• Feel the warmth! Feel the coziness!

Merry Christmas, Weekly Rangers—even if you don't happen to celebrate this particular holiday, we hope that you'll spend some quality time with your friends, family and loved ones.

Feel free to grab some coffee or hot chocolate, gather 'round our yule log GIF and chat in the comments with your favorite internet family—even the ones you can't normally stand.

We've got a few things to share today, and we'll be back at full force tomorrow.

Thanks for coming by, folks. Have a great day.

BroScienceLife is a YouTube channel that's apparently being brought to the world by Mike & Gian Comedy, who I have never heard of before but will start following now because this is 100% MAGIC.

If there are better ways to spend a minute and a half on YouTube than listening to George Takei reading smutty literature, I'd like to hear them. But until then, I'll keep alternating between this and Gilbert Gottfried's enlightening narration of E.L. James's ode to rough sex.

With the deadline (Dec. 21) fast approaching, now seems like a good time to get you folks caught up on Tucson Weekly's GIF contest, and what it's all about.

Animated GIFs have, as of late, entered a sort of renaissance period. They've been used lately to recap everything, from TV shows like The Walking Dead to the Olympics to the Presidential debates.

Now, we want to see the GIFs that capture the essence of Tucson. We want things that are funny, things that are beautiful and things that might be just a bit weird.

The deadline, as stated above, is Dec. 21. For full details, check out the contest page here.

Remember: WHEN YOU ENTER, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A LINK TO YOUR GIF. We can't give you a prize if there's no GIF to give prizes for.

Check out our previous GIF contest stories below for examples, descriptions, and the contest entry page.

So We're Having An Animated GIF Contest

Enter Our GIF Contest: We Literally Have a Stack of Gift Cards To Give Away

Show Us Your GIFs!: What We Want to See

Weekly Wide Web: Show Us Your GIFs!

"Show Us Tucson in GIF Form" Contest Entry Page

Tommy Edison has been blind since birth. He has, literally, no idea what the visual world is like — the things we take for granted, such as the ability to read this sentence, he has no experience with.

Which is what makes his YouTube channel incredible. On the the Tommy Edison Experience, he explains blind living for sighted people with videos such as "Blind Cooking," "How a Blind Person Uses Paper Money" and "Shit Sighted People Say to Blind People." Forget the fact that he's also known as the Blind Film Critic.

But my favorite video of his, at this very moment, is "Describing Colors to Blind People," where he describes that there's a "whole part of language that doesn't mean anything to [him]." It blows my mind, really making me reconsider the figurative language I use — and the fact that I've spent too much damn time trying to decide whether or not I want the blue wireless mouse, or the red. Check it out below.

During a particularly slow moment today, incoming Tucson Weekly editor Dan Gibson and I spent far too much time and money attempting to obtain a present in our break room's vending machine, left by the enterprising folks who stock said machine.

It's a tale that includes counting change, disbelief in how much we spent, the horror of an object that got stuck in the machine (twice) and the use of a wire hangar to dislodge the item so we could collect our bounty. It's a project that took a good ten minutes and produced a fair amount of amusement.

In an effort to give this story some closure, and justify the expense to myself, I present the following image to TucsonWeekly.com readers for your approval:

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• We spent five bucks on all that?!

That's right. We spent somewhere in the neighborhood of five dollars for off-brand Lifesavers, lemon cookies, a lint brush, some candy canes, a nail file and Corn Nuts.

And the worst part? The chips at the top, which actually look like they're worth the effort if they were included, were the ones we purchased in an effort to obtain the package. Evidently, we imagined that the present held untold, life-changing riches within its wrapping paper—Powerball-esque life-changing! Or, y'know, some kind of gift card, at least.

The lesson? Ten minutes of amusement are generally worth about five dollars and a blog post.

Have a good evening, folks.

So, the GIF contest. As has been said before, we think that GIFs are awesome. I tend to lean toward hilarious GIFs from the world of sports, such as my personal favorite, a rollerblading mascot of the Toronto Raptors faceplanting on a basketball court:

• The best part is his tail!

Others in the office tend to prefer the understated beauty of Cinemagraphs, which capture moments in a video-like fashion, such a trip through Space Mountain, or an evening rainstorm in the city:

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• Peaceful. Beautiful. Not too cliched.

That's great too. We love these, and we'll take any sort of Tucson-based spin on 'em. Just refrain from posting this from the UA/Iowa game a few years back:

• It's not because she's cute, it's because the GIF is old.

Personally, I'm hoping for someone who edits something spectacular into a GIF of Matt Scott vomiting on the field. Dehydration and/or concussion symptoms aren't funny, but a man spewing forth a rainbow of My Little Ponies? Screw friendship; THAT is magic. (On a related note, good luck this weekend, 'Cats!)

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• That man on the left doesn't want to eat you, I swear.

Not everyone is having the same kind of extremely awesome day that we here at Weekly World Central are having, but that's okay! We sympathize, and offer the kind of solution that only works if you aren't within arms reach of someone who you are okay having physical contact with.

Head over to The Nicest Place on the Internet, and allow the multitude of folks there to cheer you up with all manner of hugs at awkward, chest-level webcam placements. For a bit more about the project of kindness, check out their YouTube video here. And cheer up, friend. We've got all the ehugs you need.

No, really. They've made sure of it.

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Those clever folks over at Mother Jones have ensured, with this bot filled with alarmist climate buzzwords, that they'll be scaring MoJo readers long into the future, so long as the species that takes hold of the planet after our demise gains the ability to read English.

Head that way, give it a click. It'll give you something to panic about (if you're a hyper-liberal) or rant about (if you're uber-conservative) this evening.

This may not shock you, but the man responsible for this video lives in Portland. I know, right?

"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" comes out next week, and my expectations for who will be at the midnight showings have now skyrocketed.