The Best Way to Deal With a Bully

December 2, 2024 by MichelleMcHatton

…is to punch him right in the SHITHOLE mouth.

24. Here Comes Santa Claus – Elvis Presley

December 2, 2024November 27, 2024 by MichelleMcHatton

With all due respect to Gene Autry, my favorite version of this song is the one sung by Elvis. He just gives it that extra bluesy and rock n’ roll feel that the original lacks. I do like the rendition with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra but nothing beats the Elvis 1957 version. Not that the original Autry version isn’t great in its own right. It is.

The song was written by Autry, Oakley Haldeman and Harriet Melka and when Autry originally sang it, he pronounced Santa Claus as “Santy Claus”.

The song idea came about when Autry, one of those original cowboys, was riding his horse in the 1946 Santa Claus Lane Parade (now the Hollywood Christmas Parade) in Los Angeles. Spectators chanted, “Here comes Santa Claus” and a light bulb went on.

“Here Comes Santa Claus” (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)”, which is what the song is originally known as, has been covered by many since Autry, most recently in 2023 by Seth MacFarlane and Elizabeth Gillies and was even played in National Lampoon’s “Christmas Vacation” near the end of the movie when all hell breaks loose. Yeah, Griswolds!

25. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Darlene Love

December 1, 2024November 27, 2024 by MichelleMcHatton

When it comes to iconic Christmas classics, the song “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” comes to mind.

Although the 1963 song, written by Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry and Phil Spector, has been covered by many artists—U2, Mariah Carey and Michael Buble, to name a few—nothing compares to the original sung by Darlene Love.

In 1986 Love sang the song live on the NBC broadcast of Late Night with David Letterman. Then in 1994 she most notably began a tradition of singing the song on the show every year right before Christmas. She did that for twenty years. Since 2015 she has been performing the song on The View.

What I like about it is the simpleness of the song. It exudes that old girl group sound that so many of the songs in the sixties were made of. Love sings the song with a true passion, like she really is begging for her baby to please come home for Christmas.

This Year’s Christmas Countdown

November 30, 2024November 27, 2024 by MichelleMcHatton

As has become a tradition on here for the past few years, I’ve “counted down” the days leading up to Christmas. One year it was Christmas shirts, last year it was movies. This year it’s music!

Stay tuned starting tomorrow for the first write-up of my favorite versions of 25 Christmas songs!

Because there’s more than one artist who has sung “Jingle Bells”…but which one is my favorite and why?

Tariff Time

November 25, 2024 by MichelleMcHatton

So SHITHOLE has just announced that as soon as he takes “office”, he’s going to enforce a 25% tariff on products from Mexico, Canada and China. It wouldn’t surprise me if more countries ended up in the mix eventually. You think prices are high now for everything from food to gas, just wait.

Here’s a little experiment I did recently, and you can and should do it too. Take a look at products around your house. How many things do you have in your home that were actually made in the USA? In one hundred items I looked at in my own home, I found one item that was manufactured in the USA with “essential ingredients from Canada” and Kleenex, fully made in the USA. So we’re good for toilet paper and tissues, I guess!

Go to any Walmart and look at the clothes and other textiles such as bedding and linens. You’ll be searching for a long time to find any textile item sold there that was made in the USA. The next time you do the laundry, look at the clothing tags. We could take a trip around the world in just washing our clothes!

Wrangler jeans made in Mexico. A Christmas t-shirt made in Haiti. Towels made in India and Indonesia. You name it. Even underwear and socks. It wasn’t made here. It was made everywhere BUT here.

Then there’s everything else: this laptop I’m typing on–made in China. Most of your housewares–made in China. A lot of your health and beauty products–made in Canada. Candy made in Mexico. In fact, cereal aside, I was hard-pressed to find many food items fully made in the United States. Many items were manufactured here but with imported ingredients. Imported from where, who knows! Shit, my Great Value oatmeal is a product of Canada AND the United States! How do I know which oats are Canadian and which are American? No wonder I feel partially Canadian when I eat breakfast every day!

In doing your Christmas shopping this year, it may be wise to stock up for next year and the years after because the prices you pay this year for everything from Wrangler jeans to electronics won’t be seen again for quite a while. And in going forward, it will probably be a good idea to stock up on certain foods, such as produce, much of which is imported, especially this time of year. Because those avocados you need for your guacamole or avocado toast? They come from Mexico and Guatemala.