftovers' second season, Damon Lindelof said something that's stuck with me ever since. The best stories, he suggested, are all about transformation on some level. I'm sure if you and I sat down, we could come
Episodes: The fake Christmas Americans celebrate
Jaime Weinman has a strong piece today about how many of our Christmas songs take place in a version of the 1890s that the songwriters who created those songs had no first-hand experience with, to say nothing for those of us who sing or listen to those songs now. Something
Episodes: "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" is a perfect song
Have you heard a bad version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"? I mean, I'm sure one exists. I'm sure in the vast infinity of Christmas covers, there's a terrible, rotten, no good version of this song. But it's