The Jerx Christmas Spectacular - Introduction - 4pm

[The following posts were written in installments over the course of 16 hours from 4pm December 22nd, to 8am December 23rd.]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone!

It’s me, your old pal, Andy. In the calm before the snowstorm. Just putting the final touches on the big holiday shindig. The snow is falling. The tree is lit. The stockings are hung. The punch bowl is filled. The fire is… on fire. 

The sun is just about to set here in New York. We just crept past the solstice and the nights will start getting shorter… but fortunately tonight is just about the longest night of the year, because we have a lot to get to. This party is going until sunrise.

And just to be clear, yes, I’m really here blogging live all night. For the next…15+ hours.

“So I guess you probably got a lot of sleep last night to prepare, huh?”

You’d be wrong. But that’s okay. The party is going to be hopping and I’m sure that will keep me up.

Something to keep in mind… Tonight, and for the next few days… probably until after Christmas… this is going to be one crazy long post. After Christmas I will break it up into separate entries. But for now you’ll experience the whole thing in one glorious piece.

Whether you follow along live, in real time, or come back and visit over the rest of December, try to read through everything by the new year. Some of the content will disappear after that.

Cut me some slack with the grammar. I will be writing for 15 hour straight. And there’s a gigantic Christmas party going on all around me.

One concern I have is that I don’t know the limitations on Squarespace’s post length. Like, I don’t know if something that is 10s of thousands of words long, with dozens of images and videos will cause a problem. It might break my site, or break Squarespace, or break the internet. We’ll see. If I’m forced to break things up, I’ll do so. 

I’ll be sure to check my email while the party is going. So if anything comes up, or you want to say hi, you can reach me there. But I likely won’t be able to respond unless it’s particularly urgent. And when the party is done I’ll be offline for a couple of days. 

I’ll be updating this post every half hour or so throughout the night. I’ll put the time in the title so you don’t have to bother scrolling to the end if it hasn’t been updated since you last visited.

Gotta run… the first guests are arriving.