[Image source: Possibly this collection. h/t Gord S.]
Somewhere in Russia
[Image source: Possibly this collection. h/t Gord S.]
Merry Christmas To All
[Image found here.]
Christmas Eve Hot Links
Ice flotilla [via Bunkerville].
Finding Etzanoa [h/t Paul Y.].
Someone is jealous [h/t Pam M.].
Christmas cards Gilliam style [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: This nutcracker baking tin appeared on our kitchen counter last week and it works.]
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Saturday Matinee – Pee Wee’s Playhouse, Dropkick Murphys, Joe Bonamassa & Chris Rea
Pee Wee Herman’s Christmas Special (1988) is kind of self explanatory. Watch the entire show if you really have to.
Dropkick Murphys and “family”.
Joe Bonamassa‘s Merry Christmas Blues album (2013) is free for download (I think).
Except for a hit in 1978, songwriter and perfomer Chris Rea is virtually unknown in the US (having never toured here). Despite long term medical problems, he’s enjoyed a successful career in the UK.
Have a Merry Christmas if I don’t see you, stay safe in your travels, and we’ll be back here tomorrow to trash talk you.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 833 – 6 Puppies Wreathing, Frosty Goes Thumpity & 9 Kittens Sleeping
Christmas in Yorkshire
Dave Z Photography
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[Update: The location is approximately 117 Main Street. Take a virtual walk via Google Maps here. This was Emily Brontë‘s old stomping ground.]
Photo Oops 1
[Most found in here.]
School of WTF
[Image of curious humphead parrotfish found here, possibly a still from this video that I didn’t watch.]
The Christmas that C.H. met A. & the C’s
This collaboration by Los Angeles Blues-Rock band Canned Heat and Chipmunks creator Ross Bagdasarian Sr. was released in November 1968 as the A-side of Liberty 56079 in time for the holiday shopping season. Though some pressings credit Canned Heat & The Chipmunks on both sides of the disc, the 30 i.p.s. rodents are not present on the reverse, “Christmas Blues”.
[h/t Marc “Savage” D. for enlightening me.]
Batrachophobic Hot Links
Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town, The Harmony Grits (1959) When The Drifters were fired by their manager after an incident at the Apollo Theater, they were immediately replaced by members of The 5 Crowns. Clyde McPhatter had begun a solo career, so the others, Gerhard and Andrew Thrasher with Bill Pinkney and Little David Baughan(?) formed The Harmony Grits, as their former manager owned rights to The Drifters name. They recorded two songs before renaming themselves The Original Drifters. [More on the story here.]
Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town was first recorded by Harry Reser and His Orchestra, with vocal by Tom Stacks (1934).
Tardigrade egg [via Bunkerville].
Raised in captivity, born to be free.
The Santa Sessions [via Mme. Jujujive}.
Brunch in a Jar Sippin’ Cream [h/t Gord S.].
Beware die Schlupfkappe [via Memo Of The Air].
Dan Koft calls Boogie Woogie Santa Claus square dance.
[Top image via Deep Dream Generator and the text prompt “Tardigrade with Christmas lights”.]
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Tacky Raccoons 