{"id":4408,"date":"2008-12-14T17:53:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T21:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2012-09-28T20:16:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T00:16:05","slug":"holiday-spirity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/4408\/holiday-spirity\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Spirity (update: now with video!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Pandora Internet Radio<\/a> we’ve had mucho Christmas music around here the past few days. If you look for “Holiday” in their genre stations, they offer choices of Christmas blues, jazz, rock, classical, folk, Motown, R&B\/pop, swingin’, country and peaceful. We’ve mostly stuck with the folk option, but today created a station that will hopefully give us a nice mix of rousing and silly standards along with jazzy and swingin’ as we were needing some of the “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Frosty the Snowman” variety. But after a few gallopin’ dances around the apartment to the sounds of jingle belly sleighs we’ve been stuck with soggy popcorn songs. Adding more variety as I write…<\/p>\n

I don’t recollect what song we were listening to when I watched the video of Bush dodging shoes in Iraq<\/a>. Man has some good reflexes! As an individual who was always the last one standing in the dodge ball games of childhood, I was kinda impressed with his skill.<\/p>\n

Though I can’t say it was the best Christmas present ever as it’s not as if I endorse violence, I did go back and watch the video again while Burl Ives was singing “We are Santa’s Elves!”<\/p>\n

Sirens are singing down the street outside. People gettin’ in the holiday spirit the outgoing grand poobah seems to inspire.<\/p>\n

Update: We wanted to share the experience of listening to “We are Santa’s Elves” while watching Bush dodge shoes. So H.o.p. and I recreated it for you.<\/p>\n

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So pixelated. So wobbly. We will live with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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