On the Eleventh Day of Christmas

I love Dean Martin around the holidays. I don't know if he is best accompanied by a martini or a hot toddy. Regardless, he sounds like he might enjoy a drink or two any time of the day. Especially when he's singing, "It's A Marshmallow World". I love the word "Pumpkinhead".

"It's A Marshmallow World"/Dean Martin and Beverly Sills



I am done with work now until 2010. Posting may be sporadic over the next week or so.

Meal of Links

TV through the holiday weekend? Why, here's your last-minute Christmas specials and marathons.

This is a dick move. LA restaurant removes LA Times food critic and publishes her picture.

New restaurant reality show prize will be your own chain. Chocolate Egg Nog parlors!

The Comcast-MBCU merger. I now have a headache.

The Big House is quite a unique treasure. Let's rent it out for a party.

No one is buying 3D TVs. Now get ready for the format wars to further confuse everyone.

Put away all that late activity by Senate. We're still fucked.

Catching up with Will Shortz. The most powerful man in puzzles.

The 10 Best Serious Eats recipes of the year. The chicken wings are definitely in my rotation. Did not try the burger recipe, because this Whitey's recipe is the one.

Exercise Yard

Was Myles Brand unbelievably the sane one at the NCAA? The Terrelle Pryor incident delivers another goofy ruling by the infractions committee. Suspensions, major ones at that, but not yet?

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