The Blog Does Not Rest For God or Commerce

It's no secret that most of the working Western world all but shuts down from December 20 through the end of the year, but the media always makes a valient attempt at making it look like the lights are still on, even if it means the TODAY show has to scrape the bottom of the parent company's barrel in order to compensate for the absence of Merdith Viera, Matt Lauer AND Al Roker*** (who is actually potentially not on vacation, but pre-emptively benched -- last year, in the midst of a truly horrifying segment on holiday parties, my boyfriend caught him dipping a slice of ham into his glass of champagne on camera. I mean, do whatever gets you off in private, Roker, but let's keep that kind of thing away from the kids).

ANYWAY, I'm writing this post because it seems like at least half the A-list bloggers I read have made some kind of mention of their vacation status/location over the past day or so, and yet, unlike mainstream mediators, their blogs go on despite their physical displacement. Whitney at Pop Candy, for instance, promises she'll post tomorrow about the media consumed on her "looong drive" to Nashville today. The Reeler, meanwhile, is in "godforsaken California," and yet he's still blogging about the minutia of the New York film scene.
I like this -- I like it that blog ethic demands that the feeds be fed, vaguely-God-centric holidays be damned.

But me? According to Technorati, no one's reading this, anyway, so I'm just going to go to New Jersey tomorrow and leave the computer at home. Hopefully we'll make it back to civilization on Sunday in time to catch the program of racist and otherwise inappropriate Christmas cartoons at the Pioneer Theater.

I was going to add a picture of Al to this post, but Blogger's upload feature isn't working. Check it out here.

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All I Want For Whatevermas, Part One

I just updated my Amazon Wish List, to include Under the Rainbow, John Carlyle's memoir which includes a detailed account of his affair with Judy Garland (confusingly, Under the Rainbow is also the title of a different Garland-family chronicle, a ten-year-old exploitography on Liza Minnelli); and Sound and Vision: A Music Video Reader, which seems to whip in about out of availability every week or so, and which I've been try to acquire since roughly 1998. It's back in print as of this writing, but who knows for how long (hinthinthint)?

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Obsession of the Day, 11-30-2006

I love this -- the World of Wonder blog has posted a clip (an outtake? raw footage? not sure) from a RuPaul-hosted Christmas special, circa 1993, featuring an appearence by Nirvana. At a producers coaxing, the band sings "We Wish You A Merry Christmas", followed by warm Christmas greetings directed at Ru. Oh, 1993. I miss you so much.

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