The US military has awarded an $80 million contract to a prominent Saudi financier who has been indicted by the US Justice Department for, among other things, financial shenanigans that cost the American taxpayers an estimated 1.7 billion dollars. As a purely coincidental aside: "Pharaon was also an investor in President George W. Bush's first ( Read more... )

Thank you, the_misha. I knew my favorite music geek would know. I was only off by a decade!

May I present Greg Lake's "I Believe In Father Christmas," one of my very favorites.

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This is an excerpt from a long-ago Christmas special I vaguely recall watching when I was not much older than Teh Kiddo. It starts out with one of those strained 70's variety-show setups ("Hi, I'm David Bowie, I just moved in next door") and segues into one of the loveliest and most utterly improbable duets imaginable. I pestered my mother into ( Read more... )

Just for Der Hubbinator, Jon "Don't Tell Me, I Want It To Be A Surprise" Anderson and a rather odd early-80's video for "3 Ships ( Read more... )

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Now if we can just get Metallica to cover that stupid smarmy song about the orphan who gives his shoes to the baby Jesus, we'll be all set.

Or how about Led Zeppelin doing "The Little Drummer Boy?" Heh.

I love the blissful expression on the guy's face when Dee Snyder appears out of nowhere and scares the crap out of his evil girlfriend.