Eyes on our December winter sky

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Posted: December 10, 2024

By Dan Hicks

Though Netflix romantic-comedy movie “Hot Frosty” will be our Christmas 2024 sensation, I fondly hope that after dedicating several days to its on-rotation viewing, defrosting Xmas celebrants might momentarily consider our starry night sky as a desperate mind-restoration remedy.

Evading Earthly exhaustion, magical hunky Hot Frosty recesses atop moonlike Mercury (RASC image), our first planet out from the sun , debuting in our late December dawn sky (details follow).

Shadowy tales of forbidden human-snowman dalliances had heretofore been unmentionable, but their newfound Netflix popularity has left this weird wintry propensity fully exposed in glaring solstice sunlight.

Even so, “Hope Springs USA” (Brockville, Ontario) would be rather more exciting were the town, in a post-romance counter-Hallmarkian sequel, pillaged by rapacious undead and unnice zombie hordes forged of steely blue ice –

“Hot Frosty Horror for our Trumpian Times!” An enterprising Kootenay locale could take a remunerative turn at playing friendly magical zombie-plagued “Anytown USA.”