Just checked my mailbox. Still no "The Kardashians' Very Addams Family Christmas" card in there.

But one has to admire the way the reality TV personalities embraced the villainous side of their image by dressing in an overwhelmingly black color palette for their Christmas card this year. The black-tie theme goes rather nicely with the dark cloud hanging over the brand, now being sprinkled with media reports that its clothing line is caught in a sweatshop investigation. That's way more serious than having what appears to be pounds shaved off certain family members via Photoshop for this particular card.

No Photoshopping was required to eliminate Kris Humphries, the formerly underestimated someday ex-husband of Kim Kardashian. The family's Christmas photo shoot apparently happened shortly after Kim filed for divorce on Halloween.

I received a card from much nicer people in the Los Angeles area -- music producer Jimmy Jam's family.

It confirms, with the help of Jimmy and Lisa Harris' eldest son, Tyler, what I observed during a recent jaunt through Atlanta's airport: The 'fro is back!

Young Tyler, 15, is rocking a fabulous Afro, looking model-ready for a Macy's ad. He did not apparently get the family memo regarding footwear, however. Tyler is wearing some kind of athletic shoe (he looks too young for plantar fasciitis) while the rest of the family is in dressier shoes, including Bella's 11-year-old twin, Max. Wearing a three-button suit, Max looks like he could handle a photo shoot for Ermenegildo Zegna.

The holiday card from the women behind Prior Lake-based McFarland Cahill Communications made the most of their surroundings.

It looked to me as though the firm's eight employees poked their heads out of four windows in the office of Teresa McFarland to wave at the camera of photographer Kathy King. But Maureen Cahill told me Wednesday that the sun wasn't cooperating in McFarland's office, so they used the windows across the hall in the space of another PR firm, Bellmont Partners.

"We thought of it, got scarves and it served our [Rock Creek Building] well," said Cahill. "It would have been out of our windows if not for the sun."

My pal at PETA, Dan Mathews, senior veep, sent me the collector's edition of vegetarian stamps.

"Think before you eat and consider joining the millions of people, including these iconic figures, who've opted to live and let live by being vegetarians," reads the message on the stamps. Among the living icons: Bob Barker, Ellen DeGeneres, Paul McCartney, Pamela Anderson and Morrissey. Among the late: Pythagoras, Gandhi, Schweitzer, da Vinci and Tolstoy.

Mathews continues to be my friend despite being pranked by me with a porterhouse steak the last time our schedules coincided.

George Hamilton is the 2011 celebrity on the card of Fox 9 contributor Todd Walker.

Hamilton was at the State Theatre performing in "La Cage Aux Folles" with Minnesota-born actor Christopher Sieber.

"Like Father Like Son" reads Walker's greeting, which implores us to have a "TanFastic Holiday Season!"

Pssst, Christopher: I'm no dermatologist, but some of these spots on the ever-tanned Hamilton's face, in the Walker card, look worrisome to me. Pass it along.

Brad Madson, director of community relations for the Vikings, has one particularly handsome prop in his holiday card featuring "3 Christians: Christian Ponder (7), Christian Ballard (99)... and ME! [as in Madson]."

Verizon has to be especially happy with Madson's card. Both football players are wearing jerseys bearing big ol' Verizon logos.

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