I used to, before I took public speaking lessons. I still tend to move my eyes around a lot in personal conversations, though.

They have complete legal freedom to break with the party.

But if they go to far, they’ll find the party is funding their primary opponent instead of them.

Oh yeah, lots of times.

I did not watch any youtube videos in 2025.

Man alive I wish I had a daily routine. You all don’t appreciate what you’ve got.

For other non-X-mas winter songs, consider:

The Head & the Heart — “Winter Song”

Dar Williams — “February”

Tacocat — “Snow Day”

Semisonic — “This Will Be My Year”

The Mountain Goats — “This Year”

Counting Crows — “Long December”

Kutless — “Vow”

I love celery and hate water chestnuts. Everyone’s different.

When I make soup my wife always tells me I put too much celery. I never feel like it’s enough.

Edit “solation” to “isolation”, that’s half the problem right there.

The “neck isolation” dance move. I had to watch the video to find out myself.

My approach is:

1. take notes
2. never look at them again
3. only remember the interesting parts

end of list

Here’s my whole Christmas playlist on spotify. Some folk, some oldies, some covers, some weird stuff, some new stuff. It’s been both expanded and winnowed every Advent for the last five years.

I can make a more Demento-like list, too, but these are ones I genuinely just like.

No, because I don’t go on any video platforms.

My top ten:

1. 100 gecs — “Sympathy for the Grinch”

2. Andrea Perry — “Fat Aunt Bette”

3. The Primatives — “You Trashed My Christmas”

4. The Barbary Coasters — “I’ve Been Naughty (and Nice)”

5. Fountains of Wayne — “The Man in the Santa Suit”

6. The Killers — “Cowboys’ Christmas Ball” (cover)

7. The Kinks — “Father Christmas”

8. Thomas Heinl — “Christmas Tree on Fire”

9. Emmy the Great — “Christmas Day (and I Wish I Was Surfing)”

10. The Reverend Horton Heat — “Santa Bring My Baby Back”

I’ll try to loop back through and add non-spotify links as I can.

My top ten:

1. 100 gecs — “Sympathy for the Grinch”

2. Andrea Perry — “Fat Aunt Bette”

3. The Primatives — “You Trashed My Christmas”

4. The Barbary Coasters — “I’ve Been Naughty (and Nice)”

5. Fountains of Wayne — “The Man in the Santa Suit”

6. The Killers — “Cowboys’ Christmas Ball” (cover)

7. The Kinks — “Father Christmas”

8. Thomas Heinl — “Christmas Tree on Fire”

9. Emmy the Great — “Christmas Day (and I Wish I Was Surfing)”

10. The Reverend Horton Heat — “Santa Bring My Baby Back”

I’ll try to loop back through and add non-spotify links as I can.

Politically correct answer: Neither, they’re inanimate, and gender is a social construct.

The early US was culturally and linguistically fairly heterogenous. That’s why they chose a federation instead of a unary government, and even that wasn’t the first choice, they tried a much looser confederation (not dissimilar to the EU) but it didn’t work well enough.

Consider yourself proven wrong.

Tetris, the original GameBoy cart.