An invitation

If you're going to be in Houston on the night of the 23rd (or the 24th, but you probably have Christmas Eve plans already), you really should go check out Houston Chinese Church's Christmas pageant, which is a very unusual example of the genre -- it's a half-Mandarin, half-English, fully-subtitled, live-action-plus-filmed-drama multimedia event not quite like anything else I've ever seen (you can see a promotional video shot at a recent dress rehearsal here). Plus it has one very non-Chinese angel in it...though, I have to say, while the white robe and gold cummerbund function effectively to communicate, "This gentleman is pretending to be an angel," I don't think anybody would fall down in fear at the sight of this particular Heavenly Messenger -- he looks much less likely to say, "Fear not!" than to say, "Hey, wanna go grab a couple of cold ones?"