2016 January 18

Greeted Bill M. in front of DR.

Photos: “Threading Eyebrown” sign at Fantastic Jay.

Went to EHC in the cold to try to get paperwork done only to be turned away at the door because it hadn’t occurred to me the offices would be closed for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Probably shouldn’t have eaten at M to N thereafter although I did stick to a low‐carbohydrate plan. Photographed their signs about sexual conduct in the upstairs washroom.

Photos: Blurry young men in McDonald’s.

Paper towels and AA cells from C & S, but they didn’t have sixty‐watt light bulbs or seventy‐percent rubbing alcohol.

Photo: New K & L wall logo.

The cashier was again on the phone when I was at the checkout counter at FD. {…} I said goodbye to the short handsome worker near the door.

Wiki activity

(“Santa Claus,” Public Domain Super Heroes) Added three appearances and some Ded Moroz origin information.

Ded Moroz is the Slavic counterpart to Santa Claus, but in the most famous tale told of him, he acts more like Jack Frost or the Frost King, and public‐domain stories in English often even translate his name as King Frost. He is, nevertheless, portrayed as distinguishing a nice child from a naughty one, giving gifts (to the nice one), and driving a sleigh pulled by a team of six white horses. In the tale, he springs from one tree to another and has the power to make a young woman who was abandoned by her family in the cold forest become colder and colder. However, he takes pity on her when she does not complain and gives her jewels and a silver‐ and gold‐embroidered robe (or a fur coat with beaver trim in another version). When her family then leave her stepsister in the same spot expecting similar gifts, Ded Moroz literally freezes the rude stepsister to death. …

• “A Song of Saint Nicholas,” Rhymes and Jingles, by Mary Mapes Dodge, 1882. Makes no mention of reindeer, but instead claims that Saint Nicholas is able to visit every child’s home because he travels via their dreams. (Internet Archive) …

• “The Story of King Frost,” Childhood’s Favorites and Fairy Stories, vol. 1, ed. Hamilton Wright Mabie, Young Folks’ Treasury in 12 Volumes, 1909. (Google Books) …

• “King Frost,” More Russian Picture Tales, by Valery Carrick, trans. Nevill Forbes, 1914. (Internet Archive)