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Not only can I not take compliments, I'm utterly incapable of even feigning proper Holiday Spirit. At least, not without assistance .

And I have absolutely no clue as to where I stole that image from.

As Priest said many years ago, "Drunk and alone on Christmas... the way life *should* be."

He used that in his .sig for a while, I think. Coincidentally, first message I clicked at Google Groups when I searched for it said:

As we get to "know" characters, *they* start to control story direction as possibilities for conlfict present themselves. Shoehorning in characters of particular race or gender just to check items off a list is, IMO the wrong way to go about it. A more organic approach, following the logic of the premise, and writing the Truth as The Writer understands it, is my preference. This does not always lead to The United Colors of Benneton. It's not always fair. But I'd rather that than PC utopian well-wishing (my pet peeve: multi-cultural street gangs).

Also a pet peeve of mine, but that's not helping the Holiday Spirit thing either.

I'll spare you the explanation of how I got from Priest's site over to Greg Morrow's unfavorable review of The Truth:

I'll also mention that in Simon and Kirby's original, the doctor in charge of the Super-Soldier project was clearly a refugee German Jewish scientist-- he was even named "Dr. Reinstein". For him to now be portrayed as a racist of this sort is distasteful at best, particularly given that this is all happening in World War II. I don't particularly want to read some kind of moral equivalence, that we were as big a bunch of evil racist jerks as the Nazis we were fighting, because we weren't.

More impressions than review, actually. He mentions that he didn't actually buy the thing.

Won't argue about that last sentence, either. That's moving even further from the Holiday Spirit, after all. . .