I love Joan Osborne. It's a guilty pleasure. Today's songs are from her Christmas album, "Christmas Means Love", which came out in 2007. The first, "Children Go Where I Send Thee", is a pretty faithful version of the traditional spiritual. The second is that most creepy of traditional carols, "The Cherry Tree Carol", aka the song wherein Joseph ( Read more... )

We were supposed to get snow last night. I was secretly hoping for enough accumulation to make them shut down the city so I could spend the day at home in my pajamas, drinking coffee and pretending to write. Of course it didn't snow at all. So instead I'm at work, in my Mickey Mouse t-shirt*, drinking coffee and pretending to write. At least I ( Read more... )