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Nathan Bransford
Brooklyn, NY
United States
Brooklyn, NY
United States
Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow (Dial, May 2011), Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe (Dial, April 2012) and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp (Dial, February 2013). He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd. and is now the social media manager at CNET. He lives in Brooklyn.
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21 comments:
Delightful. Thanks, and a very Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Thank you, and Happy Holidays to you too, Nathan.
-Gabor
Merry Christmas, Nathan!
I love it! haha
Merry Christmas :)
LOL, I love that song, thanks so much Nathan! Merry Christmas everybody! And a happy new year! :)
Just to make it more (or less) fun, the main theme to this, which goes:
3-5, 3-5, 3-56717
Is a form of an inversion of the main theme, best heard in "Making Christmas" later on:
1-7-1-6
That theme is the Gregorian Chant "Dies Irae" or "Judgment Day" (thanks, Maris!). You also hear it in "Jack's Lament" and in nearly all the songs as either the original or the inversion.
So, happy inversion of Judement Day!
Merry xmas!
Ohhh, what a treat! Thank you, Nathan! And a Merry Christmas to you and yours!
PS: If I may add to Erik's comment about "Making Christmas," also in The Nightmare Before Christmas:
If you'd like to compare "Making Christmas" and the Dies Irae, here's the link:
http://marisbosquet.blogspot.com/2008/08/dies-christmas.html
I do hope if works! If it doesn't, please feel to yell at me! LOL ;)
Oops! Maybe that should be
http://marisbosquet.blogspot.com/2008/08/dies-christmas.html
Sorry...
Oh, I forgot! I don't mean to go off topic, but...
Elyssa, I remember you from Eloisa's site. Could you please email me if you remember a book called Some Trust in Chariots? Thanks!
...And it's still not showing...The end of the URL should be /dies-christmas.html
O.K., I'll to back to the turkey now...
Merry Christmas Nathan and fans
Awesome. Happy Christmas to you and yours.
*slinks off to carry on cooking Christmas dinner*
Merry Christmas to you and all yours. I hope your holidays are going well. We've now completed all our festivities, and I'm trying to get to use my presents. It may take a while.
Happy New Year (the holiday I celebrate) and I hope all your holidays are wonderful too.
Long live Jack and Merry Christmas to everyone!
Best wishes for the season and thanks for your help in the past year
Love that show. Who knew Christmas and Halloween could mix?
Merry Christmas to all! I hope everyone had at least as wonderful a day as I've had. And we still have Hanukah , Kwanza and New Year's to look forward to...
That was great, Nathan. And thanks for not being politically correct. Merry Christmas to you! I enjoy your posts a great deal.
Hmmm....
And my husband thought my son and I were strange singing 'Kidnap the Sandy Claws' while opening presents.
Happy Holidays, everyone!
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