quacky: —–+—+—–

So, I think I may have done permanent damage to my brain last night.

I was up til about two, wrapping presents for Mrs. Quacky, and I decided it might be fun to listen to all XX recordings of Sleigh Ride in my collection, back to back. This is a LOT of Sleigh Ride, but I figured, since I’ve decided to love this song this year, and I hadn’t heard enough of it naturally, I’d just kind of force the issue. (Marshmallow World is so last year, right? Phil Spector’s just not doing it for me this year.)

So here’s what happened. It was nice listening, blah blah blah, good variations of the song, and all…

But now, I think the fricken thing is stuck in my head forever!

I’m serious. I’ve tried talking to myself quietly, rinsing the mind with many other equally catchy holiday numbers, like Silver Bells, or Baby, It’s Cold Outside. But the damn thing keeps coming back, like a nasty MRSA infection.

I swear to god, every time my mind is idle for 15 seconds, it’s there. I’m telling you, do NOT try this!

I’m kind of worried. What if it never leaves?


Medley: Jingle Bells & Sleigh Ride, Henry Mancini
Sleigh Ride, Adam Kempa
Sleigh Ride, Andy Williams
Sleigh Ride, C3-PO & R2-D2
Sleigh Ride, Caiola & Ortolani
Sleigh Ride, The Carpenters
Sleigh Ride, Jim Nabors
Sleigh Ride, Mel Torme
Sleigh Ride, The Ronettes
Sleigh Ride, The Soulful Strings
Sleigh Ride, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme
Sleigh Ride, TLC
Sleigh Ride, The Ventures
Sleigh Ride (The Latin Project Remix), Ella Fitzgerald
Sleigh Ride/Jingle Bells, Caiola & Ortilani/Jimmy McGrif
Sleigh Ride/Santa Claus' Party, Ferrante & Teicher/Les Baxter
Sleigh Ride, Mel Torme


You have got to listen to Georgia Greenberg singing Jingle Bells. Irresistable.

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originally uploaded by senses working overtime.

Scans from a vintage children’s book, Kitten Twins, scanned into the flickr of senses working overtime who does a wonderfully entertaining holiday music blog which is called the same thing.

KITTENS!

This is from google reader’s TRENDS function.

As you can see it is absolutely no surprise at all.

many more Soviet Space Santas

What if you rewrote John Denver’s weepy holiday “classic” as Please Daddy (Don’t Watch Porn On Christmas)?

Okay this isn’t holiday related, at, all… but I could not find any reference on the internet to a dirty variant of a term I think I might have coined today: “text-job” or “textjob.” I’ll leave it to you readers to work out the meaning, but if you asked for one on your phone you might get this in reply:

mnomnomnomnom … slrpslrsslrp …
sms sms sms … nomnommmmmmmmmmmmm … ulp!

If you don’t know the song, try here.

The Snowclones Database is a good demonstration of what should be a Rule of the Internet: If there are more than a half dozen variations of a thing, there will be a blog or wiki detailing these variations.

The site’s an enumeration of phrases like, “if there is an X there is Y of it,” (which I just made up!) — and then the blogar people of Snowclones.org go ahead and try to determine as many varieties of that phrase as they can from Google, and some kind of perl script apparently. The Snowclones.org crew work all the way through such important formulations as “In Soviet Russia, X Ys you” and I for one welcome our X overlords, and produce a pretty entertaining site. Although, I’m all the way finished reading it now, and I’m not sure how much material there is for them yet to discover.

NB: The best-known Rule of the Internet is of course #34 — If you can imagine it, there is porn of it, no exceptions.
And also:
35. If no porn is found of it, it will be created.
36. No matter what it is, it is somebody’s fetish. No exceptions.

Some things you never really get over. For many of my “peers”, that would be Transformers, or A-Team.

For me it is Super Friends and the Six Million Dollar Man.

Here are two lovely album covers, and if you follow the provided link and the do a heavy bit of scrolling with your mouse-wheel, you can download two of the most awkwardly nostalgic and unlistenable Christmas albums of all time.

Children’s Records & More: HERE’S WHAT I’M WORKING ON NOW FOR BOTH BLOGS - CHRISTMAS!!!

John K on all kinds of stuff writes:

Just as I was becoming aware of the futureness of style, the 70s descended and everything slipped into the dark ages Style and the future disappeared from the planet. Videotaped TV programs, Saturday Morning cartoons, soft rock and Star Wars cloaked the earth with a yellow ochre haze of blandness and the future died. Skill also vanished along with style.

Yeah man…

Choice pullquotes:

Typically, I would never advocate the addition of meat to a sweet cookie, but I’ve always viewed bacon as “the candybar of meats” so I only felt slightly weird about it.

Bacon panna cotta? no. Not good. Bacon Jello also wouldn’t work. I think the bacon might actually interfere with gelatin’s jelling properties, but I don’t know for sure, because I haven’t yet tried it.

There will be no sausage patty cupcakes or beef candy… Although I did make meat cupcakes for April fools day…

Observations:
Her actual cookie recipe is a little bit bizarre. I am going to stick with a traditional Tollhouse, plus bacon where some would add nuts, and then the maple glaze (sans cinnamon). WTF puts hazelnut flavoring in c.c.cookies??!!1

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I haven’t really wanted to buy myself a toy for about twenty years. But, it’s shit like this that makes me feel thirty years too old. Next year, R2 will turn 30. R2 the actor, not R2 the character, because, he’s been through some shit by the time we first meet him, and he’s at LEAST as old as Vader/Anakin, who is fricken OLD. I wonder if there’s any canonical answer to the question “how old is R2-D2?”

Anyways, the point of this link here is that some geeks who take everything apart, took apart Hasbro’s new R2-D2 toy robot, and took lots of pictures, which is what they do, I guess.

Cracking
Open Hasbro’s R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid | TechRepublic Photo Gallery

Charming and affable, he will serve as your dedicated helper (an extendable utility arm holds a drink) and loyal friend. He obeys commands, communicates with beeps and whistles, gestures, flashes his lights, swivels his dome

Evel was a formative influence in my youth.