At long last – the monsters and fantastic creatures of the holiday season. From the resurgently popular Krampus to elves at the North Pole to snow golems animated into a grotesque mockery of life by enchanted headgear, to say nothing of the connection of a mystery ape from the Himalayas to the spirit of Christmas, all of these will be detailed in the Reverend Matt style!
Opening entertainment by Nicholas Nelson!
This week’s entry is my third appearance at the Encyclopedia Show Minneapolis, way back in December of 2012! (Which explains the bit at the end of my piece.) It’s the first one where I began to get abusive with that show’s monthly theme, which was, in this case, “Obsolete Diseases.” Still, it went over pretty okay, and afterwards Mike Fotis (a producer of the show, seen here transitioning between myself and fact-checker Levi Weinhagen) was kind enough to give me a standing invitation to the show. I thanked him, and said, “But you do realize I’ll always take the monthly theme and turn it into being about monsters?” “Yes, that’s fine, you’ve shown that you can do that,” he said.