A Cold, Cold ‘Coldbert’ Christmas

Amazon.com was sold out of A Colbert Christmas — The Greatest Gift of All!, so my thanks go to D.F. Rogers for procuring me a copy at a competitive price. The back of the case alone is worth the price.

A Colbert Christmas

Inexpensive, with a charity benefiting, and offbeat guffaws served up by Stephen Colbert with his guests — including two I’ve never heard of before — this is the best 2008 Christmas video ever! A not-to-miss extra is Stephen singing his instant classic, “Cold, Cold Christmas.” Here’s the audio, minus the video.

[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2008/DEC/ColbertChristmas.mp3]

Larissa Kelly News

Larissa Kelly
Larissa Kelly in high school

This item is from the Contra Costa Times:

UC Berkeley graduate student Larissa Kelly of El Cerrito will be one of 15 contestants trying to win the $250,000 grand prize up for grabs in the 2009 Tournament of Champions for the game show “Jeopardy!” taping next month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The tournament episodes will air March 11 to 24.

Kelly gained fame in the spring by winning $222,597 in seven games, the third-best total in the show’s long history and the best ever by a female contestant.

Parse and Brown

(How old was I when I realized they were singing “Parson Brown?”) I was going to put some Christmas music here, but I’ll borrow somebody else’s work. Over at the Warm Pie, Happy Home blog is a playlist from the Finetune service that will start playing automatically. You’ll find the player down on the left. This is what I’m hearing right now.

Finetune player