As a bass player who has played Christmas music in a band, Christmas Wrapping gets my vote as the best contemporary Christmas tune. Hands down.

Last Christmas was the pinnacle of the “I’m sad because you dumped me” Christmas tune. And that’s not saying much

It has to do with copyright laws. If you play copyrighted music, then you have to pay the artist. Which is why you’ll hear generic music sold for the purpose of multi-plays for on hold. Yes, we got ratted out on this at work when replaced a really boring CD with a Dave Brubreck CD for our phone system on hold music.

If you have ever done any sort of business with AT&T and had to do conference call with them, they have the most generic happy hold music on the planet. One of my co-workers is a guitar player and jokingly learned it as a gag. We’ve had so many conferences with them over the past two years on a project, we can all…

Did she bring back Stanley Kubrick to set design the Shining as a Christmas scene?

Except when sung by Billy Idol. Then its hysterical.

My sister and I had the Holiday Spotify channel on yesterday as background music while we were baking and we both came to the conclusion that a predominance of modern Christmas pop tunes are about being a sad-ass lonely person during the holiday season. I blame George Michael for this.

Its like they took the long ass format of a typical Springsteen concert and applied it to a Christmas song. Great if you’re a fan—for the rest of us humans, its pretty much torture.

Firstly, I find it hysterical that someone did a FOIA request for the cafeteria emails, though it doesn’t surprise me. And having worked in the public sector for almost 2 decades, I can attest that eating at any government contracted food service is going to be marginally better than starvation on any given day. They…

This really is a no contest for me. Its the Grinch—Boris Karloff and Dr. Suess, who were two of my favorites even back in the deep, dark past of my childhood. Plus a true meaning of the holiday message with singing Whos!

Stuffing and sweet potatoes. End of discussion

My sister is 10 years older than me and was part of the “hippie” generation. Every time she tries to tell me how great her generation is and how much they did for the Gen Xers, I remind her of Manson and Alamont. It pretty much shuts down the conversation quickly.

I have a friend who like myself who is a vegetarian. Her standard spiel when people go into to panic mode about dinner, is to say “But not in a Morrissey sort of way”. It makes the point quickly.

Just heard that Malcolm Young passed. I had a friend in college who was a huge AC/DC fan, who passed recently as well. I’ll have to dig out some AC/DC vinyl and listen to it for both of them.

I agree with Clockwork Orange. I saw the movie before reading the book, and agree that its better. And after reading Gone With the Wind, its not my favorite movie, but its a sight better than Margaret Mitchell’s overblown prose.

IC was OK, but damn IC lite tasted like dishwater.

Schlitz and Shaeffer were the go to beers of my youth, along with the long gone Ballentine. Shaeffer also had the best jingle, which is permanently stored in my collective memory

I once saw someone at a pub that has over 99 beers available, ask for a Bud lite and a glass of ice. He slowly poured the beer over ice. Because you know, a watered down beer was already too strong for them. I was fascinated, but rather appalled.

I always saw them as sort of a Knights Templar type order.

What? No love of the Church of the SubGenius?