I know about "The Night Santa Went Crazy", but the mass shooting sort of violence in it is not so funny anymore; I much prefer "Christmas At Ground Zero". I'll have to look into the AC/DC one, though.
Some of my favorites from my playlist:
- Jonathan Coulton and John Roderick's banger Christmas album One Christmas At a Time, of which my favorites are "Christmas In Jail", "One Christmas at a Time", and "Christmas with You Is the Best"
- Also, Jonathan Coulton's "Chiron Beta Prime"
- "Sad" and "CryptoSanta" by Lemon Demon
- "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight)" by the Ramones
- Most of the stuff on "They Might Be Giants in Holidayland" EP is good; most of it is from earlier albums, but it's a good collection of holiday stuff they've done. I'm just sad they've never released "We Just Go Nuts at Christmastime".^1^
- Puddle's Pity Party version of "I'll Be Home For Christmas", because it sounds like someone is sneaking up behind you to murder you.
- "Me and the Snowman" by Logan Whitehurst
1: There's also a song called "Christmas Cards" never released outside of a 7" from 1993. "Christmas In the Bighouse" is not on streaming because it's exclusive to the band's shop; I own it on CD and in FLAC, but can't put it on the playlist unfortunately because it's in Apple Music and collaborative playlists can't use personal library tracks.
No VHS tape with not-quite-Gowron telling you to experience bIj?! That’s a deal-breaker.
The My Chemical Romance cover of this song is quite good, perhaps better than the original.
I think my very long Christmas playlist with a mix of alternative and popular Christmas songs insulates me from hearing the original on repeat, and as a result, I don't have as bitter of feelings towards it. I mean, it's not my favorite, but I've heard much worse Christmas songs. It's a lowest-common-denominator corporate pop anthem, but at least a well-executed one; as long as it's not on repeat, I don't mind hearing it once in a while.
Personally, what I think would be awesome is a semi-anthology series inspired by LD's Wej Duj where each episode follows a different ship, and each episode builds to a final plot in which all the ships are involved.
Of course, we'd have the Klingon episode, but mainly, I just want an episode called "Cetacean Ops" that follows the crew of the USS George & Gracie, a Starfleet vessel staffed almost entirely by a plethora of aquatic life forms - I'm talking humpback whale captain next to Xindi Aquatic first officer-type things.
You might have a small crew of humanoids for maintenance and the occasional away mission or non-aquatic starbase, and you could explore an interesting story around how an aquatic crew tries to accommodate them.
And I bet at least one of those named versions gets involved in bizarre causality loop or some other temporal shenanigans.
“They put a paywall on a bomb?! Stupid Feren-“
- The final words of Nick Locarno
PDF forms are often horrible when done wrong; however, PDF files are really good for when you really need a document to look the same everywhere and don't want to worry about what fonts the recipient has.
The accessibility issues are legit, though.
I otherwise agree, but what’s particularly wrong with PDFs? Almost anything can generate a PDF these days.
Funny post, but "his/her" makes me think, "What about non-binary Klingons?"
That poses the interesting question: what is it like to be non-binary, or queer in general, as a Klingon? Sounds like a whole c/Daystrom Institute post I need to make.
Also, DuoLingo has lost its honor in general with its AI obsession and heavy layoffs; only a petaQ would use such a coward’s website.
The only way a true warrior can learn Klingon is the old ways - the Okrand books and tapes!
EDIT: Klingon Wiki is also helpful, as is KlingonSKA for searching words and Hol ‘ampaS for font-related stuff and digital versions of out-of-print Okrand tapes.
"Feeeeeeeeed me!"