Bakers Dozen

[Bullitt]

Things you typically do in the Dark:

1. Look for Nightcrawlers
2. Fumble for a Flashlight
3. Sleep
4. Stargaze
5. Watch movies
6. Read eBooks
7. Roast Marshmellows
8. have sexy time, sometimes even with another person
9. Drive long distances

[Annie-Xmas]

Things you typically do in the Dark:

1. Look for Nightcrawlers
2. Fumble for a Flashlight
3. Sleep
4. Stargaze
5. Watch movies
6. Read eBooks
7. Roast Marshmellows
8. have sexy time, sometimes even with another person
9. Drive long distances
10. Walk around this time of year to see holiday lights

[Infovore]

Things you typically do in the Dark:

1. Look for Nightcrawlers
2. Fumble for a Flashlight
3. Sleep
4. Stargaze
5. Watch movies
6. Read eBooks
7. Roast Marshmellows
8. have sexy time, sometimes even with another person
9. Drive long distances
10. Walk around this time of year to see holiday lights
11. Develop film

(in the “editorial ‘you’” sense–certainly not me personally!)

[Bullitt]

Things you typically do in the Dark:

1. Look for Nightcrawlers
2. Fumble for a Flashlight
3. Sleep
4. Stargaze
5. Watch movies
6. Read eBooks
7. Roast Marshmellows
8. have sexy time, sometimes even with another person
9. Drive long distances
10. Walk around this time of year to see holiday lights
11. Develop film
12. go for a run

[Annie-Xmas]

Things you typically do in the Dark:

1. Look for Nightcrawlers
2. Fumble for a Flashlight
3. Sleep
4. Stargaze
5. Watch movies
6. Read eBooks
7. Roast Marshmellows
8. have sexy time, sometimes even with another person
9. Drive long distances
10. Walk around this time of year to see holiday lights
11. Develop film
12. go for a run
13. Take a bus instead of walking

Next up: Your vote for the absolute worst holiday song ever.

1. The Carpenters “Happy Christmas Darling”

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Next up: Your vote for the absolute worst holiday song ever.

1. The Carpenters “Happy Christmas Darling”
2. NewSong’s “Christmas Shoes”

[JohnT]

Next up: Your vote for the absolute worst holiday song ever.

1. The Carpenters “Happy Christmas Darling”
2. NewSong’s “Christmas Shoes”
3. McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”

[anyrose]

Your vote for the absolute worst holiday song ever.

1. The Carpenters “Happy Christmas Darling”
2. NewSong’s “Christmas Shoes”
3. McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”
4. “Feliz Navidad” by anyone

[tripthicket]

Your vote for the absolute worst holiday song ever.

1. The Carpenters “Happy Christmas Darling”
2. NewSong’s “Christmas Shoes”
3. McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”
4. “Feliz Navidad” by anyone
5. Jeff Foxworthy’s “Redneck 12 Days of Christmas”

[Dendarii_Dame]

Your vote for the absolute worst holiday song ever.

1. The Carpenters “Happy Christmas Darling”
2. NewSong’s “Christmas Shoes”
3. McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”
4. “Feliz Navidad” by anyone
5. Jeff Foxworthy’s “Redneck 12 Days of Christmas”
6. “Here Comes Santy”

[astorian]

Your vote for the absolute worst holiday song ever.

1. The Carpenters “Happy Christmas Darling”
2. NewSong’s “Christmas Shoes”
3. McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”
4. “Feliz Navidad” by anyone
5. Jeff Foxworthy’s “Redneck 12 Days of Christmas”
6. “Here Comes Santy”
7. Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”

[Little_Nemo]

Your vote for the absolute worst holiday song ever.

1. The Carpenters “Happy Christmas Darling”
2. NewSong’s “Christmas Shoes”
3. McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”
4. “Feliz Navidad” by anyone
5. Jeff Foxworthy’s “Redneck 12 Days of Christmas”
6. “Here Comes Santy”
7. Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”
8. “Have A Cheeky Christmas”

[Sampiro]

Your vote for the absolute worst holiday song ever.

1. The Carpenters “Happy Christmas Darling”
2. NewSong’s “Christmas Shoes”
3. McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”
4. “Feliz Navidad” by anyone
5. Jeff Foxworthy’s “Redneck 12 Days of Christmas”
6. “Here Comes Santy”
7. Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”
8. “Have A Cheeky Christmas”
9. Do They Know It’s Christmas?

Particularly the GLEE cover.

[Dendarii_Dame]

Your vote for the absolute worst holiday song ever.

1. The Carpenters “Happy Christmas Darling”
2. NewSong’s “Christmas Shoes”
3. McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”
4. “Feliz Navidad” by anyone
5. Jeff Foxworthy’s “Redneck 12 Days of Christmas”
6. “Here Comes Santy”
7. Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”
8. “Have A Cheeky Christmas”
9. Do They Know It’s Christmas?
10. Jingle Bells, Batman Smells

[Sampiro]

Your vote for the absolute worst holiday song ever.

1. The Carpenters “Happy Christmas Darling”
2. NewSong’s “Christmas Shoes”
3. McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”
4. “Feliz Navidad” by anyone
5. Jeff Foxworthy’s “Redneck 12 Days of Christmas”
6. “Here Comes Santy”
7. Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”
8. “Have A Cheeky Christmas”
9. Do They Know It’s Christmas?
10. Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
11. Christmas Don’t Be Late/Chipmunk Christmas Song

Before this year it was just annoying. Now, thanks to the Glee Christmas episode of 2013, it is forever conflated in my mind with the image of Kurt hogtied and in his underwear wearing antlers and a red nose.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Your vote for the absolute worst holiday song ever.

1. The Carpenters “Happy Christmas Darling”
2. NewSong’s “Christmas Shoes”
3. McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”
4. “Feliz Navidad” by anyone
5. Jeff Foxworthy’s “Redneck 12 Days of Christmas”
6. “Here Comes Santy”
7. Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”
8. “Have A Cheeky Christmas”
9. Do They Know It’s Christmas?
10. Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
11. Christmas Don’t Be Late/Chipmunk Christmas Song
12. Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

I am shocked - shocked! - to be the first to mention it.

[Sampiro]

Your vote for the absolute worst holiday song ever.

1. The Carpenters “Happy Christmas Darling”
2. NewSong’s “Christmas Shoes”
3. McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”
4. “Feliz Navidad” by anyone
5. Jeff Foxworthy’s “Redneck 12 Days of Christmas”
6. “Here Comes Santy”
7. Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”
8. “Have A Cheeky Christmas”
9. Do They Know It’s Christmas?
10. Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
11. Christmas Don’t Be Late/Chipmunk Christmas Song
12. Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
13. Santa’s Super Sleigh

An homage to Will’s angst in About A Boy

In honor of Saving Mr. Banks-

Writers who disapproved of adaptations (film, stage, TV or other) of their works

1. Stephen King

He vocally disliked Kubrick’s ** The Shining** among other adaptations

[NDP]

In honor of Saving Mr. Banks-

Writers who disapproved of adaptations (film, stage, TV or other) of their works

1. Stephen King: He vocally disliked Kubrick’s ** The Shining** among other adaptations.
2. Gore Vidal: Disowned the film version of Myra Breckinridge and called it “an awful joke” and claimed it killed sales of his book.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Writers who disapproved of adaptations (film, stage, TV or other) of their works

1. Stephen King: He vocally disliked Kubrick’s The Shining among other adaptations.
2. Gore Vidal: Disowned the film version of Myra Breckinridge and called it “an awful joke” and claimed it killed sales of his book.
3. C. S. Lewis: Did not want the Narnia books made as plays or movies because he was afraid that Aslan as a pantomime lion would lose his fierceness. He might have approved of the CGI, though.

[John_DiFool]

Writers who disapproved of adaptations (film, stage, TV or other) of their works

1. Stephen King: He vocally disliked Kubrick’s The Shining among other adaptations.
2. Gore Vidal: Disowned the film version of Myra Breckinridge and called it “an awful joke” and claimed it killed sales of his book.
3. C. S. Lewis: Did not want the Narnia books made as plays or movies because he was afraid that Aslan as a pantomime lion would lose his fierceness. He might have approved of the CGI, though.
4. Christopher Tolkien, c.f. Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films.