Frank Loesser’s plaintive hope
The late Eydie Gorme sings “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve.”
Archive of entries posted on December 2013
More bowling
I said to Mom at 1:30 this afternoon, “There are two more football games today!” She was decidedly unimpressed. Oregon appears to be equally unimpressed or unsentimental about Texas coach Mack Brown’s last game; the Ducks are up 23 – 7 over Brown’s Longhorns early in the third quarter of the Alamo Bowl in San …
Sudden comfort
Behold my new comforter! The old one was ratty and falling apart and didn’t match the blue of the walls to boot, so I hinted around that I’d like one for Christmas. My hints failed. Sears was having an after-Christmas sale, however, so I went down there and bought this for $40. It’s warm but …
Congress fails its bosses once again
The miserable overpaid political “leaders” of this country have failed the people that employ them once again. This time they have concluded that 1.3 million of their fellow Americans are not deserving of any financial help in staying afloat while they look for work. Specifically, they refused to extend unemployment benefits to those people beyond …
Most useful item this Christmas?
Hands down, these giant bags which we found very useful in wrapping big outsized presents.
Christmas books
Book given, to Mom: Doris Kearns Goodwin’s latest, “The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.” Also, a $25 Amazon Kindle Fire gift card to my sister. Books received: “Wild Tales,” by Graham Nash; Simon Winchester’s “The Men Who United the States,” and “The Passage of Power,” Volume IV …
A birth in a manger
Here is Jo Walton’s wonderful imagining of Joseph at the birth of Christ, asking the same question the Mormon Tabernacle Choir asks below:
Required Christmas post — Yes, Virginia
Merry Christmas to All! Note: This entry was originally published December 24, 2003. From the Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897 We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: I am 8 years …
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The secular
Twas the Night Before Christmas:
The sacred
Plácido Domingo & Luciano Pavarotti, “O Holy Night.”