CHRISTMAS really snuck up on me this year. Luckily I started on this collection of Holiday songs LAST Christmas! Thanks for stopping by to feast your ears on this tasty treat with songs by Ivan Julian, Wayne Toups, Patti Smith, Vampire Weekend, and Over The Rhine.
More traditional fare snuck in like Peggy Lee’s Don’t Forget To Feed The Reindeer, but is frankly is short supply. I had to make room for Duke Tomatoe, The Grateful Dead, A.W. Wooley & The Swingin' Doors, & Oscar McLollie and His Honey Jumpers.
My beloved Cub Koda pops up with a story about HIS pop, and power pop-star Dwight Twilly acquits himself nicely with Christmas Night. There’s something from Sia and Rainbow Kitten, as well.
I think I speak for the other two reprobates when I wish you and yours a wonderful holiday season—whichever holiday you celebrate.
Maybe you’ll be kind enough to share with us (in the comments) the most disappointing present you ever received?
A STINKY CHRISTMAS 2024:
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Socks
ReplyDeleteNot only did someone gave me a little christmas table decoration plant in a pot thingy once, but also came round again to visit me a day or two after christmas. I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. Kept it not to be too offensive and threw it away. It is so frustrating, I also had a painting by someone. He had a brain injury after an accident. Once or twice a year he'd come to visit, proud to see his painting, hanging on a wall. You just cannot throw that painting away. I had to wait till he died.
ReplyDeleteComing from Holland we celebrated Sinterklaas instead, but also with presents, at least if you had been a good boy, otherwise you'd end up being put inside a big bag and taken to Spain, a clear case of human trafficking but nobody cared about that in those days! I guess I probably received socks as well to my horror...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, thanks Stinky for this X-mas collection, great cover too!
Sinterklaas. He was the good guy with the long Gandalf white beard. He had a companion Krabbedoelie. He not only had that hessian sack but also a bundle of willow branches bound into a rod with which he would hit the naughty child. In later years he had much more, and friendlier companions.
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ReplyDeleteMy worst present was an all-in-one stereo system, from Montgomery Wards, with an 8-Track player instead of the cassette player I asked for.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could credit the artist of the FANTASTIC cover art. I found it on a flyer for a record show!
My little brother always got the cool racetrack when toys were getting really cool then and he was on a Tonka Truck commercial but it was my first friend connection that got all 8 siblings mainly younger into it met him in backyard sandbox but yeah a couple years in a row got boring toys and played with theirs maybe only clothes once
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ReplyDeleteI remembered you told us once that you grew up in a big family! Happy Holidays to you and the crew at downunderground.blogspot.com!
DeleteRichard, I'm hoping "Sinterklaas" was a typo, and that you meant to type: STINKerklaas.
ReplyDeleteThanks Stinky -- big fan of your Holiday comps. Fantastic cover! Everyone who goes to the Disney parks these days seems to wear various Disney apparel so I was planning on getting a Rat Fink shirt to wear when I went but of course never followed through. Next time!
ReplyDeleteMr. Dave: I"m with you--RAT FINK RULES!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid one of my aunts sent something to me that I never could identify. Neither could my parents. I remember it being pinkish, ceramic, and...that's all I remember. Abstract art?
ReplyDeleteWas your aunt a member of the Plaster Casters?
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