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Article by Sean Wilkinson, Not Getting Too Old For This? Merry Christmas, Ticketholders! There won't be anything so ambitious as last year's Countdown to TixMas  special, as time did not permit a full Lethal Weapon   franchise dive (a re-watch of the television series would have been too much bingeing on my part--after DanMachi  and RWBY --and the fifth installment in the film series is in pre-production Hell for various reasons) but the promised gift is still coming down your chimney. All you have to do is please remember to  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, comment at the bottom of this post, help out my ad revenue as you read, and follow me on  Tumblr ,  Reddit ,  Facebook , and  LinkedIn  to like what you see and receive the latest stocking stuffers of news on my content. I was born in the mid-80s and did a lot of my growing up and gathering of pop-cultural awareness through the 90s and early 2000s, with my desire for...

          Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster Greetings, Ticketholders! And an early, Merry Christmas! I've spoken at length in the past about my feelings on politically correct holiday greetings like "Happy Holidays" and "Season's Greetings," so my Ticketholders out there know why "Merry Christmas" is my go-to greeting. And to top it off like that cheap plastic star we all give a pine tree colonoscopy this time of year (try replacing that  visual with dancing sugarplums during your long winter's nap!), the holiday is called Christmas. Not Season Day or Holiday; Christmas . Even though its name begins with the butchered Hebrew surname of the Western God's only begotten son, Christmas ceased to be a strictly Christian holiday a long time ago . Much like Easter, another Jesus-centric holiday (celebrating the resurrection rather than the initial birth as Christmas was meant to), modern Christmas is a more strictly commercial hol...