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The Monarch & Dr. Girlfriend’s "Fairytale Of New York." The annual Venture Bros. Christmas song. (Previously)
posted on Dec 26, 2007 - View this thread

77 year-old Robert Schoff spent Christmas Eve wedged upside down in the opening of his septic tank. And how was your Christmas?
posted on Dec 26, 2007 - View this thread

"In the Late December" (MP3 link), by Greg van Eekhout, is a Nebula award-nominated story about Santa Claus and the end of the universe, and is Escape Pod #138. (By the way, this is a very dark story -- there's no sex or violence but this probably isn't suitable for kids, where "kids" is defined as a stereotypical aggregate of child-like characteristics. Yours may be different.)
posted on Dec 25, 2007 - View this thread

Audio of Dylan Thomas reading his poem "A Child's Christmas in Wales". (real media and mp3)
posted on Dec 25, 2007 - View this thread

Time to kill while waiting for Santa to arrive/dinner to digest/family to leave? Well, here's a Very Special Holiday Episode fpp just for you. God bless us, every one.
posted on Dec 24, 2007 - View this thread

Peace on Earth - 1939 Disney animation directed by Hugh Harman. And Goodwill to Men, a 1955 remake by Hanna-Barbera.
posted on Dec 24, 2007 - View this thread

What to my wondering eyes should appear but the suggestion that "A Visit From St. Nicholas," the classic poem which has defined the American Santa Claus, from red suit and big belly to reindeer and chimney-delivery method, was written not by classics professor Clement Clarke Moore but by poet and military man Henry Livingston. Though some think the authorship controversy is sugarplum vision of Livingston's descendents, other scholars the claim: literary 'detective' Donald Foster agrees (though his sleuthing record is not unblemished). Leading historian of Christmas Stephen Nissenbaum, says that either way, St. Nick is the product of the same social world, that of the wealthy white elite in the New York of the early Republic. If the claim is true, then in the convoluted history of the manuscript we've gotten some reindeer names wrong.
posted on Dec 24, 2007 - View this thread

Santa's Ghetto: Stirring art from behind the Jerusalem Wall.
posted on Dec 24, 2007 - View this thread

Enjoy a heaping helping of old time radio with classic Christmas specials from The Jack Benny Show.
posted on Dec 23, 2007 - View this thread

Electric Christmas Trees.
posted on Dec 23, 2007 - View this thread

Secret lives: Santa Claus Steady Mobbin' - I fear this will lead to no good.
posted on Dec 22, 2007 - View this thread

You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch l The Grinch Song lyrics. l How the Grinch Stole Christmas documentary: a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of this perennial favorite. Featuring never-before-seen animation tests and interviews with director Chuck Jones, Audrey Geisel (Dr. Seuss' widow), composer Albert Hague, vocalist Thurl Ravenscroft, and Seuss aficionados Tim Burton & Danny Elfman, this 1994 special from cable channel TNT contains a sleigh-load of information for Grinch fans.
posted on Dec 22, 2007 - View this thread

Invaders from the Ice World is a Silver Age DC Comics story (available here as a PDF in its entirety) about the time living Snowmen who shoot lasers from their eyes came to attack the Earth. Merry Christmas!! (found via I'm Learning To Share)
posted on Dec 21, 2007 - View this thread

Fairytale of New York... censored! No, not now... Shane will make 50 this Christmas... Sadly not Kirsty.
posted on Dec 21, 2007 - View this thread

Dingle Bells - Friday Festive Fun. Not very entertaining without speakers.
posted on Dec 21, 2007 - View this thread

Vintage Soviet-era Christmas Cards. They're certainly cheerful! (via)
posted on Dec 20, 2007 - View this thread

It has now been several years since Jacquie Lawson, an English artist living in the picturesque village of Lurgashall in Southern England, created an animated Christmas card in 2000. The e-card, featuring her dog, Chudleigh, her cats, and her 15th-century cottage, was sent to a few friends for their amusement. Those friends sent the e-card to others, and within weeks Jacquie was inundated with requests from all over the world to design more e-cards.
posted on Dec 20, 2007 - View this thread

The War on Saturnalia.
posted on Dec 19, 2007 - View this thread

tacky christmas yards dot com is exactly what it sounds like. [via]
posted on Dec 18, 2007 - View this thread

An FPP for your holiday listening pleasure. Ha ha ha.
posted on Dec 18, 2007 - View this thread

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fish-Men. Brought to you by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
posted on Dec 17, 2007 - View this thread

"It serves 125, takes eight hours to cook and is stuffed with 12 different birds..." [via Cynical-C]
posted on Dec 17, 2007 - View this thread

30 Years of LucasFilm Christmas Cards (I triple-dog dare ya!)
posted on Dec 15, 2007 - View this thread

Merry Christmas, Mefites! Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, you might enjoy this fun bit of flash goodness.
posted on Dec 13, 2007 - View this thread

Vintage Christmas Wax The Edison Concert band never sounded so good.
posted on Dec 13, 2007 - View this thread

Straight No Chaser (Indiana University men's acapella group) performs this hilarious rendition of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." Want to perform it with your own acapella chorus? You're in luck. The sheet music is available as an inexpensive digital download.
posted on Dec 12, 2007 - View this thread

Jean Shepherd was one of the greatest storytellers ever to be heard on radio. The Jean Shepherd Project collects recordings of these historic broadcasts, converts them to mp3 files and makes them available to be revisited by his longtime fans and by those who wish to discover what great American storytelling is all about.
posted on Dec 11, 2007 - View this thread

The Bloody Olive - a 10 minute film noir in the spirit of the season. An interview about the film with director Vincent Bal.
posted on Dec 6, 2007 - View this thread

Santastic I, II, and now III, holiday mash-ups, alternate treatments and bootleg remixes.
Previously
posted on Dec 5, 2007 - View this thread

"What do you think of that, Santa?" Yet another case of student 'art projects' out of control . . . other incredible violations of mall-Santa lap etiquette:1, 2, 3, and no doubt the most flagrant example, 4. Be careful out there.
posted on Dec 3, 2007 - View this thread

It is not Christmas without tamales.
posted on Nov 29, 2007 - View this thread

IS IT CHRISTMAS?
posted on Nov 27, 2007 - View this thread

Lucky Soul's 'Lips Are Unhappy' isn't the likliest of contenders for the UK's coveted Christmas number one, but this is the track (from a shortlist) selected by listeners of Last.fm to receive Last.fm's backing. Profits go to charity, as is the norm for Xmas No. 1 entries.
posted on Nov 26, 2007 - View this thread

I pledge to buy handmade this holiday season, and request that others do the same for me. Why? Better gifting experience, better ethics, better for the environment.
posted on Nov 23, 2007 - View this thread

Park your carcass in front of the TV for the next six weeks. Here is the upcoming broadcast schedule for every show that has even the tiniest connection to The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.
posted on Nov 21, 2007 - View this thread

The 25 Most Baffling Toys From Around the World
posted on Nov 18, 2007 - View this thread

Rare Exports, Inc. They deliver the impeccable, well-mannered, and extremely rare original Finnish Father Christmases to nearly 150 countries every Christmas. Exclusively. [YouTube, NSFW.]
posted on Nov 15, 2007 - View this thread

Ho Ho Ho? Hellz No Fat Man!
posted on Nov 15, 2007 - View this thread

What better way to evoke the Christmas spirit than with the picture of a vampiric serial killer?
posted on Nov 9, 2007 - View this thread

"A paper around her neck said she was Ida, but Ida said nothing at all." So tells the story of the saddest, unluckiest girl that ever lived.
posted on Sep 6, 2007 - View this thread

Wishbook Web. Christmas catalogs scanned in their entirety from the 1944 Wards Catalog (152 pages) to the 1985 Sears Catalog (648 pages!). The site looks like it was built circa '97, but the scans are quite interesting. via - Similar posts to this one: 1, 2.
posted on Aug 27, 2007 - View this thread

Bob Dylan recites "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" Dylan reads the Christmas classic from his radio show.
posted on Feb 15, 2007 - View this thread

Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas in six parts on Youtube. It may be well into January, but let this classic 1970's Muppet Christmas special cheer you. For the cynics who prefer to stay out in the January cold, here's a pretty cutting breakdown of same.
posted on Jan 7, 2007 - View this thread

Do They Know It's Christmas? (MP3) The 1984 plea for Ethiopian famine aid, as performed by the cast of The Venture Bros. Also, Monarch & Dr. Girlfriend cover David Bowie and Bing Crosby(MP3).
posted on Dec 29, 2006 - View this thread

So This Is (a Conservative) Christmas via the nobody'd-mistake-him-for-a-liberal Glenn Beck. Breaking news: Groups Turn Profit Defending Christmas. And the almost-50-years-young rebuttal to anyone who believes that the spiritual holiday of Christmas is cheapened by commercial entities that do NOT specifically invoke the name: Stan Freberg's Green Chri$tma$
posted on Dec 26, 2006 - View this thread

Best wishes for a Christmas of peace and joy and a New Year of triumph over terrorism! from the U.S. Citizens Committee to Keep and Bear Arms, a.k.a. "the Common Sense Gun Lobby".

"If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in His name, He'd never stop throwing up." -- Woody Allen (Hannah And Her Sisters, 1986)
posted on Dec 25, 2006 - View this thread

Christmas reading from Apollo 8. This is what they saw.
posted on Dec 25, 2006 - View this thread

Merry Christmas, Metafilter! In the spirit of the holiday, my gift for the Radiohead fans among you is this entire Radiohead concert (Google Vid), a non-bootleg produced for MTV originally recording from the OK Computer tour back in 1997. For the non-Radiohead fans, my gift is that I forgive you your imperfections. And finally, for those who don't celebrate Christmas, my gift is that I made you a cookie... but then I eated it.
posted on Dec 24, 2006 - View this thread

Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas - a Harvey Danger song for all those who keep the wheels turning. (YouTube alert)
posted on Dec 24, 2006 - View this thread