I’ve been diligently avoiding the unavoidable visual and auditory warnings of the impending Yule since mid-October. But in the second half of December I’m ready to embrace “The Christmas Station” and decorations and such.
However, I always preferred the offbeat things, like Weird Al’s “Christmas at Ground Zero [1]”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsvZHHLQ8-c[/youtube]
and Lehrer’s “Christmas Carol [2]“.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSlpCBek1_M[/youtube]
Try the South Park Hanukkah Song [3] klezmer quintet, or the Santa and Jesus duet [4] from the same episode.
Here are some recent takes:
Christmas in Japan:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmCrIZeob4w[/youtube]
And How the nativity would have gone, had it been in a chatroom [5].
What are your favorite offbeat holiday expressions?
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