Oh Holy Night is one of the 2 or 3 Christmas carols I actually like....er...liked. (the best thing Adolphe Adam ever wrote.... including "Giselle&quot

How about:

It's the first year April Winchell has let me down. If you don't know the site, do check out http://www.aprilwinchell.com/audio/ for some of the most horrific wastes of (mostly) vinyl in history. I especially recommend the Dixie Power Trio's "Stairway to Heaven," featuring tuba and banjo. And who knew Kim Basinger put out a recording? It probably contributed to her decline as teen heartthrob into rarely working--too bad, she turned into a fine mature actress.

So I'll leave you with the only Xmas song I can relate to, a lively ditty about murdering your relatives during dinner on St. Stephen's day, Dec. 26 and the day the Irish do the real celebrating since Xmas is for being bored to distraction by church and baby Jebus.

"Hollywood Affair," a fitting title since they were a twosome at the time. Here's the whole fascinating story of Kim Basinger's rise and fall and rise and fall in the movie industry. From LeBeau's excellent series "What The Hell Happened To...":

http://lebeauleblog.com/2012/02/05/what-the-hell-happened-to-kim-basinger/

Merry Christmas from the Family, by Robert Earl Keen

That "rendition" of O Holy Night was painfully hilarious. Yes, you can hurt yourself laughing.

I wish I could find a complete version of Stephen Colbert's "Another Christmas Song" but I guess they have it under a tight lock and key.

Why are people who live in mobile homes always classified as white trash? I live in a mobile home and that song offends me.

Especially since many of my own friends & relatives live in mobile homes. Back here in the South, where I'm currently visiting.

And I'd come close to that "white trash" thing myself, I guess. No indoor plumbing until I was 11 years old, etc.

Then there's this charming family story about my Dad's 3 sisters. He came from a farm family, and his sisters always warned him to stay away from town girls who were "mill-hill trash." Girls whose family worked in cotton mills and lived in the company-owned houses. A/k/a "my Mom."

Happy Holidays anyway!

But I'm Australian...

Count Dracula,
Frankenstein's creature,
Sherlock Holmes,
Fu Manchu,
Rasputin,
Lord Summerisle,
Scaramanga,
Ramses,
Death,
Count Dooku,
Saruman the White,
WW2 R.A.F. flier,
Relative Robert E. Lee and Ian Fleming,
Guest vocalist with heavy metal bands,
Star of his own 2010 heavy metal album,
92 years old...

and
Releases heavy metal Christmas songs -

Here's 2014s:

Didn't know a lot of that stuff, and I'm a big fan of Mr. Lee.

Like "relative of Robert E. Lee." Back here in the South where I'm currently visiting, one of my friends is a Civil War "re-enactor." Unfortunately his group seems to serve up a big load of Fundamentalist Xianity along with their re-enacting. He sent me some web links one time. Lots of stuff about God and neo-Confederate hokum about State's Rights.

I like to annoy him by quoting Robert E. Lee on secession ("flatly unconstitutional&quot and slavery ("an unmixed evil&quot .