We have chosen the hard coal Christmas songs to light up your holiday season. Partially based on what you listen to — and us, as well.
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Category: Christmas
Tracking the yule log: Should Krampus visit you this year?
War.. pestilence. Pollution. Vanity. Selfishness.. cruelty. Bullying.. Are we guilty? Do we deserve the sharp fangs and the whipping of bird branches from his sack, maybe even being drug into the underworld?
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When Santa went to the mall in 2003 with the Raggin Piano Boogie Man
Yes.. here we go again. Another nostalgic Coal Speaker post about the ‘malls’.. The nonstop posts. The memories. The melodrama that is the shiny halls of yesteryear.
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The festival of Samhain
Samhain. The festival of darkness and fire. And when Mariah Carey is born again.
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We’ll have a multiverse Christmas: Santa is real
We have been informed by sources that overall belief in Santa is hitting an all-time low. Officials report that children, most under 10 years of age, are still able to believe but doubt Santa at a much earlier age as time goes on. By 11 or 12, they are completely done with leaving cookies and milk and instead think their parents or guardians leave gifts under the tree..
Hopefully we can out some facts out there about this waning tradition.
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The Christmas of ‘something is missing’
For two nights now, my son told me this before dozing off: Something is missing. When pressed for more information, he simply responded he doesn’t know what it is, but he definitely feels like something is missing..
We all do.
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