Day: December 25, 2009
Christmas various
- Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
- xkcd on the physics of Christmas. (For the record, I’m pretty sure Heisenberg celebrated the holiday.)
- What’s on the White House Christmas tree? (As if Glenn Beck didn’t have enough to ineptly rant and spume about over the holidays. [via]
- 15 Toys Not to Buy Your Kids This Christmas [via]
- I don’t know about you, but with the first part of The End of Time airing in the UK this weekend, it looks like I will be spending Christmas with a Dalek.
- I’m sure you’ve heard that Bob Dylan has a new Christmas album out. You may even have heard how awful it is. (And believe me, it is awful.) But now you can see for yourself. This may be the most wonderfully, horrible strange cover of “Must Be Santa” ever.
- And finally, Patton Oswalt on what may be my least favorite Christmas song ever.
Happy holidays!
Random 10 12/25
Last week. This week:
- “Dry the Rain” by the Beta Band
This is the definition of my life - “The Time Warp” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, guessed by Kim
Madness takes its toll - “You Can Never Hold Back Spring” by Tom Waits
You can be sure that I will never stop believing - “Haunted” by Poe
And these shadows keep on changing - “Jake Summers” by Fight Like Apes
Those geese were stupefied - “The Legionnaire’s Lament” by the Decemberists
I am on reprieve, lacking my joie de vivre - “Baltimore” by the Tamlins
Hard times in the city, in a hard town by the sea - “Across the Universe” by the Beatles, guessed by Kim
They slither while they pass - “Jailhouse Rock” by Elvis Presley, guessed by Kim
Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone - “Build That Wall” by Aimee Mann
She’s feeling nostalgic and feeling that fall
Good luck!