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Tod Kelly
Tod is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. He is also serves as Executive Producer and host of both the 7 Deadly Sins Show at Portland's historic Mission Theatre and 7DS: Pants On Fire! at the White Eagle Hotel & Saloon. He is a regular inactive for Marie Claire International and the Daily Beast, and is currently writing a book on the sudden rise of exorcisms in the United States. Follow him on Twitter.
Too often when we talk about ethnic "culture" in America, we’re really just talking about race and...
More an more, people on the Internet are arguing that young people are better off in the...
Famed Tiger-Mom Amy Chua's new book helpfully lets its readers know which cultures and races in America...
At last we come to the end, with a song for all those that need an antidote...
There may not be a more Ordinary Times-esque Holiday song.
My favorite rendition of Silent Night is the one sung by my mother.
Our last three days of this Advent Calendar will be closing out over the next three days,...
Has there ever been a more ironically titled Christmas song than Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas?...
More than any other Christmas song, Good King Wenceslas is a mutt of an endeavor. Unlike...
Three very different versions of the classic French carol.
Over in the threads of my Real War on Christmas post, North wondered about the “secular bugaboos...
The greatest Christmas recording of all time, bar none. Also, a great companion piece to today's...
The War on Christmas in American was very real, and was won decisively in the 19th century....
Traditional carols which blended the imagery of bloody pagan sacrifices and the coming of Christ on the...
A look at the Country Western Holiday hit that morphed into a Rock & Roll classic.
It’s one of those not so well known facts that Bing Crosby’s recording of White Christmas is...
Guster somehow managed to take one of the most annoying songs ever recorded and turn it into...
The greatest cover of the Pretenders Christmas classic is the one by the Pretenders themselves. And...
The Smile of Rachel Ray is the best Christmas song you've never heard of.
