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Sunday, December 25, 2011
John Henry Faulk's 'The Christmas story'
I'm told this is an annual staple on NPR. You can listen to it via the link above.
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The 12 gays of Christmas
Some background from a commenter on YouTube:
These are the male dancers from the Radio City Christmas Spectacular (I used to work there). This is a spoof on the 12 days of Christmas performance that the Rockettes perform in the Christmas Show. Every year all the performers put on a variety christmas show and the guys put this together and it was hilarious! I watch it every year and they really did do a fabulous job with it. If you've ever seen the show, their moves are EXACTLY the way the girls perform it in the show.Read the rest of this post...
Please contribute to AMERICAblog this holiday season (if you can)
If the spirit moves you, we'd welcome your donation to help us keep AMERICAblog running in the new year.
As I've mentioned before, this is my full time job, and has been for years. With the advent of the economic crisis, advertising (our main source of revenue) took a major hit - we're making (I'm making) 25% of what we were before the crisis. I'm surviving, as is the blog, but if you like the work we do, and if you can, please support us now and in the coming year.
I really believe that the work of independent progressive activists has been critical in not just keeping the Republicans at bay, but also in forcing the Democrats to keep their promises. No, the Democrats haven't done enough, but what they have done is due in large part to the pressure the Netroots, and you, have put on them.
The Democratic Party has never really embraced the Netroots as they should have, and they certainly haven't given us the kind of financial support they should. We built, with little help from the powers that be, our own left-wing noise machine to rival Fox and Limbaugh. But the only way we can keep it going, all of us, all of our favorite blogs, is by the support of readers like you.
So if you can, please consider donating to this blog, but also to all the blogs you follow. In the spirit of Mitt Romney, please keep in mind that blogs are people :)
Thanks so much, from me, Joe, Chris, Gaius, Myrddin (or however he spells his name), and the rest of the gang at AMERICAblog and AMERICAblog Gay. Hope you have a nice holiday.
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As I've mentioned before, this is my full time job, and has been for years. With the advent of the economic crisis, advertising (our main source of revenue) took a major hit - we're making (I'm making) 25% of what we were before the crisis. I'm surviving, as is the blog, but if you like the work we do, and if you can, please support us now and in the coming year.
I really believe that the work of independent progressive activists has been critical in not just keeping the Republicans at bay, but also in forcing the Democrats to keep their promises. No, the Democrats haven't done enough, but what they have done is due in large part to the pressure the Netroots, and you, have put on them.
The Democratic Party has never really embraced the Netroots as they should have, and they certainly haven't given us the kind of financial support they should. We built, with little help from the powers that be, our own left-wing noise machine to rival Fox and Limbaugh. But the only way we can keep it going, all of us, all of our favorite blogs, is by the support of readers like you.
So if you can, please consider donating to this blog, but also to all the blogs you follow. In the spirit of Mitt Romney, please keep in mind that blogs are people :)
Thanks so much, from me, Joe, Chris, Gaius, Myrddin (or however he spells his name), and the rest of the gang at AMERICAblog and AMERICAblog Gay. Hope you have a nice holiday.
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David Sedaris: Six to eight black men (a hysterical very Dutch Christmas)
I think Chris first turned me on to this David Sedaris clip. It's his explanation of Christmas in Holland, and how their local Christmas story is a tad different from our own. It's one of the funniest, laugh out loud (then cry out loud) things I've ever heard in my life. You have to listen to the entire reading, done by Sedaris himself, over the three clips.
I remember when I was doing my junior year abroad in France in 1983-84, and as part of my language study we had to get up in front of the class (of foreigners, mostly Europeans, a few Japanese and Latin Americans) and talk about our local Christmas customs. Everyone gave very nice stories of the traditional foods they ate, or how the Swedes sing about Santa Lucia while holding candles in the middle of December - sweet European things like that. I, on the other hand, got up and explained, in my still somewhat broken French, the story of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, the toy-making elves who live in the North Pole, and how every Christmas eve Santa comes down the chimney to deliver gifts to all the good boys and girls (the bad ones get coal), then twinkles his nose to fly back up the chimney, and finally, as he flies away in his eight-reindeer-driven sleigh yells "Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas!"
They thought I was completely batty. At first no one believed me that this was the actual American Christmas mythology.
I had no idea Christmas customs - the story of Santa Claus specifically - was so different in Europe. I honestly thought we got much of our story from them.
Not so much.
Listen to the Sedaris story below, it's a joy.
Read the rest of this post...
I remember when I was doing my junior year abroad in France in 1983-84, and as part of my language study we had to get up in front of the class (of foreigners, mostly Europeans, a few Japanese and Latin Americans) and talk about our local Christmas customs. Everyone gave very nice stories of the traditional foods they ate, or how the Swedes sing about Santa Lucia while holding candles in the middle of December - sweet European things like that. I, on the other hand, got up and explained, in my still somewhat broken French, the story of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, the toy-making elves who live in the North Pole, and how every Christmas eve Santa comes down the chimney to deliver gifts to all the good boys and girls (the bad ones get coal), then twinkles his nose to fly back up the chimney, and finally, as he flies away in his eight-reindeer-driven sleigh yells "Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas!"
They thought I was completely batty. At first no one believed me that this was the actual American Christmas mythology.
I had no idea Christmas customs - the story of Santa Claus specifically - was so different in Europe. I honestly thought we got much of our story from them.
Not so much.
Listen to the Sedaris story below, it's a joy.
Read the rest of this post...
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