Happy Holidays with ABC's The Bachelor

I don't know about you all, but I absolutely love the holidays.  Even though I'm technically Jewish (or more accurately, Jew-ish), there's something about December that fills me with a wintery kind of excitement made of equal parts peace on earth and goodwill towards men. One thing that really keeps my Christmas spirit going is an advent calendar.  Even if it's just a picture of an elf or some chocolate made out of sawdust, I love the daily reminder of the excitement to come.

And since, for me, the sound of eight tiny reindeer's hooves on my roof is almost as exciting as the sound of hooker heels on Bachelor Mansion linoleum, this year I thought I'd help get us all in a festive mood with a little Bachelor advent calendar.  The air date for the first episode still seems to be "some time in January," but until some time in January arrives, I'll try to put up a posting every day to help remind each of us what we have to look forward to in the month ahead.

Details about the rules for this year's league, team names, and the draft will all be published here eventually, but in the true spirit of the holidays, for now, we'll set all the ugly competitiveness aside and focus instead on that which unites us.  A long-lasting, mildly shameful, but truly deep love of terrible reality TV.