I compiled the finishing touches on this year's Christmas CD, "The Whoville Mix". I think I've got some pretty good stuff on it. So, if you want to know I've been listening to lately, here it is:

Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town/Bruce Springsteen (gulp!)
Santa Lost a Ho/The Christmas Jug Band
Happy Xmas (War is Over)/The Alarm
Lonely Christmas Eve/Ben Folds
Let's Make a Baby King/New Grass Revival
Baby, It's Cold Outside/Carmen McRae and Sammy Davis,Jr.
Santa's Messin' With the Kid/Lynyrd Skynyrd
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer/Jack Johnson
Sock It To Me Santa/Bob Seger
Jingle Bells/Diana Krall
Must Be Santa/Brave Combo
Sleigh Ride/Los Straitjackets
Is Zat You, Santa Claus?/Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Toy Sack/Bob Rivers (Think "Love Shack")
Just Call Me Scrooge/Fishbone
Snoopy's Christmas/Smash Mouth
Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)/The Ramones
It's Christmas Time Again/Gridlock
Merry Merry Merry Frickin' Christmas/Frickin' A
Christmas Baby, Please Come Home/Jon Bon Jovi (double gulp!)
Fairytale of New York/The Pogues and Kristy MacColl
Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You/SR-71
Twelve Days of Xmas/Relient K

I like them all, but that Pogues lyric, where Kristy sings "You're a bum, You're a punk.", and Shane replies with "You're an old slut on junk." really puts you in the holiday spirit.

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Greyhounds are cool.

It seems like the mentions of Pearl Harbor Day are less and less as more of the vets of the Big One die off. And that's a damn shame.

Ricky Gervais has a podcast on Guardian Unlimited. Give it a listen.

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The Padres re-sign Trevor Hoffman. It might be Danny Baez coming back in a trade to solve the closer problem. Oops, I just found out Wickman signed up for one more year with the Indians. I gotta believe he told Shapiro that he was gonna give it a go for one more year and if the Tribe needed a longer commitment from someone else, he was cool with that.

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