December will be magic again

Oh, Reuters! Can you help me decide if I should bother with my annual fun of looking at the UK pop charts and obsessing as to what will be the Christmas Number One Single?

As the festive season approaches, the best-selling Christmas songs of the past will probably have a yuletide chart encore. But missing from the holiday revelry will be much in the way of new Christmas-themed releases from mainstream pop acts.

Some of the blame rests with the enormously popular TV talent show "The X Factor," which for the fourth consecutive year will release its winner's debut single right before Christmas, effectively rendering the once-pitched battle for the season's No. 1 a one-horse race.

The "X Factor" victor's single is due after the show's December 13 finale. The strongest challenger is expected to be "Once Upon a Christmas Song," a charity tune by transsexual singer Geraldine, a.k.a. comedian Peter Kay.

Hmmm.

Oh YouTube! Can we have a listen to that "Once Upon a Christmas Song" song?



Oh dear.

Well, I'll keep an eye on it then.

Made up word of the day

PROCRUSTINATE: To obsessively waste precisely the same amount of time
every day.

Things I find

I was unaware that Sixpence None the Richer did a cover of "Don't Dream it's Over."

It sounds exactly the way I thought it would!

Great Moments in Fashion

"Teen-age girls in blue jeans, wearing the beret, horn rimmed glasses and goatee affected by Dizzy Gillespie, "bebop" music king, stand to have his autograph."


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Great moments in philately

From the New York Times interview with Karl Rove:

Are you going to send him [Obama] a little note congratulating him?

I already have. I sent it to his office. I sent him a handwritten note with funny stamps on the outside.

What kind of funny stamps?

Stamps.

Heading into the holidays

I post this photo again, just because everyone loves it.




I am aware of all internet traditions!

Offered without comment.

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