*Tour-ette from Minneapolis and Santa's Village in the Mall of America. 11/18/2019

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*Tour-ette from the Mall of America. 11/18/2019

Back to the Nickelodeon nightmare!! LOLOL!

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Sybil Bruncheon's MORE THAN THEY SEEM STORIES... “The Gifting Season!… 1954”…

Harriet Garamonde had always loved Christmas! All of Christmas! Its traditions, decorations, music, food! The sights and sounds and smells… everything! The stories of the Baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph, the stable, the villagers and the Angel, the Three Wise Men. She adored the Christmas tree. Lit in the night with glorious ornaments covering it, and the possibility of a heavy snow falling on Christmas Eve itself. And she was consumed by the mystery and wonder of a character like Santa Claus coming into chldren’s homes in the middle of the night as well… the excitement and almost-danger. Had she been a good girl… or bad?

So, as a grown woman, now highly successful and glamorous in New York City with her thrilling fashion career, she tried to keep all that Christmas magic alive. She had never gotten around to having children herself nor even married. But that didn’t stop her in the middle of the night from breaking into apartments in her building and sneaking as many toys and presents as she could out through the windows and down the fire escapes! She DID finally decide that her Balenciaga vicuña coat with the sable collar was totally impractical and that she should just wear an all black leotard and sweatshirt… like she did in the French underground… as an assassin.

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Sybil Bruncheon's MORE THAN THEY SEEM STORIES... “Thanksgiving For Two!"...

For a change, Ginny decided to make an intimate little Thanksgiving dinner for just Herbie and herself.. No in-laws smirking or sniping and adding their two cents about the stuffing, the pies, the cranberry sauce. Ginny was exhausted by Herbie’s entire family; not just his idiot-parents, but all the cousins, aunts, uncles, and hanger-on friends that trailed along for every Holiday, every barbecue, every vacation… and then, that one Thanksgiving, she realized she was just as tired of Herbie. So she began putting a little extra “pepper” from the “special” pepper-mill on his dishes… and by Christmas, well... everything was solved. And Herbie ended up so very much like the poor little corn plant that Ginny kept by her hutch in the kitchen…

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Sybil Bruncheon's "Mythology In Our Time"... The Kraken...

Oh, Perseus, handsome and brave, we beseech thee to return once again from the Heavens! To surrender your dazzling constellation of twinkling stars in the first quadrant of the Northern night sky, and take up human form once more, if only for a brief time. Son of Zeus himself, hero of the great myths, rouse yourself from well-deservéd slumber and leave your lovely Andromeda and her mother, the vain and foolish Cassiopeia! Bridle once again your glorious Pegasus and take flight! Bring forth the monstrous and fatal head of Medusa, vile snake-headed Gorgon, whose terrible gaze can turn any and all to stone. Come, bold and clever champion, ride the skies, and destroy the Kraken that has infected and ruined our own time! Thrust Medusa's loathsome visage into the hideous, sneering, and yowling face of our own modern-day monster who we dared to invite against wiser counsel. We thank thee and offer our meagre, mortal gratitude which can never, ever be enough for your aid in our salvation. And when you have plunged the reeking filth that aspires to claim our souls back into the roiling sea or some fiery pit where it belongs, we will honor and bless you on your journey back home to the starry Heavens, to the arms of your beautiful Andromeda, and to the company of the Gods and fantastic beasts that whirl softly round and round in their mysterious sky-dance, as they have since the beginning of time itself... and will ever do so... even to the end.

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From Sybil Bruncheon's "MY MERRY MEMOIRS!"... every family should have one!

This is the accurately labeled Witch's Cottage on my family's estate in Greater & Lesser Marnier and the Triple Sec Islands. It was so-named because among European royalty (even in small principalities and duchies) it was customary to have an acknowledged and well-respected member of the occult world living nearby and supervising all metaphysical and alchemical matters for the family. Our resident witch was named Burtininko Kopūstų-nosis... "Burty" for short, and we loved her dearly. She was a cross between Edna May Oliver and Marie Dressler, and was an endless fount of wisdom, brilliance, scolding, and love... LOVE! She lived to be at least 112... and probably much older since she lied about her age for at least 60 years... I have never recovered from her passing, and she is the only thing my twin sister Dagmar ever wept over, and you all know how reliably heartless she is...

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From Sybil Bruncheon's "MY MERRY MEMOIRS!"... a hide-away for Dagmar...

This is my twin sister Dagmar's "Tryst House"... she would sneak out at night and meet her various beaus at all hours (and sometimes in BUNCHES! Can you imagine!) They'd row up underneath (no motors running to wake the grounds keepers!) and bring entire baskets full of delicacies and expensive booze for marathons with Dagmar who seems to have been positively Olympian in her endurance... like Augustus Caesar's daughter, Julia!!!

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Sybil Bruncheon's "Factual Flights of Fashion & Fabulousness... 1954"...

With the rise of the New Look after the deprivations of World War II, fashion and fashion photography took on an equally "new" power in the newly mega-wealthy United States. Both photographers and their models became icons in both the publishing and entertainment worlds, and their power as arbiters of taste, style, and elegance was irrefutable. The first super-star of the magazine cover was Dovima, formerly Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba of Queens, NY. Constructing a stage name for herself out of the first two letters of her Christening names, she soon earned the then unheard of sum of $60 an hour modeling, making her the "dollar-a-minute-model" when other girls were lucky to make $20 a day. But, as with all fame and fame-phenomenon, copiers and "knock-offs" began showing up on the runways and in the fashion magazines as well.

It was the 1950s when extreme body image was desired, and possible through a return to corsets, girdles, and push-up bras... and of course through extreme dieting. A girl would do anything to fit into a Dior, a Charles James, Norman Norell, or Balenciaga. And so the 20" waist became the ideal. And the cat's eye make-up to accentuate the severity of the new 50s femininity that left padded shoulders and Rosie the Riveter buried in the forlorn dust of the 1940s. A few models that tried to unseat Dovima included Larva Larue (formerly Bettina Jonk of Kadens Fork, Delaware), Waspina (formerly Carol Ann Kannuski of Wauseon, Ohio), Mantisine (formerly Margie Medfin of Poot Landing, Utah), and Slithera-Sue Summers (formerly Djanna Fong of Carson City, Nevada). Whether on the cover of Vogue (the supreme victory!) or bouncing around here and there inside an issue of Redbook, Collier's, or Good Housekeeping, these models became the feminine ideal of the streamlined decade!... and the scream-queen stars of some of the best science fiction films from Republic Pictures!

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Sybil Bruncheon's "THANKSGIVING Headlines From Yesteryear!"...

... Here is an actual photograph of the moment in the Macy's Parade when a gigantic creature broke free from its handlers and began eating the crowd. Despite the privations of the Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression, Macy's succumbed to public pressure and replaced living beasts like this one with more reliable balloon facsimiles....although the element of excitement and potential danger was sorely missed by parade-purists... especially children who seemed to like the idea of seeing their fellow classmates torn to pieces by huge monstrous cartoon characters. The use of hydrogen DID create some possibilities for mishaps especially with cigar-smoking pixies and Santa’s elves lurking about in doorways and public restrooms, but within a few years, helium had eliminated that as well, and the parade slumped off to a forlorn ritual of honking brass bands, drunken and vomiting clowns, and prancing muffins... that might try to pinch your bottom…

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Sybil Bruncheon's "A Whole Month Of Thanksgiving!"... Thanksgiving Under Fire!

Breaking News from the CNN News Desk!!... Anthropologists and Holiday Historians are now convinced that as emotions and anti-social behavior are heightened in the USA after four years of the Trump administration, the effect will be felt in the way our Holidays are observed... and practiced!! Forecasters are concerned that by 2024, various changes will have occurred and may be irreversible... with a commensurate loss of life... and an even greater loss of "Holiday cheer". On a side note, there has been a dramatic uptick in the purchasing of firearms among vegans. Details at 6. Miniature marshmallows at 11.

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