Before the holiday season slips away from us, one more Christmas question:
What’s your favorite Christmas music album?
Mine is, hands down, no question, John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon Canada] [Amazon U.K.]. I’ve only seen the TV special that spawned it a few times, and not since I was a kid, because it’s not available on DVD. But I listen to the album constantly during the holidays (and sometimes in the off-season, too), because it is crammed with not only the usual Muppet madness — Miss Piggy directing a rendition of “Christmas Is Coming” is outright chaos — but also some of the loveliest nontraditional holiday songs I’ve ever heard: “A Baby Just Like You” never fails to make me cry.
You?
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there are twelve days of christmas — and i resent that everyone wants to dump any mention of it the day after… of course, i also don’t pay any attention to it, until the first weekend in december, so it’s not over exposed for me by december 26….
Bit late on the uptake there, huh Bronxbee? (I kid)
In my world, I hear nothing about these 12 days of Christmas you mention so matter-of-factly.. Not a single person around me, even the religious ones, make any mention of it. I just know that as a bad song, and some religious thing about the time leading up to some dudes in wizard robes bringing gifts to baby jeebus. (I kid again. sort of)
To each his own, of course. If you’re not sick of all of it, then, by golly, go for it! Have 12 more days of it. Heck, it”s probably a lot better(more personal?) then the media saturated nonsense of the days leading up to the 25th.