“Free thine own from Satan’s tyranny; From depths of hell Thy people save”

by chuckofish

Well I find myself here on Tuesday evening, again, pondering what tales to regale you with this week. You all know that my parents visited the happening town of Jeff City this weekend. I thought maybe I’d do a post about how life here is just like a Hallmark movie (minus the romance!) but then my mother STOLE MY BIT in Monday’s post.

I mean, I’ll forgive her, just this once.

Then I thought I’d write about how in lists of Top Christmas Movies, White Christmas is always treated like the lesser of the two when compared to Holiday Inn. Yes, both movies star Bing Crosby and both contain the song “White Christmas.” But other than that, they’re not terribly similar and White Christmas is undeniably the better option. It has Danny Kaye in yellow socks and all of Vera Ellen’s Edith Head costumes.

So I was going to provide some backup evidence for this but OF COURSE the New York Times now says I’ve reached my limit of free articles this month (is that like -1??) and thus I cannot include quotes from their original review from 1954 where the writer is basically like “Meh, it’s low-energy and feels like they are all phoning it in.” As if.

Favorite movie dress of all time.

Also, who can hear the music that goes with that gif?

In other news, this made me laugh.

And so did this:

To wrap up this little Yuletide Clambake of a post, one of the interesting things about going to a Presbyterian church after 35+ years as an Episcopalian, is learning the music. Some hymns are the same, some hymns are new, and some hymns are sung to different tunes. Recently, we sang “Come Thou Long Expected Jesus” but to the tune that Episcopalians sing “Love Divine”. I have to say, I really like it.

Here is my favorite Branson-based family bluegrass band, The Petersens, singing two Advent classics including the aforementioned with the new/old tune.