HAWK TALK – Surviving the (Holiday) Experience

This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about holidays, winter and otherwise. Topics, roughly: Time, which used to make sense Several holidays and feelings, media, and traditions related thereto Flash Gordon Mixed-faith families A New York Christmas Wedding (the lesbian time travel gay dead baby angel movie) Gingerbread Secular rituals Night in the Woods: Lost Constellation The Dark is Rising (again) The Spirit of Christmas (which is to say, exploding) J. Michael Strazynski’s The Real Ghostbusters Community‘s first three holiday specials Justice League: Comfort & Joy Passover and that time Moses gave Pharaoh a frog Passover and Miles trying very hard to play it cool Chocolate bunny funerals Easter basket comics Being excellent to each other and partying on Links and further reading: In Defense of Humbug by Jay Smooth