Santa brought me the Young Ones on DVD, the OHM electronic music box-set, some cook books including The Veganomicon, and even winter snows! But perhaps my favorite gift of the modern era is the internet, where I can go back and see strange clips from things I saw on telly when I was ten!
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Archive for the ‘Christmas’ Category
I want Mike for Christmas!
Posted in Bands, Bubblegum, Christmas, Comedy, Personal Shit, Television on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Slade beats Simon LeBon at Christmas!
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Christmas, Comedy, Glam Rock, Performers, Television on December 25, 2008 | Comments Off
It’s fifteen minutes until Christmas! Enjoy it the Slade way. From The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer…
Radovan Karadzic arrested
Posted in Celebrities, Christmas, Comics, Other Stuff, Politics on July 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb president from 1992-1995, the ”Butcher of Bosnia” (not sure who coined that nickname–maybe me?), has been captured and will be “transferred to the Hague in ‘due course.’“
When I see this guy, I can’t help but think of Joe Sacco’s book War’s End, his graphic novel about the war in the former Yugoslavia. [...]
A Christmas Story
Posted in Christmas, Movies on December 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was in San Francisco for Christmas, away from a well-stocked Christmas kitchen, and had to make do with some family at a Chinese restaurant. It reminded me a bit of one of the least P.C. scenes in one of my favorite movies:
Has there ever been a better Christmas movie than [...]
Who Says a Good Action Sequence Doesn’t Belong at Christmas?
Posted in Christmas, Movies, Mystery Science Theater 3000 on December 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In creating my list of potential all-time best Christmas songs, I omitted one of my faves! How could I forget MST3K’s “Patrick Swayze Christmas?”
There’s no tradition like a new tradition!
This is from “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians,” which is not nearly as good as “Santa Claus,” but whatevs.
The Ventures’ Christmas Album
Posted in Albums, Bands, Christmas, The Ventures on December 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is the most rockin’ Christmas album of all time. It doesn’t contain the best Christmas single of all time (I’d probably give that award to Elvis, the Chipmunks, Chuck Berry, Spike Jones, Run DMC, the Sonics, the Crossfires, Slade, the Beach Boys, Wizzard, or Dr. Elmo), but it is the best, most consistent album [...]
Little Drummer Boy
Posted in Celebrities, Christmas, David Bowie, Songwriters on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was getting a sandwich from the deli section of Whole Foods (literally standing behind the “making copies” guy, which was weird) when I realized that they were playing this Christmas ditty over the speakers:
I don’t know why this particular Bing Crosby/David Bowie song caught the public imagination so strongly (you [...]
