Return to the Canon of Christmas Songs

[beamjockey]

Today in XKCD #988, Randall Munroe illustrates the point I was making in "Canon of Christmas Songs: Well Gone Dry?" back in 2000

Comments

[neowolf2]

Clearly, we need to invent new holidays. Songs will follow.

[mmcirvin]

"This Is Halloween" from The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) seems to have had some staying power.

(And, of course, some of the songs in that film are really Christmas songs, but they don't really work out of context; the culture seems to have retroactively decided that it's a Halloween movie, something that was not clear when it was first released.)

[mmcirvin]

...which brings up again my thesis that (1) Halloween is gradually expanding in cultural importance and (2) I am all for this.

[polyfrog]

What's This? would work out of context, I think.

[beamjockey]

I have an idea for a new holiday. Perhaps I will blog about it one of these days. I'd like to hold it on 8 June.

[neowolf2]

You're celebrating my wife's birthday?