Publicola shared these with me, and in the true spirit of the season, I felt it in my heart to re-gift.

Damn It, I’m Vixen!

The 12 Days of Christmas, by Straight No Chaser

Blue Christmas, by Porky Pig

White Christmas, The Drifters

Yeah, not traditional stuff. And really, I’m with you on that. Not a fan of jazzed-up, rocked-up, sexed-up, or whatevered-up Christmas tunes. (Wrong comment thread I know, but I felt I should point that out, given the above.) (Except for the Bob Rivers stuff, which just cracks me up—Oh, Publicola included one of those too, but I already mentioned him earlier.) (Oh, and TSO too. Mannheim Steamroller, less so.)

Hey, you know where else you can listen to great music? In bars. Where they have bashes. Bashes that attract...bloggers.

We’ll talk about it after Christmas. Right now just doesn’t work so well.

Laid off already, eh? Sucks, brother. Let me know if you need a ride to the soup kitchen.

(I won’t give you one, of course. As a good conservative, I believe you should take care of your own needs, you lazy welfare bum. But I want to know, so that I can make sure not to send you anything good for Christmas. Poor people don’t deserve nice things.)

Let’s talk about it when I have spare money again.

Latest we’ve had a bash was November, IIRC.

Besides, bars will be playing tacky Xmas music. Ugh.

BTW, ZB, you’re an inspiration! I have about a bajillion Christmas CDs on request at the library. Now I just need to find some good old Pagan stuff to balance that out. (Of course, some of our “Christmas” music is pagan.)