New Year’s Eve 2017
Zooey Deschanel & Joseph Gordon-Levitt sing “What Are You Doing New Years Eve?”
Archive of entries posted on December 2017
There are cronies and then there are crooks
But never fear, they’re all employable in the Trump Administration. EPA Director Scott Pruitt (spit!) has hired a buddy of his who once made him three mortgage loans: one for $81,000, another for $359,000, and a third for $533,000. The loans were used to buy a house in a tony section of Tulsa despite Pruitt’s …
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Packages delayed
The network news told us last week or the week before that the USPS, FedEx and UPS were all “experiencing delays” with all the goods trying to get moved through the transportation system. I’m here to attest. Mom ordered some gifts via phone from Country Store Catalog on December 6. The goods were picked up/received …
A Child was born
But how did the father feel about it? I’m reposting this as I do every year. Jo Walton is a poet, a science fiction author and an essayist. She wrote this story in 2004 about a man named Joseph. It’s wonderfully imaginative, and I’ve loved it since the day I read it years ago. Enjoy!
Christmas Day 2017
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs “Joy to the World” from “The Wonder of Christmas” album performed at Temple Square in Salt Lake City in 2006. “
Christmas Eve and all is wrapped
So without further ado, we’ll listen as Michele Obama reads “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” Clement Clark Moore’s wonderful 1823 poem. Moore didn’t acknowledge his authorship until he published a book of poems in 1844. There’s apparently an ongoing dispute among some literati and academics as to whether he was the actual author. He was …
There’s snow on the Big Island mountains
Barbra Streisand dreams of a “White Christmas” from her 1967 “A Christmas Album.” AllMusic.com gave the album 4 1/2 of 5 stars and said this: “Streisand gave her singing just enough personality without getting in the way of the familiar songs. They were trying to make a timeless classic, and that’s what they achieved.” I …
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Shovel, shovel, shovel
Here is Ella Fitzgerald singing “Let It Snow” from “Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas,” first released in 1960 but remastered and with artwork modified several times since.
Pops goes Christmas
Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops play a medley of “Here We Come A-Caroling/O Tannenbaum/I Saw Three Ships” from a 1972 performance with choir. The Pops have surely been able to attract charismatic conductors, haven’t they? From Fiedler (fifty years!) to John Williams (fourteen years) to Keith Lockhart (1995 to present), they’ve been led by …
Four days away
Perry Como sings “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” as the TV set is put together behind him on the Kraft Music Hall TV program. It’s corny but effective.