Presents are bought, decorations are up, the egg nog is spiked, Christmas is here. Watch this video so your plans for holiday fun will go off without a hitch.

Tis the season when girls in sparkly miniskirts—who are better athletes than you'll ever be—venture out onto the cold, unforgiving ice and perform christmas miracles. Or fall on their face. Enjoy this brutal compilation of figure skater falls.

Rudy Giuliani announced yesterday that he won't be running for Senate in 2010 and is abandoning any plans to return to politics, so he can focus on his security business (see you in Rio in 2016!) and his law firm (now with offices in Kazakstan!). Rudy's speech, delivered in Conference Room E of the Sheraton Hotel (i.e. the basement), was hardly a triumphant moment for the former mayor. Per the Times:

They never learn, do they? Not to have sex with people you are not married to, that is. That is what they (elected officials) did not learn, in the 2000s. Who were they trying to have sex with? Literally everyone.

Oh yeah, here it is: the Christmas song that everyone loves to hate on. You know what, though? It's a pretty sweet little holiday song. Play on!

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Yesterday at JFK, a near-riot. Today at Penn Station, no trains to or from NJ.

Who actually responds to the crazy spammy emails asking for your bank information? Mother London wanted to know who believed enough in a "Christmas miracle" to reply— and out of the hundreds of people emailed, one man responded.

That Snooki punch that never existed was pretty awesome. The animated gif for it was even more awesome. Now the internet, as it is wont to do, goes above and beyond awesome and puts the punch into Street Fighter II.

This kitty knocks over dominos to reveal a Christmas Tree pattern.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt stopping off for a bite to eat at a branch of Cafe Metro in Midtown on Sunday ... Reese Witherspoon arriving at JFK on Monday night and crossing the street yesterday ... Hugh Jackman, Dustin Hoffman, John McEnroe, and Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist attending a Knicks game ... Ashlee Simpson shopping at FAO Schwarz and Barneys with her sister, husband and baby ... Dancing with the Stars' Derek Hough getting out of a cab in Midtown ... Naomi Watts checking her phone while walking downtown ... and Mary-Kate Olsen leaving her apartment clearly unprepared for the cold weather.

Writes the tipster who spotted the typo currently on NYPost.com: "If only 'Michael Jackson' were easy to spell, like 'Tiger Woods.'" Which is funny, except practically no one is working in media today, including here — expect light posting.

[Sienna Miller is wading for Godot while on holiday in the Caribbean. Image via INF]

This kid is in an X-Box of Emotion! He loses control of himself as his gratitude takes control of him.

It looks like this household doesn't need the Big Love DVD underneath the tree, they have polygamy down. One star may not be celebrating Jesus for much longer if she joins Scientology, and this reality star is a real Grinch.

There aren't nearly enough Eastern European pop stars in the United States. Well Valentine Strikalo is FED. UP. He may not have the best grasp of the English language, but he's gonna get Timbaland to make him famous, dammit.

• Lily Safra is making a move at 820 Fifth Avenue. The billionaire widow of Edmond Safra and longtime resident of the tony co-op building has sold her 12th-floor apartment for $40 million to Ken Griffin, the CEO of Chicago-based Citadel Investment Group. She won't be moving far. Property records indicate Safra paid $33 million to buy developer Ara Hovnanian's apartment on the 4th-floor, so she'll only be moving downstairs. [Real Deal]
• Stephen Rotella, the former president and chief operating officer of Washington Mutual, may be preparing to move back east. Earlier this year, Rotella sold his mansion in Seattle for $4.7 million; now he's paid a similar amount for an apartment in New York. Rotella and his wife, Esther, put down $4.1 million for a two-bedroom co-op at 101 Central Park West. The 2,200-square-foot apartment was first listed last year for $5.95 million. [Cityfile]
• Josh Grotstein, the CEO of the video sharing site Motionbox and a co-founder of the venture capital firm SAS Investors, is moving. He and his wife Leslie sold their apartment at 300 East 77th Street for $2.75 million. [Cityfile]

December 23, 1997 Festivus is celebrated for the first time thanks to Seinfeld's Frank Costanza.