Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Watch Daryl Hall and John Oates Celebrate Christmas Together in Happier Times
Friday, February 23, 2024
Former President Jimmy Carter Honored with White House Holiday Ornament
Former President Carter |
Founded by former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961, the White House Historical Association has been creating and releasing official White House ornaments each year since 1981. The ornaments celebrate the history of the White House and the presidents who serve there. Sale of the ornaments help fund the Association, which raises money from private sources to maintain the White House and its furnishings.
The release of the 2024 ornament honoring Carter is detailed in the following video:
2024 Holiday Ornament |
The White House Historical Association featured the annual ornaments tradition in its The 1600 Sessions podcast two years ago, as you can see in the following video:
Monday, January 1, 2024
Happy New Year, and Welcome 2024!
And in New York's Times Square, locals and visitors participated in the traditional countdown and dropping of the Times Square ball:
Saturday, December 30, 2023
This One's About Cowbells, Not Sleigh Bells, But It's One of the Best SNL Sketches Ever
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Yes, It's Boxing Day . . . and Our Friends from the North Have Gifted Us with an Interplanetary Horror Show called "The Christmas Martian"
This year's selection is a Canadian flick with a space-age theme called "The Christmas Martian." It takes place in a small town in Quebec province, where bizarre things have been happening. Residents have been seeing strange objects in the sky at night. A local shopkeeper sees an odd-looking character stumble into his store, wolf down a bunch of snacks and run away. A taxi driver sees a funny-looking woman come out of a phone booth and fly off into the air. As the grown-ups begin to investigate, Frankie and Kathy discover strange looking tracks in the snow while out looking for a Christmas tree. The tracks lead them to a spaceship and a visiting Martian wearing a fishnet stocking on his face who tempts them with candy and introduces them to a world beyond our own. As Frankie and Kathy get to know their new friend, the adults in town make a muck out of everything — and on Christmas, of all days!
The story is bizarre, the dialogue is tacky, the special effects are awful — it's just the sort of thing you'd expect of our Boxing Day Horror Show!
The full video is no longer available on YouTube, but you can catch it for free for a limited time on Tubi, right HERE.
To set the stage, here's a review of what you're in for. Don't say we didn't warn you!