XMASTIME

Friday, January 30, 2026

Hey Ho Rock & Roll Deliver Us From Nowhere ❤️ MPLS

For Bruce in MPLS Right Now ❤️

57 Years Ago Today

After all the hours we’ve now spent with them, trying the new songs and fretting about the very existence of the band itself, the moment Paul McCartney walks through the door and onto the roof is a moment of triumph that literally made me whoop with joy. - XMASTIME

Current Events

Pretty crazy how all those pocket-sized US Constitutions Republicans loved waving around for years have suddenly disappeared. 🤔 🤷‍♂️

Fab Four FriYay

Here's the first official photos of the main actors from The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event, directed by Sam Mendes coming out in April 2028:

Paul Mescal is Paul McCartney
Barry Keoghan is Ringo Starr
Joseph Quinn is George Harrison
Harris Dickinson is John Lennon

XMASTIME'S GRADES RE: HOW SOLD HE IS ON THEM BASED PURELY ON THESE PHOTOS AND NOTHING ELSE:

John B-
Paul A
George D
Ringo C-

Now Do The 10 Commandments Next.

The Vicar of Canterbury

So this happened yesterday:

Sarah Mullally walked into St. Paul’s Cathedral on Wednesday morning as the bishop of London. When she walked out in the afternoon as bells rang out, she was the spiritual leader of millions of Anglicans around the world. Mullally, 63, became the archbishop of Canterbury, making her the first woman to lead the Church of England.

YES I KNOW YOU'RE THINKING IT TOO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE CAN DAWN FRENCH COME BACK AS THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY NOW????!!!!! 🤗🤣❤️🇬🇧

Hey Ho Rock & Roll Deliver Us From Nowhere

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Xmastime Wannabe Puzzle

On Rt. 360 between Richmond & Tappahannock.

USA! USA! USA!

Oh look I found some footage of 2nd Amendment super-warriors who've spent decades fantasizing about using their guns to rise up & defend all of us from government tyranny when some of that government tyranny comes rolling into American cities and killing citizens:

Baby Turns Around GIFfrom Baby GIFs

Life as a Republican

"Musicians should STFU and sing!"
"What about reality tv stars?
"We should worship them like jesus & insist they be made king of America."

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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Oh Yeah the Super Bowl

I haven't paid a lick of attention about the game at all but I just noticed the Patriots & Seahawks were playing in it; the last time these teams met in the Super Bowl I was on such fire at the party I was at that the following group email was sent out the next morning:

“Greg had a Klay Thompson type-night for the Super Bowl; A+material, much of it new, observationally on the mark all night; rollicking in the aisles. Hat tipped."

CHALLENGE FOR 2026 ACCEPTED!

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

15 Years Ago Today on Xmastime

I dropped this truth bomb about corporations & billionaires that's unfortunately even more relevant today:

My problem is their bitching and moaning. For instance, why the fuck does someone like me even know what the corporate tax rate is? The answer is they feel the need to win some sort of public relations game that doesn't actually exist.

They're not happy merely being rich as shit, they want you to feel sorry for them too. Why can't they just take their money, light big cigars on their boats and say "fuck you, we did nothing wrong, it's our money"?

It's as if it's no longer just enough to be right, it's much more important to be wronged.

Current Events

Just putting this right here for right now:

The only delicious irony will be after years & years of these motherfuckers crying & squealing with rage about Obama coming to take their guns, watching them bow down on their knees begging for approval as they hand their beloved guns over to Trump. - Xmastime, September 2025

Housekeeping

You superfans may have a noticed a marked slowdown in my posting output over the last few weeks. I’ve long realized that anytime a melancholy threatens to take hold of me it’s usually because I’m not working on anything creative, which fortunately or unfortunately seems to be the main key to my own happiness, and my not posting as much is usually an early indicator of this for me. But I seem to be at my normal happiness baseline right now, so my relative lack of posting may be because I’ve spent like 75% of the last month visiting people, which is probably not good for pumping out Xmastime blog posts but probably good for my overall health & well-being, whatever that is. Or maybe it’s because I didn’t make it to 40,000 posts before Xmastime hit 20 years, back in November? 🤷‍♂️ I don’t know, but don’t worry I’m sure I’ll be back to my normal unasked-for pace of posting soon enough. 😜🕺

Thoughts That Would Wake Me From a Deep Sleep, I

What if it turns out I'd actually love wearing a vest?

The One Thing I Know for Sure About Women

When I saw this pop up the first thing I thought was gee, I wonder how long we'll hafta sift throughout the comments to see the word "Snackwells"...

...and it turns out the answer is "all the way until the second one".

Me, at a Sink with an Automatic Soap Dispenser

“I'm just a guy, standing in front of an automatic soap dispenser, asking it to please hit my fucking hand more than once every five fucking swipes underneath it.”