Failed the full Advent calendar experience, but hey, there's still 2 weeks to Christmas! Here are a couple of songs to get you in a wintry mood, even if it hasn't been cold where you are.

A little Simon & Garfunkel:

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And a gender-switched take on a problematic classic:

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Cross-posted at http://electricland.dreamwidth.org/709574.html.
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Admittedly, I don't know exactly how it works. But still. I can see it putting together the Halloween mix and The Crow and even Roadkill. But Loreena McKennit and Ashley MacIsaac and the Cowboy Junkies? Kirsty MacColl? HOW DOES IT KNOW?
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With many thanks to Cover Lay Down, please listen to this amazing rendition of Warren Zevon's "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" by Naomi Bedford. Phenomenal. I will be checking out the rest of the album; if you liked Nick Cave's Murder Ballads, I suspect you should do likewise.

Listen here.In unrelated news, Mary Robinette Kowal has issued ( Read more... )

My dad called this morning to say M is doing better. Boyfriend has heard the awful news and was great, likewise her parents. So that's good ( Read more... )

I only met Sam 3 or 4 times. The last time I saw him, M had brought him over for a play date. We took the dogs to the off-leash area on the beach, where they garnered many admiring looks as a fine handsome pair of Airedales should. He'd grown taller than Blue by then, much to M's surprise. He was bouncy and friendly and full of energy - a typical ( Read more... )

My uncle writes:

Your doggies are sweet...When Robin brought them over this morning, she warned me that they were (surprise!) wet, so I cleverly closed the bedroom doors to protect the beds, and went to the computer ( Read more... )

I just caught up on the Flashpoint season finale. Jen and I reckon Nicholas Campbell, Paul Gross (to whom Jen refers to as "Men With Brooms Guy" for reasons that are obscure to me) and Dylan Neal have a future as patriarch and warring brothers on some all-Canadian family drama one day. Too lazy to embed, but click those links and tell me we're ( Read more... )

We left the dogs at home for a couple of hours, which in most households is perfectly fine, but came back to find Tilde had made her way upstairs and expressed her disapproval in rather biological terms. Sigh.

Blue didn't eat anything he shouldn't though!

Cross-posted at http://electricland.dreamwidth.org/707680.html.
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I ate way too much yesterday but had a fine time with both sides of the family. (Eggs Benedict/Florentine/Benjamin and fruit salad with mum's side, then turkey dinner with million trimmings with dad's side. Champagne and hilarity throughout.) Thoroughly spoiled. Parents are coming over later for Boxing Day tea, which means I should probably make a ( Read more... )