My Kind of Christmas Tree

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No Christmas Tree for the Simpsons

Every family has that one Christmas story they tell every year, for the Simpson’s, it’s more like an explanation as to why there's no tree. Ashlee and Jessica Simpson never get to put gifts under a real Christmas tree because their mother refuses to put one up. Mamma Simpson had a mishap with a tree when the girls were younger and she's been traumatized since. Jessica recalls, "She put 5,000 lights on a real tree - the first time we'd ever had one. And she's yelling at my dad to help, and he's reading a book. We hear this scream, and my poor mom has fallen off her ladder into the tree, and all you could see were her little feet sticking out the bottom... We have never again had a real tree." What's your family Christmas story? [lien] [EN]

Christmas Tree Turmoil For The Simpsons

Christmas Tree Turmoil For The Simpsons Pop siblings Ashlee and Jessica Simpson never get to put gifts under a real Christmas tree - because their parents refuse to have one in the family home. The sisters’ mother has always been a big fan of Christmas, but she gave up on buying a real tree after a festive disaster when the girls were young.[…]Read more! This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 at 1:02 am and is filed under Jessica Simpson. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [lien] [EN]

Now Available At Hobby Lobby: Christmas Trees? [Christmas Creep]

Why is Hobby Lobby selling Christmas Trees in August? WHY?! We can understand the tinsel and countdowns, maybe, but !@$% Christmas trees? This picture comes from Hutchinson, Kansas where it will be 92 degrees on Friday. We called Hobby Lobby for an explanation... A disarmingly unseasonal saleswoman explained that all Hobby Lobby locations now sell Christmas trees. They're not real, because real trees die after one month, nature's way of telling you to slow down and appreciate Thanksgiving. The saleswoman found nothing wrong with the new arrivals, and thought it was "great" that the trees were finally available in August. Reader Justin disagrees: From a store I've never heard of called "Hobby Lobby" in the small town of Hutchinson, Kansas. This picture was taken on August 12th. [lien] [EN]

Beyonce To Light Up Rockefeller Christmas Tree

Beyonce will help NBC kicks off the holiday season on Wednesday, December 3 (8-9PM ET/PT) with the lighting of the world’s most famous Christmas tree during the 11th annual “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” telecast. Today’s Al Rokerwill host the live holiday celebration of the 76th Tree Lighting Ceremony. The star-studded annual tree lighting extravaganza will also have performances of current hits and holiday classics from David Cook, Jonas Brothers, Faith Hill, Tony Bennett, Neil Boyd, Harry Connick Jr., Rosie O’Donnell and The Broadway Kids, Rascal Flatts and Solange Knowles. [lien] [EN]

Taylor Swift: Christmas Tree Farm-Raised

Taylor Swift appeared and performed on Friday’s episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The almost-19-year-old country superstar sang her hit song “White Horse” and told a great story about being raised on a Christmas Tree farm. She shared, “Yes! I did [grow up on a Christmas Tree farm], so this is a good season for me. I was too young to help with the hauling of the trees up the hills and putting them onto cars. So, it was my job to pull off the preying mantis pods off of the Christmas trees. The problem with that is if you leave them on there, people bring them into their house. I forgot to check one time and they hatched all over these people’s house. And there were hundreds of thousands of them. And they had little kids, and they couldn’t kill of them because that’d be a bad Christmas. [lien] [EN]

Most Expensive Christmas Trees

Luxury Property Blog looks at the most expensive Christmas trees ever! This one, in Singapore, featured 21,798 diamonds, 3,762 crystal beads, and 456 lights, for a cost of over a million dollars! How does that compare with a cut evergreen that costs as much to select, fell, and ship? You’ll also see expensive ornaments, unusual [...] [lien] [EN]

Cablevision Strings Cables Like Blind Might A Christmas Tree [Cablevision]

Peter writes: Some construction work was ongoing in the neighborhood, and it disrupted the underground cable services. Verizon and the electric provider fixed their wires within a day. Cablevision couldn't figure out how to fix their underground wiring, so they proceeded to run a coaxial cable out of the pedestal on my front property, up a tree in my front yard, where it was tied on with some copper wire, thrown across the street, tied to a lamppost head again with copper wire, dropped back down the lamppost, into another pedestal. It sat like this for well over a month and Cablevision insisted there was nothing they could do about it... I made three service appointments to fix it and each time I was told my picture quality was fine. I eventually got them to fix it by lying through my teeth that I was about to cut down my tree. [lien] [EN]

Britney to Light Rockefeller Christmas Tree

The ceremonial lighting of the massive Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is always such a special time for New York City. And this year, comeback kid of the year Britney Spears will be taking part in the celebration! Ok! magazine reports ... [lien] [EN]

Christmas Creep Is Mutating At Walgreens: "Halloween Trees?" Seriously? [Christmas Creep]

It's bad enough when people send us pictures of Halloween decorations mixed in with Christmas ones, but a "Halloween Tree"? What the hell is a "Halloween Tree?" Wikipedia says The Halloween Tree is a novel by Ray Bradbury, but somehow I don't think this is what he had in mind. Maybe the Halloween decorations are mating with the Christmas trees? (Thanks, Darrell!) Read More: KB Toys: Who Needs Halloween When You Have The "Pre-Holidays" Instead?, Merry September! Christmas Is In Full Swing At Rite Aid!, Confirmed: Christmas Is Creeping, Lowe's Halloween Decorations Are Already Sick Of Christmas [lien] [EN]

Spoonful of Christmas

I have problems with pomegranates. I love them, the way they look, the way they taste. I just never exactly know what to do with them once I bring them home from the market. There are only so many pomtinis or pomeritas a girl can drink after all! Last year, I was quite pleased with the pomegranate-infused truffles that I made, but making my own chocolates isn’t something I’m likely to do on a regular basis. And, while the little seeds are fantastic sprinkled here and there in salads, there must be more to be done with the jewel-filled fruits sitting in my fruit basket. Recently, I saw a recipe for a chicken cooked in pomegranate molasses and the little wheels in my hamster cage of a brain started turning. Pomegranate molasses sounded rich and dark, earthy and sweet, and the cravings started kicking in. [lien] [EN]

Trim-A-Tree

Trim-A-Tree MyTurn:  Our Christmas tree is like a big scrapbook.  Since we’ve made a habit of buying ornaments that represent things, our tree and the process of trimming it are very sentimental!  We have “sections” on our tree: vacations, grad school, each kid has a section, Star Wars, It’s a Wonderful Life, etc.  We try to add new ornaments at this time of year to represent the big events of the past months, and pick up new ones during the year when we visit new places. This fabulous lady is celebrating her eigth year with us, and she’s one of my favorites.  We got her the Christmas that we got married, which also happened to be the Christmas when the world was bracing itself for the dreaded Y2K event.  We’ve loved her from the start, and every year at least once either Brooke or I has to say “Happy New Millennium”  in the breathy Marilyn Monroe voice we imagine that she has. [lien] [EN]

Christmas Gifts

[Guest post by DRJ] It looks like I’m in charge around here now that our host is apparently on his way to his native land, which means I can post on all the goofy things that are on my mind. Right now the main thing on my mind is Christmas. The best thing about Christmas is that our kids are old enough so we don’t have to find a must-have toy but young enough to still want to be home with us. We adults are young enough to be healthy and active and old enough to know how to savor each moment. That’s a win-win right there. While there aren’t as many gifts under the Christmas tree now that the kids are older, we eat well now that we’ve become Food Network aficionados (thanks Ina, Giada, and Tyler) and the kitchen is a fun place to be around the holidays. Our most extravagant Christmas gift was a red two. [lien] [EN]

The Best Christmas Present Anybody Could Ever Have

My coffee buddy, Butte County Sheriff Perry Reniff helps Alexis Dominguez exit the helicopter (Photo: Bill Husa, Chico Enterprise Record)  Today was a good day. No, strike that, today was a GREAT day! The saga of the Dominguez family lost in the snow looking for a Christmas tree hit home with me in a big way, because I had people from all over asking me what the weather was going to do to the search and rescue effort. I was the bearer of bad news, which I hated, because the winter storm bearing down made survival even less likely. (Note: for national/international readers of this blog, this story unfolded in my home city and county) Mountain weather is unforgiving. Fortunately, they knew what to do. They improvised a snow cave, wrote “HELP” in the snow, and stayed put until rescuers could find them. [lien] [EN]

3D Christmas Cookie Cutters

If you don't want to throw down the $1000+ for a custom, 3D candy printer, these $15 cookie cutters are just the thing to satisfy your multi-dimensional sugar cravings. The plastic templates cut the dough into shapes that will slot together after baking, making such stand-up seasonal treats as snowmen, Christmas trees and hallucinogen-munching reindeer. Product page [One Step Ahead via Baby Gadget] [lien] [EN]

LED Faux-Fur Coat Is Christmas Tree of Fashion

The fake fur LED overcoat, containing more lights than a christmas tree, needs no further explanation: describing or otherwise communicating its qualities would only serve to dilute the horror of seeing it. Product Page [Enlightened via Gizmodiva] [lien] [EN]

Christmas Tree Takes To Airwaves

Edmonton Sun: Stoking the holiday spirit, Shaw Cable is offering viewers a Christmas tree that requires no setup or takedown and leaves behind no pine needles to clean up. The cable company this year is giving subscribers a Christmas tree filled with a different kind of sap. Building on the notorious fire log channel, which transports a burning fireplace to viewers’ living rooms, Shaw Cable launched the spinoff Christmas tree channel this weekend. The Christmas tree channel gives Shaw Digital and Star Choice TV viewers ongoing access to a 50-foot Colorado Spruce, decorated with more than 6,000 multi-coloured lights and hundreds of seasonal ornaments. “Adding the Christmas tree to our lineup provides viewers a variety of holiday classics to light up their homes and warm their spirits. [lien] [EN]

George Clooney’s Stolen Tree Memories

George Clooney’s Stolen Tree Memories George Clooney enjoyed a cheeky festive season while at college - he once stole his neighbor’s prized Christmas tree. […]Read more! This entry was posted on Thursday, December 27th, 2007 at 5:02 am and is filed under George Clooney. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [lien] [EN]

Danger Ranger’s Annual Post-Yule Pyre Christmas Tree Beach Burn

Christmas is over, so you know what that means. It’s time to grab a dead Christmas tree and join the Friends of the Rootless Forest for Danger Ranger’s Annual Post-Yule Pyre this Saturday, January 5th. Here are my photos from last year. An annual San Francisco tradition occurs at this time of the year, when the last stand of sidewalk fir trees is logged by the Friends of the Rootless Forest and then piled up on the beach for some very rapid composting. Saturday, January 5th, meet at the Carousel Diner, 2750 Sloat Blvd at 7:00 PM. Look for the giant Doghead in the middle of the street. We’ll hang out for half an hour and then head west, using caution, stealth and tom-foolery to avoid the white tiger that prowls the Great Highway. Bring a christmas tree and libations. No glass containers on the beach. [lien] [EN]

Christmas Tree Removal Through Jan. 19

Traditionally Christmas decorations stay up through New Year's Day, which means today is the official start of the "chucking your dried-up tree onto the sidewalk without regard for your neighbors or trash collection schedule" season. Allow DCist to help point you in the proper direction for Christmas tree disposal. The District Department of Public Works is collecting trees from sidewalks starting today through Jan. 19. However, in order to be certain DPW will pick up your tree, you need to place it outside before Jan. 13. You should ensure that your tree is not obstructing a pedestrian pathway and leave it there until it is collected. Trees collected before Jan. 19 will be mulched by the city. If you place your tree out by Jan. 13, and it is still not collected by Jan. 19, you should call (202) 727. [lien] [EN]