Please pardon the goofy grin

This morning I tuned into one of my alternate Launchcast stations and heard the Elmo & Patsy classic "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer," a song which I, unlike sane people everywhere, actually like. But that's not why I've got the goofy grin. The track playing now is not, technically, a Christmas song--it's a large portion of a soundtrack. Artist: Boris Karloff; Track: How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Twenty-one minutes and forty-one seconds of narration and singing from a show I haven't been able to see in years. Now Grinchy Claus is sliding down the chimney! Whee! And now "You're as cuddly as a cactus, you're as charming as an eel, Mr. Griiiinch!" [Edit: Ooh, it's the whole thing, minus the commercial time? The Grinch's heart just grew three sizes!]

Gratuitous Lyrics Post

It's official! I have now heard every holiday song I really needed to this year--Launch just finished playing "Christmas at Ground Zero." Now I must share the lyrics with you all, along with a couple of my other Christmas favorites. Hey, I don't do this sort of thing all that often, so surely you can forgive me now.

Weird Al Yankovic--"Christmas at Ground Zero"

It’s Christmas at ground zero
There’s music in the air
The sleigh bells are ringing and the carolers are singing
While the air raid sirens blare

It’s Christmas at ground zero
The button has been pressed
The radio just let us know
That this is not a test

Everywhere the atom bombs are dropping
It’s the end of all humanity
No more time for last-minute shopping
It’s time to face your final destiny

It’s Christmas at ground zero
There’s panic in the crowd
We can dodge debris while we trim the tree
Underneath the mushroom cloud

You might hear some reindeer on your rooftop
Or Jack Frost on your windowsill
But if someone’s climbing down your chimney
You better load your gun and shoot to kill

It’s Christmas at ground zero
And if the radiation level’s okay
I’ll go out with you and see all the new
Mutations on new year’s day

It’s Christmas at ground zero
Just seconds left to go
I’ll duck and cover with my yuletide lover
Underneath the mistletoe

It’s Christmas at ground zero
Now the missiles are on their way
What a crazy fluke, we’re gonna get nuked
On this jolly holiday

( The rest of my top three! )