December 2009
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ListenStan Freberg - Green Chri$tma$ I’m sure...
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Jimmy, Horatio Sanz, Julian Casablancas, and The... →
I tried to be cool about this for like a minute, but then I remembered irony died in the early-aughts, and Jimmy + Horatio always make me grin, and Julian Casablancas is still Julian Casablancas, and this is wondeful, and Merry Christmas, and god bless America, Santa Claus, the baby Jesus, ?uestlove, synthesizers, sunglasses indoors, and grandpa cardigans. If only Chris Kattan and Tracy...
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It’s the most wonderful bit of the year!
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merlin: Maria Bamford’s One-Hour Homemade Christmas Special! on Vimeo Friends. You owe it to yourself to watch Maria Bamford’s whole video at leisure and in one uninterrupted sitting.1 Because, it’s a gift. She made it for us. For Christmas. A very special, homemade Christmas gift that will, in future generations, sit alongside A Charlie Brown Christmas, Christmas Comes to Pac-Land, and your...
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“Ana: What is something that freaks out, she flies and makes no noise? ...”
– Computer-translated lyrics to Ana y Enrique’s “Super Disco Chino.”
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Raise your hand if you just fell in love with this sweet, sweet jam.
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What’s that? You’re in the holiday mood? You have a burning desire to see country superstar Randy Travis act in a motion picture? You think Connie “Married to Certified Giant John Tesh” Sellecca is a criminally underrated made-for-television movie actress? You love sassy daughters of divorce,  precocious orphans with shaggy dogs, evil social workers, and small-town...
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Listeneels, “Christmas is Going To the...
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Which mid-1990’s Debi Mazar/Anthonly LaPaglia pairing is your favorite? A. So I Married an Axe Murderer B. Empire Records
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A Holiday Gift From Marian McPartland : NPR →
Marian McPartland, host of NPR’s Piano Jazz, reads “The Gift of the Magi.”  AND IT IS MAGNIFICENT. McPartland sounds like a combination of Maya Angelou, and Will Ferrell’s impersonation of Harry Caray. This recording is a Christmas miracle/my new favorite thing.
Dec 6th
Stress makes me nostalgic.  I have so much work to do this weekend, so much to finish between now and Monday, and then Monday and Tuesday, and Tuesday and the end of the week, and after that I’ll be done with my own work but grading student portfolios, and my poor students are not getting the attention they need from me because I’m just suffocated by my own end-of-the-semester stuff,...
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ListenRobert Earl Keene, “Merry Christmas From the...
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ListenMartin Sexton, “Holly Jolly...
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