all aboard the stick train. whoops. nobody can fit on the stick train. everybody off the stick train. okay. you were already off the stick train because that's how you started. stick train rolls alone. stick train is empty. stick train is unprofitable. stick train is retired to a rusty old junkyard. stick train's decrepit sides are used in a stock photo to advertise a vintage-style shaving brush.

#957; In which a Train is taken (Part 2)

  — August 14th, 2013

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A good thread on Terrible Dickens Sequels

December 25, 2025 by David Malki !

Over on Bluesky, Ryan Estrada has done a deep dive on the 22 (!) Christmas stories that Dickens wrote in the aftermath of the success of A Christmas Carol.

An old thread is making the rounds again, so here's an updated version. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is one of the most enduring and adapted works of literature in history. But did you know that he wrote 22 sequels? Some are great! Some are trash! Some are bizarrely fascinating.

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— Ryan Estrada (@ryanestrada.com) December 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM


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