Twelve Trees of Christmas Page #8

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He's researching vintage recipes...

Paul, can I ask you a question?

Sure, Mack.

You ever had calves foot jelly?

What's that?

You take a couple of calves feet,

boil them down

- jelly.

No, I've never had calves foot jelly.

What on earth are you reading?

Victorian cookbook for the holidays.

Thinking of trying out

a couple of recipes.

How do brains balls sound to you?

It sounds like Hannibal

Lector is your mentor.

Broiled kidneys... Pigeon compote.

Okay, stop... Please.

All right.

How about some bubble and squeak?

Jelly bouillion and mutton sausage.

Come on!

You know what, maybe

stick with desserts.

Yeah...

I guess Victorians

had stronger stomachs.

See ya.

Would you look at that...

Candied duck foot web.

Huh.

Kind of like potato chips.

Deirdre and Artie, they have

the technology, but no theme.

But it's state of the art technology.

Technology can only help us

express the theme we choose.

It is not a theme in itself.

The lights are cool.

Yeah, but what does it mean?

I mean, behind every great

creation is a purpose.

Last year I put up a tree in here

using all light-emitting diodes.

I didn't even use a real tree at all.

We have to use a tree.

It's one of the rules.

I'm just saying it's superfluous.

I could do it without one.

Not the point.

The tree is the palate for our vision.

So, no lights?

Lights are in, but we need a theme.

Oh, man...

What did you learn at the library?

Electronics and computer science.

And we're back at square one...

How about you?

Hmmm... People.

I mean, I'm new to the city,

so volunteering at the library

helped me to meet new friends.

Really? Someone like you, eh?

I can't believe you'd have any problem.

I think people would fall

over themselves to meet you.

Well, I wanted to meet...

People who care about things.

And people who are curious enough

about the world around

them that they'll spend time

getting off their butts

and learning stuff.

And have you met the

right kind of people there?

Yes.

I've met all sorts of

wonderful people there.

The Martinsons don't

have a theme listed.

No, I know.

I was surprised they even signed up.

I feel like every time you

see them they're all busy

and stressed out and

rushing off somewhere.

Courier knives.

Too old fashioned.

Star Wars!

What does that have

to do with the library?

Come on.

We borrowed the DVDs from the library.

Then what does that have

to do with Christmas?

The theme is what the

library means to us?

Okay, we take movies out all the time,

so movie themes are a possibility.

All right, romance,

suger plums and mistletoe.

A vampire Christmas!

Yeah, a fresh blanket of snow.

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