Comments on: And speaking of Christmas music…

By: DNW

DNW — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 21:31:27 +0000

So this morning I kinda gave the barbells a desultory push and roll across the floor, and went to turn on the radio for something to distract myself while doing the reps.

The radio was tuned to NPR for some reason I cannot explain, and I heard some guy being interviewed who was talking about being Jewish and craving the Christmas music he didn’t have as a child.

Turned out it was Neil Diamond. I listened as he began doing some gawdawful composition of his own and eventually flipped it off, and gave up on the workout.

But I thought of Neo’s blog, and so I just just now Googled “Neil Diamond loves Christmas” and lo and behold this came up first.

ttp://www.npr.org/2016/12/17/505854554/neil-diamond-on-loving-christmas-music-as-a-jew

Very touching, Neil. But that song … ugh.

By: Steve57

Steve57 — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 08:41:43 +0000

Dawn patrol. Christmas day.

http://www.marinebuzz.com/marinebuzzuploads/ChristmasDayatAircraftCarrierUSSNimitz_10493/Christmas_Day_USS_Nimitz_1.jpg

OK, not at dawn. But Merry Christmas to all the ships at sea, and Happy Hanukah, too. Christmas at sea is when the shooter dresses up like Santa, and you get together to open your presents in the ready room with your friends. Whatever presents made it out to carrier on the COD.

It’s not really a bad deal. It’s a special Christmas.and it makes all the other Christmases for the rest of your life all the more special as you know what it’s like to spend it without your family. Same for Hanukah. It’s not PC that drives it. You’re just all in it together and that just makes you close.

By: Steve57

Steve57 — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 08:24:25 +0000

...It sounded like someone’s drunken uncle...

Wait! You've heard me sing Christmas hymns?

By: Steve57

Steve57 — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 08:18:15 +0000

Here, of course, is what Christmas should sound like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qEVkFvMI5U

Luciano Pavarotti Trisha Yearwood Adeste Fideles

By: Steve57

Steve57 — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 08:12:08 +0000

Let me compound your misery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PITCmngiMfA

The Jackson 5 I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus (with lyrics)

You’re welcome, neo. It’s just what I do.

By: Uffdaphil

Uffdaphil — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 06:30:41 +0000

I kiss Dylan’s feet, but I would leave the room where he was mangling “Twas the Night before Christmas.”Still it’s good to see even the greatest have lapses in judgement.

By: parker

parker — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 05:20:50 +0000

“These visions of Johanna conquer my mind.” Next to It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry; my favorite Dylan song.

Bob’s absence from the Nobel ceremony warms my heart.

By: parker

parker — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 05:05:57 +0000

mollyNH,

Too bad we have no polar bears and penguins in Iowa, and they probably taste nasty; otherwise I would hunt them just as if they were venison for the freezer or jerky for the dryer.

By: mollyNH

mollyNH — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 03:23:12 +0000

Bob Dylan, sounds like Willie Nelson, lol
Well done Carols are so majestic & the Mormon Channel BYU T V Round a movie called the First Silent Night about the remarkable priest Josef Mohr who wrote the poem that was later set to music & became the Carol. It’s a Carol that is more recent compared to some of the traditional music.

By: mollyNH

mollyNH — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 03:13:06 +0000

I am so sick of seeing polar bears & penguins. They are on everything, It’s disgusting. When I was growing up we had wrapping paper with the 3 kings, children in choir attire, single lit candles, occasionally Santa. Now there is never paper with a hint of religiosity, if you want paper like that you have to hunt online at a religious bookstore etc. & is much more expensive then stuff at CVS or Walmart, how pathetic is that but I will not buy. polar bears, they act like this is an animal worshipping society. I guess to Peta it is. Lol
Happy Christmas / Chanukah to all both holidays with religious significance, thank you God !