{"id":6202,"date":"2015-12-22T02:51:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T07:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=6202"},"modified":"2015-12-22T04:44:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T09:44:36","slug":"advent-day-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=6202","title":{"rendered":"advent: day 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Virtual Advent Tour host is Carl of Stainless Steel Droppings<\/a>. You may know Carl from his reading challenges: the Once upon a Time Challenge in the spring and the R.I.P. (Reader\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Imbibing Peril) Challenge in the days leading up to Halloween. He’s currently running <\/a>the Sci-Fi Experience<\/a>, a low-key reading event celebrating science fiction, through the end of next month. I’ll stop back here tomorrow after Carl’s had a chance to publish his post and update the link.<\/p>\n

In Carl’s honor, I’m sharing a Christmas special I remember seeing once when I was a little kid. A Cosmic Christmas<\/em> was, in 1977, the first tv special from Nelvana, a Canadian company known to this day for its four decades of work in children’s animation, from the Care Bears<\/em> and Ewoks<\/em> cartoons of the 1980s (and the animated segment of that appalling Star Wars Holiday Special that first introduced Boba Fett) to the more recent Fairly OddParents<\/em>, Jane and the Dragon<\/em>, and The Magic School Bus<\/em>. A Cosmic Christmas<\/em> tells the story of a boy named Peter and his pet goose, Lucy, who, on Christmas Eve, attempt to share the meaning of Christmas to a trio of aliens who have landed outside their town.<\/p>\n