What's Going on Friday? (Christmas)

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DOWNLOAD: Charles De Mar – This Christmas (MP3)
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tonight in NYC
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Merry Christmas!

Our thoughts and prayers are with Vic Chesnutt.

On TV:

What started out as a scheduling lark — Turner’s 24-hour “A Christmas Story” marathon — has now spread across the cable yuletide landscape.

For the 13th year in a row, Turner will dust off the 1983 cult fave, which will air this year from 8 p.m. Christmas Eve until 8 p.m. Christmas Day on TBS….Turner rivals have taken notice — which means TBS isn’t the only cabler decking the halls with a wall-to-wall marathon this year.

Leading the alternatives to “A Christmas Story” is FX, which is planning to run the movie “Night at the Museum” for a full day, also from Christmas Eve evening to Christmas Day evening. FX sister Fox Movie Channel will do the same with “Home Alone.”…Over at AMC, the cabler is splitting its holiday marathon in two, running 1954’s “White Christmas” all Christmas Eve night, and then 1989’s “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” all Christmas day.

Then there’s Spike TV, which will spend Dec. 25 running “Bad Santa” over and over again. [Variety]

A Holiday Poem from Brendan Benson and Cory Chisel, and other videos below.

What else?

Michaelangelo Christmas Opera (w/subs)


A Holiday Poem from Brendan Benson and Cory Chisel

Splinter’s 12 Days of Christmas (karaoke)