In the spirit of the season, The Two Mikes from Doppletown Are gonna try to find the cold heart of horror in Dickens's heartwarming classic. It is a ghost story after all . . .
And then we're gonna drink our Christmas Cocktail:
Bloody Smoking Bishop
First, resolve to mend your miserly ways. Then wash and roast 6 unpeeled blood oranges (or 4 regular oranges and a grapefruit) in oven until brownish. Stick each piece of fruit with 6–8 cloves and place in warmed earthenware bowl. Add 1/4 pound of sugar and two bottles of red wine. Cover and leave in a warm place for 24 hours. Squeeze fruit into wine, then strain mixture into pot. Add 1 bottle port and heat: DO NOT BOIL (in this one case you are allowed to be stingey with the coals). Ladle into heated mugs and serve.
Music: The Most Wonderful Time of The Year
And then we're gonna drink our Christmas Cocktail:
Bloody Smoking Bishop
First, resolve to mend your miserly ways. Then wash and roast 6 unpeeled blood oranges (or 4 regular oranges and a grapefruit) in oven until brownish. Stick each piece of fruit with 6–8 cloves and place in warmed earthenware bowl. Add 1/4 pound of sugar and two bottles of red wine. Cover and leave in a warm place for 24 hours. Squeeze fruit into wine, then strain mixture into pot. Add 1 bottle port and heat: DO NOT BOIL (in this one case you are allowed to be stingey with the coals). Ladle into heated mugs and serve.
Music: The Most Wonderful Time of The Year
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Gentlemen,
In regards to the Spirit of Christmas Yet To Come, I always imagined that this spirit, unlike the others, would look different to whoever he/she/it appeared to, depending on how that person thought about their future (and their impending death). It reminds me of "Jacob's Ladder," where the freaky shaky head demons and angelic little Macauly Culkin were really the same psychopomp, but differed in the way that Tim Robbins fought against the idea of his death at any given moment. And, in order to kick Scrooge into the action that will change the future that the Spirit is showing him, he had to be as horrifying as possible.
In Tiny Tim's case, the Spirit would probably look like a Kate Greenaway Flower Fairy
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