So, here’s the secret insider picture of the big nightside Christmas hoop-de-doo at WTVD this week. Shhh!

It was all very nice. We had a great feast and did Secret Santa (Thanks for the cookbook, Secret Santa!).

We did not do “Nasty Santa” — a phrase I heard for the first time this year to describe the whole stealing-somebody-else’s-presents thing. I dislike the phrase. It seems coarse, as does the practice. A Secret Santa program is far superior and more meaningful.

Anyway, fun times at the Big 11.