A Yuletide sentiment.
In hopes that we get an installment this year, here are Christopher Hitchens’s thoughts on Christmas–or “the Yuletide Imposition,” as he puts it–from a year ago.
Saturday, December 16, 2006
It’s really none of your business.
Well then: we’re back after a longish absence, and with nothing to say for ourselves. The last two-and-a-half weeks will just have to go down as an enigmatic silence. While we’re getting back into the swim and figuring out something to say that’s worthy of UniBrow’s intimidating standards of erudition, please enjoy the following.
We own ourselves fans of Ricky Gervais, and the next batch of episodes of his show Extras, which won’t start up in the U.S. until January, has evidently begun showing in the UK. YouTube has a clip from one of them in which Gervais’s character Andy Millman–in previous episodes a struggling bit-part actor, now the twitchy auteur behind a BBC sitcom–is humiliated at some sort of tony reception by David Bowie.
