My friend Franz mentioned this yesterday, so this one is for him.

- Chris

I saw this come up on a bunch of my feeds but stupidly didn’t click on it and watch it until today… this is great!

- Chris

…and I heard this year was gonna be trouble. If you thought last year was bad this year’s supposed to be double!

…and the bells are ringing out for Christmastime.

- Chris

So this is from Christmas Special or another, and as you can see Frank and Dean-o are absolutely sloshed, slurring their way through certain parts of the lyrics. I’d only ever heard this song on the Rat Pack Christmas Album, and even then I was like “Are these guys hammered or what?” Now that I’ve seen the video, I’m able to forego the “or what”. Still, pretty awesome.

- Chris

Jackson Browne’s original version of this song is wonderful, but I’m currently listening to this version, from The McGarrigle Christmas Hour, sung by Martha Wainwright and Lily Franken and it’s almost making me tear-up, so you get this one.

Incidentally, The McGarrigle Christmas Hour disc is a really great album from start-to-finish. If you’re looking to add something new to your Holiday rotation I recommend it a great deal.

- Christopher

It’s the second day and I’m already cheating, but I promise it’s for a very good cause. If you head over to Pee Wee Herman’s website at http://peewee.com, you can watch the awesome/bonkers Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special, streaming for free! Just click on the ‘gift’ at the bottom of the screen.

If you’ve never seen this before: You Must. It’s awesome. It has Oprah, and Charo, and the world’s most insane musical number by Grace Jones. It is the highest of high-camp. Recommended!

- Christopher

I thought I’d take it on myself to provide to you some of my favourite Christmas Songs. While, musically, I tend to prefer the album version of this one, there’s no getting around how absolutely hilarious this AbFab appearance is.

- Chris

So yesterday Andrew and I had a really great day. We met Santa. I asked for a digital SLR camera. Santa said he would also like one. Then we saw Christmas Tress get lit-up, and caught a surprisingly-full 9pm showing of Where The Wild Things Are. It’s a good, melancholy movie. I recommend it.

Then we spent today with our niece and nephew. That was pretty great too. (Photos on FB)

All in all a very good weekend. Back to the grind tomorrow.

- Chris