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- Something for Thursday (Friday edition) September 26, 2025
- Tuesday Tones September 23, 2025
- A Turnip Cures Elvis (Something for Thursday, Friday edition) September 19, 2025
- Tuesday Tones September 16, 2025
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- All I’ll say for now… September 10, 2025
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- What’s blue and white and poofy all over? September 8, 2025
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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
I couldn’t decide which version of this carol I wanted to use, so you get them both. One’s instrumental, and one’s choral. Here are two versions of “Bring a Torch Jeanette, Isabella”.
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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
It’s not Christmas without Love Actually, so here’s Billy Mack.
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Something for Thursday
It’s not going to be all-Christmas all the time this month! You know, it’s funny about country music. It’s not my favorite genre, and I probably actively dislike well over fifty percent of it. But the stuff I hear that … Continue reading
Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
I’ve just been made aware that Spinal Tap did a Christmas song called “Christmas with the Devil”. Ayup!
A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter
If you watch cooking shows on teevee, what’s your favorite? Could be food documentaries, instructional cooking shows, competitions, anything!
Your Daily Dose of Christmas
Here’s an old classic, “Sleigh Ride” — but not the one you’re thinking of! This one is by composer Frederick Delius.
Sentential Links
Haven’t done one of these in, oh, forever…. :: She went away for about a week to Grandma and Grandpa’s house in mid-August, spending time with her 13 y.o. twin cousins, and she comes home a Weird Al maven. (Next … Continue reading
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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
There are times I really miss Johnny Carson. He and his crew used to do the most wonderfully funny Christmas musical bits. Here is a case in point!
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“Shiny in the Black”: A FIREFLY Christmas! (part one)
It’s a Christmas tradition here at Byzantium’s Shores! I rarely commit acts of fanfiction, but…this is one of them. If Firefly had ever had a “Very Special Christmas Episode”, I think it might well look like this. Enjoy! It’s in … Continue reading
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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
Time to start this feature up again! The world needs some Christmas music, so we’ll have some here, each and every day this month until the 25th. Hooray! As in other years, some selections will be new, while others will … Continue reading