OT Advent Calendar Day 9: Put the Lights on the Tree
Your OT Advent Calendar this year will be musical. Today’s tune is “Put the Lights on the Tree,” by Sufjan Stevens
Author: Bryan O'Nolan
OT Advent Calendar (& Hanukkah!) Day 8: White Christmas
Your Ordinary Times Advent calendar will be musical this year. Today’s tunes are “White Christmas” and “Mi Yimaleil.”
OT Advent Calendar (& Hanukkah!) Day 7: Musical Crimes Against Christmas
Today is Saturday, so it is Theme Day and our theme is Crimes Against Christmas. Our Hanukkah song is “Al Hanisim.”
OT Advent Calendar (& Hanukkah!) Day 6: Dreidel
You’re OT Advent will be musical. Today’s tunes are “Here We Come a-Wassailing” and “I Have a Little Dreidel”
OT Advent Calendar (& Hanukkah!) Day 5: How Do You Wassail Them Apples
Your Ordinary Times Advent will be musical. Today’s tunes are the “Apple Tree Wassail” and “Don’t Let the Light Go Out.”
OT Advent Calendar (& Hanukkah!) Day 4
Your OT Advent Calendar this year will be musical. Today’s tunes are the “Gower Wassail” and “Bring on the Light.”
OT Advent Calendar (& Hanukkah!) Day 3
Your OT Advent calendar this year will be musical. Today’s tunes are the “Malpas Wassail” and “Ocho Kandelikas.”
OT Advent Calendar (& Hannukah!) Day 2: Straddling The Line Between Wassail and Hymn
Your OT advent calendar will be musical. Todays songs are “God Bless the Master” and the English and Yiddish song “Hannukah, Oh Hannukah.”
OT Advent Calendar (& Hanukah!) Day 1
Todays OT Advent Calendar songs are “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” and “Moaz Tzur,” also known as “Rock of Ages.”
The Time Mike Pence Saved Christmas
The following story is meant as humor. As far as we know Mike Pence does not do a spot-on Elmo impression when he has two lungsful of helium.
Booper McCarthy and the Great Chicken Truck Rescue
“That is all well and good,” I said. “But how can one discern the wings of a right-wing dominant chicken from a left-wing dominant chicken?”
Stingy Jack: A Jack-O-Lantern Origin Story
This is a retelling of an Irish folktale. The modern Jack-O-Lantern may very well be derived from this tale, though there are other possible origins
The Time Mike Pence Just Shot a Man in the Face
This story is entirely fictional. To our knowledge, Mike Pence has never administered experimental doses of Thorazine to the mentally ill.
Eudoxos & Tapeinōtos: A Fable
A fable by Bryan O’Nolan: “You have lived in a land of wonder. I have had every error, every fault, written indelibly upon my name.”
Government and the Principles of Swamp Drainage
Applying a sump pump to the metaphorical government swamp by distributing the corrupting influence of money and power over a larger area.
Steve Doocy In “Once Upon a Time in the Wild West of the Internet”
One woman complained that Steve Doocy was no longer as funny as he had once been, but not to worry, we have had him in counseling for remedial comedy skills
The Archers and The Sacred Tree: A Fable
Once upon a time, a very long time ago when there were wolves in the forests and the future could be discerned through the observation of the flight of birds and the entrails of beasts
Bear Brook Murders Revisited: The Search To Identify A Killer’s Victims
For years, Bear Brook State park held a secret, one which investigators hope will be finally answered in Pearl River County, Mississippi.
The Time That Booper And I Exfiltrated Mike Pence From Cuba
The following story is meant to be humorous. Any resemblance to the Vice President or a beloved talking conveyance is purely coincidental.
Tradition & Memory: A Child’s Christmas In Wales
A Child’s Christmas in Wales is itself, and in being itself it speaks to variegated experiences beyond its author’s own knowledge.
