Holiday Guide

• Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum: Think your family's fucked up? Our writers share their holiday memories, compare drunken relatives, and offer you the Stranger Christmas Experience. PLUS: The story of Candy Cane Lane, and our really useful Gift Guide 2000! by David Schmader and Jennifer Vogel
• Holiday Fun with Unitarians by Melody Moss
• Fake African Christmas by Charles Mudede
• My Mean Mom by Tamara Paris
• Gratitude by Barley Blair
• No Gifts at Hanukkah by Allie Holly-Gottlieb
• Christmas of Death by Grant Cogswell
• Grandma Bernice by Jennifer Vogel
• Merry Christ-Ass! by Jamie Hook
• Dog Bite by Stacey Levine
• Christmas in Vegas by Min Liao
• The Dark Ornament by Monica Drake
• Leaving Ohio by Phil Campbell
• Craps for Christmas by Paula Gilovich
• Good Ol' Uncle Merrill by Rachel Kessler
• Riding Santa's Sleigh by Kathleen Wilson
• Ho Ho Hork! by Rebecca Brown
• No More Christmas by Traci Vogel
• Obsession & Lights: True Story of Candy Cane Lane by Jamie Hook
• Christmas in Israel by Samantha M. Shapiro
• Higher Than Jesus: Getting the Most Out of Midnight Mass by Kathleen Wilson
• A Charlie Brown Christmas by David Schmader
• Incredibly Useful and Puritanically Practical Gift Guide: Or What You Really Want by Novella Carpenter and Rachel Kessler
• The Gift Bitch by Barley Blair