Christmas Ball Blues, Leon Redbone (1988) From his album Christmas Island, the song is a cover of Bessie Smith‘s At The Christmas Ball 1925..
Category: Holidays
Natalitial Hot Links
Hoy, Hoy, Hoy (Rockin’ on Christmas Eve), The Honeydippers (1997) The band was formed in 1996 by rockers Gary Twinn (guitar) and Danny B. Harvey (guitar), with Clem Burke (drums) and John Carlucci (upright bass).
Porky Pig does Blue Christmas.
Look at this doggle [h/t Bunkerville].
Oh. Christmas tree [h/t Mme. Jujujive].
“Seagulls gonna come. Poke me in the coconut.”
[h/t Bits & Pieces]
Ellen Baker’s Solar System [via American Digest].
Museum of Wonky English [h/t Memo Of The Air].
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From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Terry Gilliam, Oliver’s Boogie, Booker T. & The M.G.’s, and someone named Fran Martin
“In 1968, while learning his trade and working in London as an animator, Terry Gilliam somewhat accidentally created a short film, the project would later take on the working title of The Christmas Card.”
THIS KID.
With only a week until Christmas, Booker T. & The M.G.’s Time Is Tight seems fitting. Have a great weekend. I’m gonna sleep in before things get too busy.
Oh, and just one more thing because it’s awesome.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 780 – Yule Train, Snow Dogs & A Glasshole
Santa’s Elves?
[Found in here.]
Un Pere Noël
Redhibitional Hot Links
Santa Claus Boogie, The Voices (1955) Robert “Bobby” James Byrd sang lead with The Voices, and as Bobby Day, had a hit with Rockin’ Robin in 1958. He had a string of hits writing and singing with a number of R&B groups, including the Hollywood Flames, that usually consisted of the same performers. Not to be confused with Butane James & The Famous Flames member Bobby Byrd.
THIS is how to arrive in port.
BFFs [via Bunkerville].
Computer girls of yore [via American Digest].
Shambleau!
[h/t Memo Of The Air for making me DuckDuckGo it.]
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From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Thanksgiving 1628 vs. 1928
[More Thanksgiving stuff here.]
Veterans Day – An Interview with a Vietnam Green Beret
Green Beret David Christian was unquestionably a war hero in the Vietnam war and as he says, fought valiantly on behalf of the USA. My team and I conducted more than 200 interviews in 1989 from people who had lived through the 1960s and had strong feelings about what they had witnessed and lived through, not only during the war, but in the 1950s growing up and in the time since that war has ended. David Christian was wounded 7 times receiving 7 purple hearts as well as the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism. When he returned from the war, he worked as he does today, to help Vietnam veterans. Bill Ehrhardt, who presents his story in my very popular video clip, “Magnificent Storyteller Soldier” shared his personal experience. Many of my subscribers have reacted to it. I feel that David Christian is an equally powerful storyteller whose war perceptions and experiences were quite different. In this video he reflects on his early upbringing in the 1950s, his Catholicism, his powerful relationship with his mother, his experiences with college protesters in the antiwar movement, his return to America and his battles to help his fellow veterans deal with PTSD, job opportunities and other issues that they have confronted. His story evolves during the interview as he expresses more and more deeply, how he felt and what he saw and how he dealt with it. – Filmmaker David Hoffman
Update: David Christian’s Distinguished Service Cross citation is here.
[h/t Dan Patterson.]
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
All previously posted elsewhere. Bottom image: Inverted color version of storm clouds photographed by Sol R. Land who is living somewhere in the bush with his dog.
Tacky Raccoons 