Finally A Compelling Reason To Buy That High-Def TV
The opening lines of this AP news story provide the core information necessary to update the TV Yule Log Phenomenon entry in ones cultural database:
What more could there be to say?
Well, quite a bit, actually. The Wikipedia Yule Log (TV program) article unfolds the saga of the origination of the film as “a televised Christmas gift to those residents of ‘The Big Apple’ who lived in apartments and homes without fireplaces,” the cancellation of the program in 1990, the public campaign that [Alert: pun impending] rekindled the Yule Log in 2001, the near-tragic near-loss of the video when it was misfiled as “A Dog’s Life,” and the decision in 2003 by Tribune Broadcasting (parent company of WPIX) to air the program in television markets across the U.S. on WGN-TV and its sibling Superstation as well as other Tribune-owned local television stations — a story, IDHO [In DrHGuy's Humble Opinion], significantly more interesting and worthy of attention than the flaming Yule Log itself.
More information and an online version of the Yule Log can be found at the official Yule Log Web Site
The iYule iLog
And to answer that as yet unspoken, fundamental question now forming in the iLobes of the brains of iPodians in the audience, one can indeed download a portable version of the Yule Log loop that will play on video iPods.
The Perfect Complement To The Simulated Burning Yule Log
DrHGuy admits that, despite his concerted efforts to appreciate the appeal of the TV Yule Log, he doesn’t quite get it. This cluelessness, however, has obviously not prevented the publication of this Yule Log-centered post because DrHGuy’s responsibilities to his flock exceed his own sphere of passions just as his reach exceeds his grasp by a margin that would make Mr. Browning giddy with delight.
Nor does DrHGuy’s failure to grasp the attraction the Yule Log has for its national audience preclude DrHGuy from trying to cash in on the success of this broadcast spectacle.
Consequently, the Heck Of A Guy blog now offers, for your viewing pleasure and DrHGuy’s (much deserved) aggrandizement, the perfect companion piece to the never-ending Yule Log simulation — the perpetually post-shaken1 snowstorm simulation we like to call
Update: Yule Log-Rolling
- Warning: It is not only unnecessary but potentially counterproductive to lift, shake, and otherwise agitate ones computer to produce the Potemkin snowstorm, which, through the Christmas miracle of Flash animation, is self-sustaining. [↩]
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