…for shopping and gift-wrapping and people outside stores who ring bells at you and inedible fruit cakes and wondering what you're going to get your stupid Uncle Hiram and getting cards from people you don't remember and all sorts of things…
But most of all, 'tis the season to click on this link and go over to the Official Pogo Possum Website to read some of the brilliant Christmas strips done in years past by the great Walt Kelly. Ain't been nobody better, then or since. And while you're over there, you might wanna brush up on the lyrics to "Deck Us All With Boston Charlie," just in case a band of merry Boston Charlie carollers happens past your house and invites you to join them. These are the real lyrics we've posted there. Accept no substitutes.