I’m beat, and I have a ton of stuff to do today, so here’s some seasonally-appropriate filler. I spent a while in a big chain bookstore’s cafe area yesterday, doing some edits on the book-in-progress (I can’t do this effectively anywhere where I have Internet access), and was stuck listening to some sort of “quirky” piped-in Christmas music– “O Holy Night” played on a banjo, or some such.<\/p>\n
So, here, as a palette cleanser of sorts, is the official list of Christmas songs that don’t suck, as determined by me. These are the four- and five-star rated songs from my iTunes Christmas playlist (there are a bunch of three-star songs as well). Suggestions of things that ought to be on the list are welcome.<\/p>\n
What am I missing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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