Christmas Flotsam and Jetsam

Christmastime miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

What has ruined Christmas music more for you? Radio stations that start playing Christmas songs 24/7 since Thanksgiving or Yoko Ono's back-up "singing" on John Lennon's Happy Christmas (War is Over)... A very touching Christmas Bloom County... Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Pud Galvin was born Christmas 1856. He was nicknamed Pud because he made hitters look like "pudding" at the plate. Not because he was a dick... Dear Jack Edwards - we wish you a merry Christmas too... History factoid: The official signal for the scramble to evacuate the US Embassy in Saigon 40-years ago was the playing of Bing Crosby's White Christmas... They were trying to kill each other again the next day...

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- I could never get away with this look

- Cool - Bill Belichick gives the Patriots two days off after win in San Diego. I think he even smiled when he did it!

- Poignant - Guy Lafleur kneels before the departed Jean Beliveau

- Yesterday was the 34th anniversary of Berke Breathed's awesome Bloom County first appearing in print. Here was the first strip.

- Is it me or is pretty much every picture of Joe Biden just a caption contest waiting to happen?

- (Still) Awesome - Eddie Vedder and Jeanne Tripplehorn (as Julie Andrews) sing Rolling Stones Shattered