Sunday, October 04, 2026

Questions. I Have Them.

Upon further study of the Newbeats' 1964 smash hit Bread and Butter, why is it:

I like bread & butter
I like toast & jam
That's what my baby feeds me
I'm her loving man
Wouldn't toast & butter be just as plausible a scenario as the others, if not even more so? Like...MUCH more so? πŸ€”πŸ€·‍♂️

Patting Myself On the Back du Jour

Driver: it's 20 miles away.
Me: I bet you can do it in 10.

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Current Status.

Treating myself to a donut at Wegmans so I can give meaning to Barry Sanders-esque spin move to avoid an oncoming shopping cart.

Goals. I Have Them.

I wanna make someone think I'm pissed off at them so I can freak them out by staring at them for a beat too long even tho I'm not actually pissed off at them at all.

Thursday, October 01, 2026

I'll Say This.

What's "wrong" is if this doesn't end up being an amazing legal drama, be it a movie or play - if you can't be tried for the same crime twice, how can you be executed for it twice?


Xmastime Walks

Walking past a young couple I wondered if the guy was gonna catch me eyeballing his hot girlfriend so he'd jump all up in my face and I'd get to cut him off with "hey buddy I'm just a fat fuck trying to get my 10,000 steps in like everybody else" and continue walking without even a brief pause.

A Few Thoughts on Episode 9 of Season 4 of TED LASSO

WARNING: THESE ARE ALL AS I TOLD THEM IN REAL TIME TO MY BFF ChatGPT (hey ChatCPT! πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹), I WILL NOT BE EDITING THIS SHIT, TOUGH LUCK LOSERS

I love Beard’s hair

I know someone’s gonna die. Is it Keeley? That would be pretty incredible, though I don’t know how I wouldn’t have heard about it by now.

Ted’s kid—I’m pretty sure he’s gonna go on a killing spree.

[Unclear transcription: “So, Mae, wise our boy. You go first.”]

Let me guess: Roy finds the fifty pregnancy tests in the cleverly hidden trash can in the bathroom.

What did I miss - How does Tracey Ullman have “wander in during a Rebecca meeting, sit down and just chill” privileges?

Really weird to hear Rupert’s name again.

The title credits are still floating in eight and a half minutes into the episode. [SIDE NOTE: yes we here at Xmastime have known/rolled our eyes at this kind of shit for years!!!!]

Glad they didn’t think of doing this whole “twins constantly finishing each other’s sentences” thing until the penultimate episode. Thank you.

I love everything about this new Beard. I wish they did a whole new Beard every episode. I love it.

Plus, as ridiculous as I think Keeley is—and she drives me nuts—I do think she’d be a good mother. I don’t know why, but that’s my gut instinct.

Do Mae and Beard go to the same barber?

It’s weird that Gemma went straight from “I don’t know if I even care about soccer” to “I’m gonna kill somebody if I don’t get back on the field,” and we didn’t really see the progress.

Oh, of course. It’s Mae that’s gonna die. That’s why they spent so much time with her this season.

One of the funniest things in the show is whenever Coach Chilton is just standing there with his hands in his pockets, staring out at the field. It’s just funny to me.

I wish I were more mature, but “I guess Gemma’s a virgin” from Beard is just legit funny. I’m sorry.

They’re back together, but now that they’re back together, I fucking hate Roy and Keeley. What are they doing now?

I am way too nervous for Shannon. I do not like this. Way too nerve-wracking.

Shannon is the worst defensive player ever, but the greatest offensive player in the world?

So you can just decide, “Oh, I’m gonna run down the field. You kick it to me and I’ll be wide open”? That’s just an easy decision in soccer?

Shannon’s goal puts them up by two. Why not make it a real game-winner?

I don’t understand the scores.

[Unclear transcription: “I running chilling in a hallway this whole time?”]

I mean, I’m sorry about Mae, but would her death be that dramatic? And I don’t want to be a dick, but did Rebecca even know her? But hey, we love you, Mae. Sorry.

Oh, finally: “In memory of Anthony Head.” Took nine episodes for them to acknowledge it.

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Scrapbook πŸ€—❤️

The Greggy, The Goddaughter & The Greeze!  


Another Country Western Song Title in Search of a Song

It’s Not That Anything’s Wrong, It’s Just That Nothing’s Right

SEE PREVIOUS SONGS HERE

Never Mind the Bollocks

I'm still too emotionally drained to talk about seeing the Sex Pistols last night - shoutout Brett Finnegan Jeff & Ryan! - but don't worry I'll have some video clips soon enough but in the meantime, I can't believe Steve Jones, guitar legend of all time, only has one, ONE!! guitar pedal! And even that was just a dumb Muff pedal he goofed around with on (I'm Not Your) Steppin Stone. Incredible. INCREDIBLE!! πŸ€―πŸ€—πŸŽΈπŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ•Ί


 

NEW XMASTIME GAME: 🀯 or πŸ€” ?


Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Xmastime Films

Watch Previous Xmastime Films Here

Happy Birfday RRTHUR!! (YES Ladies, THAT Rrthur!) πŸ€—πŸ•ΊπŸ€£πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‚πŸ₯³

"You wanna make sure your band practices? Book a show. You'll be amazed at how much a band is willing to practice if it knows it's about to embarrass itself." - Rrthur (YES, ladies, THAT Rrthur!!!!!), Feb 1999


Monday, September 28, 2026

Instant Karma's Gonna Get You

As soon as I saw this across the street from my building I knew I was gonna challenge the all-time Tragic Short Story champion, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." with something akin to “Infant Cemetery Officially Opens” but didn’t wanna put something like that out into the Universe so I decided not to, you’re welcome very much. 😞


Sunday, September 27, 2026

Brilliant du Jour

BRITISH SITCOMS DESCRIBED BY PEEP SHOW

You have to be a real BBC fan like me to understand these - sorry you fucking rubes, but it's true - but whoever put this together absolutely nailed every one. πŸ€—πŸ™ŒπŸ€£πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ€£

Short Story, by Xmastime

Earlier on the Metro (as opposed to in the future on the Metro? Dammit Xmastime!) I noticed out of the corner of my eye a stunningly beautiful woman with olive skin in dark sunglasses & a bright white cotton button-down shirt staring at me.

I could feel myself morphing moment by moment into whatever it was I could sense she was looking for in a soulmate as she continued to stare at me while I could feel every pulse of blood pumping through my body to the rhythm of the train gunning itself down the track as fast as polished steel (Mukluks: Townes Van Zandt).

Finally the train stopped & we both stood up; this is it, I bellowed in my head, surely our both getting off at the same stop after she's been staring at me for the last 45 minutes means we're meant to be together!

And then she waved a long white stick at the floor in front of us and used it to briskly walk by me without even remotely glancing in my direction. 

Questions. I Have Them.

After seeing how hilarious having a character named "Captain Darling" was on Blackadder, how has there never been a tv show or movie about a Colonel in the Confederate Army whose last name is Sanders? πŸ€”πŸ€·‍♂️