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If you’re looking for some festive ambience for your Christmas Day celebration, look no further than the original classic WPIX Yule Log.

Sure, there are many imitations, but this is the real deal, and the soundtrack is just the kind of classic holiday fare we love here at FaLaLaLaLa!  I’ve got my TiVo all set to record it to watch tomorrow.

Directly from TheYuleLog.com, here’s where and when you can see The Yule Log in your area:

New York/WPIX ~ 4am-6am & 9am-1pm
Philadelphia/WPHL ~ 9am-12pm
Washington, D.C./WDCW ~ 8am-10am
Seattle/KCPQ ~ 5am-10am
Miami/WSFL ~ 9am-11am
Denver/KWGN ~ 5am-9am
Denver/KDVR ~ 5am-7am
Sacramento/KTXL ~ 4:30am-9am
St. Louis/KPLR ~ 8am-12pm  
Portland/KRCW ~ 5am-9:30am
Indianapolis/WXIN ~ 4:30am-9am
Bloomington/WTTV ~ 4:30am-6am
Hartford/WTIC ~ 9am-11am
Grand Rapids/WXMI ~ 3:30am-4:30am
Harrisburg/WPMT ~ 5am-10am
New Orleans/WGNO ~ 5am-7am
Chicago/WGN-9 ~ 2:30am-7am

National coverage on Cable and Satellite TV:
WGN America ~ 8am-11am (EST)

And we all owe Chip Arcuri much thanks for keeping the Yule Log spirit alive!

From the folks at Nickelodeon.

Friend of FaLaLaLaLa has some great classic Christmas images posted at his blog.
I heartily recommend you take a look.

The folks from Improv Everywhere know how to spread joy through public displays of jubilant insasnity and surprise. Here they help the Salvation Army spread some Christmas joy.

Our buddy Steve Mack (who provided the wonderful illustration for the 2005 ADVENTure In Carols) is posting a new Christmas card image each day from December 1st until Christmas.  He’s got a wonderful classic style, full of innocence, humor and fun.

Check them out.

So have you finally dropped from all of that Black Friday/Saturday shopping? Need to turn off your brain for awhile but you’re all out of EggNog? Spend some time playing a nice easy game of Holiday Bonus.

It’s a really straightforward Christmas-themed 3-in-a-row game. Nothing new or exciting, but it can be just the right way to spend some down time during the holidays. We love it at our house.

And a $7 download is not a bad deal either….

CLICK HERE to buy and download from Amazon.

Here it is, summertime in the good ol’ U.S. of A.  And while most of the country is thinking barbecues and fireworks, folks around these parts think of tinsel and Christmas carols.  It must be Christmas in July!

Ernie Not Bert’s Christmas In July

There’s a lot more free music and Christmas joy across the internet.  I don’t follow all of it, and I’m not much into a lot of the newer Christmas music.

But if that’s something you’re into, I highly suggest adding the feed from Santa’s Working Overtime to your RSS reader.

Our good friend Dinsdale Kringle really does work overtime scouring the net for free Christmas music, stories, songs, videos and general holiday fun.  Tell him The King sent you.

So here’s an image based on words used on this blog.

Do you think I like Christmas?

http://www.wordle.net

Anybody who has been around here all season probably has enough Christmas music to last them through NEXT Christmas (or maybe even 2010!).  So you have lots to listen to during your celebrations.

But to me the greatest aspect of this site is the ability to connect with other people who love Christmas music.  We talk and we share and we laugh.  It’s a great community and it’s not because of the music, it’s because of the people and the personal connections.

So, one of the great people around here is our friend, Jon Solomon.  He’s been hosting a 24-hour Christmas marathon on WPRB in Princeton, NJ for 20 years.  He goes on at 6PM tonight (Christmas Eve) and drags himself home tomorrow at 6PM.  In between he plays TONS of great and unusual Christmas music.  Also, our other good friend Mitch Kezin will be there filming for Jingle Bell Rocks, so it’ll be a big part if we’re all listening!

So please tune in (which you can do through online streaming) and connect with a great person, and know that lots of others are listening to him too.  This makes our connection to the music and to each other that much stronger.

Also, do like I’ve done for the past several years and give Jon a call, especially during the graveyard shift when he gets kind of spacey and needs help staying up (I kid! I kid!).

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