First off, let me preface by saying that Christmas is the least favorite of the many holidays for me. Far too many years spent in the commercial suburban hell of Southern California listening to my stepmother listening to the Motown Holiday album OVER AND OVER AND OVER again...

That out of the way, my personal favorites have always lent themselves to weird trends.

A few of my friends do a Dickensian "Saloon Girl" bawdy show that includes a devastatingly obscene and hilarious "Twelve Days of Christmas"... I'm also rather fond of "Fairytale of New York", if only 'cause it's one of the least holiday oriented songs I know...

But for real fun, a few friends and myself got together one year down on Balboa Pier in Newport Beach and did acapella carols to the tune of Beatles songs... it was a number of years ago, and before we'd go we would each have 5-6 beers, so the memories are hazy... I just remember having a blast before a large (and hopefully amused) crowd...

Sorry for the pointless meanderings, but this seemed like the place...

M