Blogging pioneer, model citizen, and all-around wonderful human being Dan Lovejoy graced our home yesterday to deliver a selection of delicious candies, including dark chocolate covered cranberries, and nutty chocolate toffee bits. Phoebe and I like the confections so much that we had to tell the children that Dan is a nice man who brought us some spinach.

Thanks, Dan and Angi! Merry Christmas!

(Hat tip: Galatians 5:22.)

A particularly cute animated version of Abaigeal’s favorite Christmas song, White Christmas.

The latest Carnival of Comedy is up at IMAO, with a collection of “Love Boat”-themed links to blog posts broadly classified as humor.

Last year we linked to “It’s a Wonderful Life, re-enacted by bunnies.” So this year, we are pleased to link to “A Christmas Story, re-enacted by bunnies.”

Did you know that the Oklahoma City Zoo website has a kids’ page, with three games? And that one of these games lets you make a fish with feathers? Well, now you know.

(UPDATE: The Patriarchy of Gleesonia is now included in the revised map!)

Finding your way around the Empire of Blog was never exactly an easy task, but it has only become more difficult since the Great Partition. Thank the Politburo-Diktat for publishing an updated map of the divided kingdom, including the major principalities of Kostria, Wingery, and Centriola, along with the tributaries of Instyvania, Malkowina, and Depravia, among others.

This cartograph will be a boon to the novice Blog traveler, and yet one wonders at a few unfortunate omissions of important landmarks. Just for instance, the majuscule “G” in “WINGERY” is so placed as to obscure the small but respected Patriarchy of Gleesonia. A revision is in the works, which one hopes will correct such omissions.