On the Two 2002 “Times Like These” by Foo Fighters and Jack Johnson
Of Alma 62:41 and the new year.
Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.
Of Alma 62:41 and the new year.

Everybody’s falling on me and I’m as dead as a Christmas tree.
I wish I was a sentimental ornament you hung on the Christmas tree…
It’s Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanza/And your presence is my gift this year.

You don’t have to try so hard to find the Utah allusions in this one.
Recalling how the very first Simpsons episode was a Christmas special about a blue-collar man who can’t afford gifts for his family…
And the town was lit up by a cold Christmas moon/The parents they cried and the miners they moaned…

But what a rumor!
“My Favorite Things” was not originally a Christmas song, and John Coltrane proves it.

With some notes on Michelle Pfeiffer’s righteously angry Catwoman.
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