Anyone interested in funny/silly/outrageous/bad Christmas recordings might be interested in two annual extravaganzas broadcast by WWOZ in New Orleans.

On Friday 12/17 (two weeks from today) Bill & Julie's Horrendous Holiday Music Party will air from 11am to 2pm US Central Standard Time. That's noon-3 Eastern, 10-1 Mountain, 9-noon Pacific, and for our friends in the Greenwich Mean Time zone, 5-8 am [sorry!]. You Aussies are on your own to figure out what time it will be there -- think it might be a different day ;^).

Missy Bowen, another of the regular DJs who has a Friday evening show (10-midnight), also teams with a friend for an annual program of bad/humorous holiday music. She is anticipating some kind of scheduling problem and is not sure what date and time they will do it this year, but it might be that same Friday 12/17. Missy's partner-in-crime on this project, "The Doctor," is also an 'OZ volunteer DJ, so it could happen in one of his time slots rather than hers. If it does air during Missy's assigned timeslot, 10pm-midnight CST translates to 4-7 pm in the British Isles -- a much more civilized hour than Bill & Julie!

I've really enjoyed these programs in past years -- lots of funny stuff, more or less in the tradition of Dr. Demento.