Jaquandor has been offering Your Daily Dose of Christmas.
About.com’s Top 100 Christmas songs
The Bells of Christmas by Julie Andrews from a Firestone tire LP I still own.
Nat King Cole -The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
Snow from White Christmas (Bing Crosby, et al).
The Dream Isaiah Saw, plus the backstory of the song, the lyrics and another rendition.
Tamale Christmas by Joe King Carrasco
SamuraiFrog’s contributions Continue reading Advent/Christmas stories and songs
The day after Christmas, the Palace Theatre, a once-and-again-classic Albany movie theater from the 1930s with a fascinating past, was showing the 1964 movie Mary Poppins at 3 p.m., preceded by activities for children. We pretty much missed the activities, such as posing with a young woman dressed as Ms. Poppins, because I was still moving slowly from whatever bug was paining me.
My wife decided that we should go up to the balcony, which I thought was an intriguing idea; it’s been a very long time since I’ve seen a film from there. At some point, Ms. Poppins Continue reading MOVIE REVIEW: Mary Poppins
Merry Christmas! It’s a Sunday morning and I’ll be going to church, but our choir is not singing; we sang on Christmas Eve, but not Christmas Day, which is fine by me. Besides, Santa is probably tired from putting presents under the tree.
Somebody I once met was born on Christmas Day 1924, and that’s the late Rod Serling. My blogger buddy Gordon has been trying to institute his and Humphrey Bogart’s birthdays (b. 1899) as alternative holidays for “those who may be atheists, agnostics, or just plain tired of the usual thing.” Don’t know how that’s working out.
Speaking of Serling Continue reading Christmas 2011
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