WFMU: Zzzzzzero Hour with Bill Mac: Playlist from December 25, 2014

Listener comments!
	12/23 8:20am Sem Chumbo: I can feel the warmth for here. Hiya, Bill. All gooned up for the holidays, I presume? gooned up= local patois for "everything in hand, time to kick back."
	12/23 10:12am Sem Chumbo: While in Europe, where some producers of fruit in a bottle of liqueur use two part bottles, the company I help out with starts with actual fruit trees hung with un-tricked-out bottles. Identifying blossoms at the end of suitable branches, we wait for the flower to be fertilized and a proto-fruit to identify itself. At this point, we slip a 750ml bottle over branch, securing the bottle in a cradle. And then, as Mr. Plow, aka, Homer Simpson says, "We play the waiting game." By and by, and if fire blight, insects, sun scald and the thousand other slings and arrows a pear is heir to, do no damage, and the pear is cosmetically suitable, it is cut from the mother branch, stem intact. Then the bottle is filled with pear eau de vie, which we also make. Eau de vie, known around our shop as refined moonshine is 40% ABV and as such proves an excellent preservative. Such was the case demonstrated, I think, with Admiral Nelson after the Battle of Trafalgar, when his corpse was sent home in a cask of spirits, to no discernible ill-effect. Whether or not he was toasted with glasses of his very own infusion upon arrival on that sceptred isle is yet a matter of scholarly dispute. We started this season with 425 bottles in the trees. Blew through Hurricane Arthur on July 5th taking a mighty toll, then a long dangerous summer fraught with pear peril. By the end of September, we had 173 finished bottles, each in its own clear pine box, and accompanied by the story above, more or less--minus the Nelson stuff. And this is why, Bill, a delicious pear brandy, a preserved fruit, a great story and a lovely handmade, in Nova Scotia, I might add, box, we charge $125 CDN. I personally get $25 for every one I sell, because I repeat this story hundreds of times before that happens:-) And I take considerable liberties with it, and perhaps this is why my success rate is so low but my pleasure increases with each re-telling. This story is my Christmas gift to you, Bill, and the Zzzzzzzero Hour faithful. Gods bless you, one and all, if the Fates allow.
	12/23 11:13am Brian in UK: Well Sem I can only say if I was in your manor I would purloin a bottle of said eau de vie. I still have a splash left of a poire William bottle from the last trip to Paris. I loves eau de vie. Settles the stomach wonderfully after a snorting feed. Love the description, the bottle I had was just clear liquid. We do make sloe gin and various fruit flavoured vodkas. Sad to say we do not distill them. Got to get back into mid season drinking form as I have been abstaining due to this impacted wisdom tooth (now extracted).
	12/23 12:15pm Bill Mac: You both make me want to drop everything I'm doing with my life and start a new one! I miss our talks about fine booze, and both of you are creating libations. So long as paying skills like phlebotomy can fund your passions it sounds like you can be way happy. Love the fruit in a bottle of liqueur tome - the topic became one of the recurring themes of our weekly jib-jab along with Brians hasty exits to walk the dog and feed the chickens. Sem, I just reread and comprehended the preservative part of your story. Reminds me of another story I read about honey infused Egyptians that weren't ready for consumption until they cured for a century. To drop in yet another Homerism - "mmmmm - honey infused Egyptians...." Brian - Hope your molar hole clears up before the festivities begin - maybe you start could earlier.
	12/23 12:22pm Bill Mac: @Sem "Gooned up" indeed! Doing my first show in a month, and a bunch of days away from the old grind... I'm ready...
	12/23 12:58pm Sem Chumbo: @Bill: well, as a connoisseur of marginalia and arcana, I confess my pure ignorance of Mellification, apart from the fact that mel derives from the Greek, for sweet. But this! Jesus. 木乃伊, [MUNAIYI]. HUMAN MUMMY CONFECTION Li [Shizhen]: According to 陶九成 [Tao Jiucheng] in the 輟耕錄 [Chuogenglu "Record after retiring from plowing"], it says in Arabia there are men 70 to 80 years old who are willing to give their bodies to save others. The subject does not eat food, he only bathes and partakes of honey. After a month he only excretes honey (the urine and feces are entirely honey) and death follows. His fellow men place him in a stone coffin full of honey in which he macerates. The date is put upon the coffin giving the year and month. After a hundred years the seals are removed. A confection is formed which is used for the treatment of broken and wounded limbs. A small amount taken internally will immediately cure the complaint. It is scarce in Arabia where it is called mellified man. Mr. [Tao] has recorded it in this way but Li [Shizhen] the author of this [Bencao] does not know whether it is true so he is recording it for others to verify.[2] While there will be guests here Christmas Day, and cooking for them is part of my duties, I have reserved 10-1 in order to hear ZH in its entirety, and I guess, live. I can say with certainty that the Christmas dishes I prepare will be totally Mellified Man-free, though there may be traces of tree or ground nut, soy, milk, egg, wheat, rice, marshmallow Fluff, Spam, bologna boat, toad in the hole, and MSG. Very much looking forward to your spins!
	12/23 1:58pm Brian in UK: That fire sure is warming. I completely misread macerates for a similar word, changed your whole story, Sem. Just been to the market and bought some Wild Halibut, bit pricey but heck. Cue the old joke Bill. Was it wild, well it was none too pleased. Timing not so great over here, we try and eat by the time it gets dark, around four, so hoping to catch the early part of the show. Might be time to get libating.
	12/23 2:22pm Bill Mac: Way to go! Two days before showtime and we're already talking about Candied Andy (no offense to Andy in Berlin!) Mary Roach wrote a book called 'Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers' that goes into just that, touching on the topic of Mellified Man. I find the description of it being 'scarce' a little bit disconcerting. Think there's still a culture of this happening somewhere?
	12/23 2:29pm Bill Mac: @Brian Yeah unfortunately I realize that the days' activities are already in full gear over there. We'll catch up. BTW thanks for writing this week. I was thinking of the collective crew earlier this week when I was wondering whether I was already turning into a 'lazy lopis' (as dear departed father would sometimes refer tome as), specifically come recent Saturday mornings. Hope everyone is hanging in.
	12/23 3:08pm Sem Chumbo: Near the end of Trouble's show today, there was an excerpt of Dylan Thomas reading from A Child's Christmas in Wales. I offer you a few moments of Canadiana, from a pretty funny guy, Howard Engel, who has a quite an amazing story himself (en.wikipedia.orgwiki/Howard_Engel) So, his take on ACCiW www.msgr.ca...
	12/23 3:50pm Brian in UK: Sem, first link non starter, as you can see it is not all highlighted. Bill, at least your old man had a sense of humour, mine kept his well hidden. I take everything seriously and nothing seriously. Working in a hospital you have to be able to invoked the humour in anything, which I do not find the least bit difficult. Buck, buck Number 1.
	12/23 3:56pm Sem Chumbo: revision: en.wikipedia.org... Thanks, Brian, let my proofreading eyes in my other life.
	12/23 3:58pm Sem Chumbo: left See what I mean?
	12/23 9:10pm Bill Mac: @Brian - Well, you're certainly a student of a lot of what I would consider funny, and a lot more that I don't quite get when it happens to squirt out on the chat during showtime. I think taking everything seriously and nothing seriously leaves you with a good combination to make you a good listener and conversationalist. I'm in healthcare myself, but not on the clinical side, which is a totally different head than from where I'm at.
	12/23 9:14pm Bill Mac: @Sem So what you're saying is that Howard Engel may not be able to read what he writes.
	12/23 9:23pm Bill Mac: @Sem All I can say is I wish I could write like that.
	12/24 6:25am Sem Chumbo: Good morning, Bill. Brining a turkey for roasting tomorrow, making a raw cranberry/celery/sweet onion/wild honey salad to marinate for a day, bread slow-rising, and slow-cooking a honey-ham (225F). (Is this the mellified Christmas menu or what?) I am SO looking forward to the show tomorrow. Hope all is well where you are.
	12/24 6:42am Brian in UK: Dylan Thomas' Childs Christmas is good but never reaches the heights of Under Milk Wood. The quality of the words have a narcotic effect in as much as you have to keep returning for another fix of semantics. Sem sounds good. The word brining crops up a lot in Thanksgiving & Christmas cooking. My wife will be makng a turkey & ham pie on Friday. Hmmmm. Fruit salad making this afternoon after work. That fire really does give out some heat. I did consider a barbecue for a Christmas present. Persoanally I cannot stand how there are used over here. Cheap burgers & sausages burnt to buggery. Never cooked on one before, might try my luck this year.
	12/24 7:07am Sem Chumbo: burnt to buggery: man, the English really have a way with the language. Good day, Brian. Off to the market on foot. More later.
	12:31pm Sem Chumbo: @Brian: I catered a small rural wedding for 40 last summer, at the organic farm of the bride's parents. Their own chicken and lamb were on the menu, and I cooked them in a pair of gigantic bar-b-ques. Preserved lemon and tarragon chicken, 2-day marinated lamb (much, much garlic, preserved lemon and a stupid amount of rosemary.) 275F for 4 hours (10 pound meat birds, and a pair of legs from a Lambosaurus Rex.) Beautiful heat control and a fine result. Quick and hot is too hard to control, low and slow is the way to go, in my opinion.
	1:11pm Brian in UK: I like the idea of cooking say chicken in a barby queue. Anchovies go well in lamb too. I have my eye on a Weber as the hood seems to allow for a kind of convection effect. I would like to cook fish on open heat too. It just seems such a waste of energy to not use all coals fully. I need to practice but in order to practice I need to have one. That meal sounded good.
	2:49pm Bill Mac: I'm more impressed by the phrase 'quality of the words have a narcotic effect'. It's exactly what I would have preferred to say if my fluency with the Kings' way of expressing myself wasn't limited to grunting and flashing the "thumbs up" when I'm asked to comment on something.
	3:11pm Bill Mac: If I had any sense I would organize a foodie junket and do a couple live shows from somewheres in the UK and somewheres in Nova Scotia (nudge nudge) We're still cleaning up drool puddles der missus left when she read tomorrows menu. When should we be there?
	3:19pm Sem Chumbo: Swing by any time, most of the work is already done. I'll tell you, the big highlight of the past month has been a little old Ashkenazi lady here (Lower East Side emigree, doncha know) who schooled me in challah/babka. Yep, sweet, yeast-risen challah dough, then the three braids rolled out flat and covered in bittersweet chocolate, cinnamon and brown sugar, then rolled up and braided. Needless to say there is plenty of butter, egg yolks, powdered sugar and such like involved. The result is divine. Paramedics will be standing by tomorrow with the de-fib paddles:-D
	3:34pm Bill Mac: Don't ruin this by reminding me of the consequences! You're killing me from here! We gotta move there.
	5:15pm Sem Chumbo: Well, it is not all lobster tails and every Sunday night free at the seraglio here. We locals often, in desperate times, live off the land: scarfing down apparently unowned and poorly hidden raw scallops on the run, cooking decent night-jacked venison under the cover of the smell of bootleg distilling, and as frequently as he is away, dining on the next door neighbours' sheep and chickens. We are still the highest taxed province in the country, with the biggest per capita debt, some roads which would easily translate into Six Flags rides, and own a stubborn, conservative, xenophobic, and often racist streak which would be right at home in deepest Mississippi. We have enough Irish and Scots genes here to infect us with a fatalist high humour which nothing but a coal mine disaster or half a dozen guys lost at sea can even momentarily dampen. As Brian wrote earlier, there is a certain equanimity (I paraphrase, take everything seriously/nothing seriously) in-bred here, taking the rough with the smooth you might say. Like the old joke (I heard it in Budapest), about Hungarian pessimists: "Things can't get any worse." Hungarian optimist: "Yes, they can!" Living in Nova Scotia is like that, and it is only the young who move away, trying to take the geographical cure for life, only to find it the same wherever they go. They come back, or at least no matter where they wind up living or for how long, when asked where they live, they name the place but they always say," I'm a Nova Scotian." This has not been lifted from the Provincial "So You Want to Live Here, eh" Guide to Immigration for Come from Aways, just so you know this is one man's opinion only. A highly esteemed man, yes, but still, just one man:-P
	4:24am Brian in UK: Well Sem we are living on a mighty mutlicultural island right now, was it ever thus. This country is remarkably open to new faces, ideas and thoughts. Anyway, HAPPY CHRISTMAS. It is a beautiful clear skied sunny day here. Bit of a frost last night. Chickens fed, turkey about to enter it's last resting place. Going to walk Spencer in the woods and collect youngest daughter. All three will be back in the nest soon. Then everything will be TICKERTY BOO.
	6:11am Sem Chumbo: Good on your Brian, it sounds as though you have this day well in hand. Tickerty boo, indeed. Still hear that around here, where there was an RCN training base for over fifty years, and the Brits were thick on the ground, once they pushed the Irish out of the way to make room. A Merry Christmas to you, as well.
	7:13am Brian in UK: Sem, that challah sounds wonderful. I am lazy and just make bread in a machine. Is it complicated. By the way, my favourite Hubert Selby Jnr. is The Demon. It fair took me aback when I first read it. Not had time to read all your personal missive will do in the fullness etc. I was surprised when reading The Willow Tree that he mentioned Ken Hollings and thanked him for his support and editing skills. I used to know Ken when he was in Biting Tongues. Bill played them a while ago. Small old world.
	7:15am Brian in UK: BILL, small request. Any chance of Talking Heads 'Burning Down the House' from Speaking in Tongues.(one of my pastimes!!) This should get everyone jumping in the kitchen as we prep dinner.
	8:05am Guido from Cologne: Good morning Bill! This is great! I will be listening mobile for half of the show and then have you as a soundtrack for cooking business. Which sounds go best along with frying noises? No easy task I guess ...
	8:57am Stanley: Here....hehe
	8:58am Brian in UK: IT'S A BILL MAC CHRISTMAS. STANLEY. What part of D&G are you staying?
	9:00am ?: BILL MAC CHRISTMAS is way better than BIG MAC CHRISTMAS
	9:00am Sem Chumbo: @Brian: re: Selby, Jr. I came to him as most people did, via Last Exit. But then I read The Room, which was to me at the time, a quantum leap from LETO, which, I think you'll agree, is other-wordly in every respect. Yes, to have known someone who worked closed with HS,jr,---an editor!---most amazing. Loved to have heard the stories. Challah: ya just gotta suck it up and make a couple and get the failures out of the way. Hey there, Stanley!
	9:02am Sem Chumbo: Morning, Bill.Top of the Season to you, and all the Hours.
	9:02am adrian in mpls: Shit, there's a yule log going on. That means it's really xmas. Morning everyone!!
	9:03am mkw: We're ready for some jammin' Christmas tunes here at home. Merry Christmas Bill Mac and everyone out there!!
	9:03am Brian in UK: @Sem Ken writes articles for The Wire if you are interested. Here is a link to his site. www.kenhollings.com
	9:04am Brian in UK: Hey Adrian. Have you got a steady gig to rest your head nowadays?
	9:05am Guido from Cologne: No mobile listening. Just went out and it started raining. So which music goes best along to frying noises? Albert Ayler or Abba?
	9:05am Sem Chumbo: Bookmarked with thanks, BiUK.
	9:05am Stanley: Hi Bill and friends. Me and the Vic are in Eskdalemuir the wettest and coldest place in Scotland but the sun is shining and so are we
	9:06am Brian in UK: @Guido Ethel the Aadvark Goes Quantity Surveying is a good start.
	9:06am Mrs. Sluggo: We're opening our presents now, and this is the perfect soundtrack. Thanks, DJ Bill Mac!
	9:07am adrian in mpls: @Brian - Yes! Thanks for asking! I lucked into the second floor of this house that the owner rents out via AirBNB during the summer months. I felt instantly at home once I moved in.
	9:08am Bill Mac: Hey everybody! Muhrrry Christmas all! Just dealing with catching up with clericals here, good to see folks here! Any mellified man left, folks?
	9:10am Brian in UK: Cannot wait for them to mature, Bill. Gonna have to take off my Christmas pudding onesie. That fire is sooooo warming.
	9:10am marmalade kitty: Merry Christmas Bill & all in woofmooland!
	9:12am Bill Mac: Wouldn't be xmas without MK!
	9:13am Guido from Cologne: Thanks BrianinUK! Hm, I was about to sell my Monty Python CDs. Now I must visit my garage.
	9:14am Chris M.: merry christmas Bill Mac and everyone
	9:15am Guido from Cologne: are there christmas organs in orbit?
	9:16am Bill Mac: Holiday visuals on playlist ... Thanks Mrs. Mac
	9:16am Brian in UK: Hey MK Sunshine over Whitefield?
	9:17am Sem Chumbo: Hiya, MK, ADRIAN!!, and Chris the M. Mellified Man coming up, wanna start with a few fingers, Bill?
	9:18am mkw: Love the Charlie Brown pic:)
	9:19am Brian in UK: Tubalicious.
	9:20am Bill Mac: I got family in the house, so mind your manners... Pants on, Brian - eh, or not....
	9:24am Guido from Cologne: What does a tropical christmas tree look like?
	9:25am adrian in mpls: Hey Sem!!!
	9:26am Bill Mac: @Guido - No skirt :)
	9:28am Brian in UK: That Jimmy Butler has essence of Big Joe Turner.
	9:29am Bill Mac: I would think they were contemporaries
	9:29am adrian in mpls: i wasn't aware of this "trim the tree" euphemism.....
	9:29am Sem Chumbo: @Stanley: after looking up your locale in Scotland, I am getting a decided Lasithi Plain vibe. Is Eskdalemuir in the mountains?
	9:32am adrian in mpls: I'm actually new to yr program, Bill! Happy to be here!
	9:33am Brian in UK: Hey hello chauffeur
	9:36am Bill Mac: Welcome Adrian!
	9:37am Bill Mac: Anyone start eating/drinking yet?
	9:37am Brian in UK: Adrian once you have been here you will not want to leave. The only problem is dragging your carcass awake at 3am on Saturdays.
	9:38am dale: perfect music for the morning. my yule log is all aglow.
	9:39am Brian in UK: Bill, turkey cooked, vegs on the way. Depressing thing is that by the time your show finishes it will be dark and I will be stuffed!! dale too much information?
	9:40am Bill Mac: Hiya Dale, don't be fooled by the fire, it's really warmed by the radiation coming off yr screen. Merry X (ray) Christmas!
	9:42am Grubbus: Merry Christmas WFMU family!
	9:42am Irene Trudel: Merry Christmas Bill! That Christmas in High Fidelity album by George Melachrino & Orchestra you talked over was my family's go-to Holiday album, complete with lots of scratches and skips. The orchestrations on some of the tunes are particularly nice. I used it the other night myself. Do you have a clean copy or has it been reissued? I'd love to find one for sentimental reasons. Hope you and Mrs. Mac have a Happy Krimble and a Veddy Goo Year!
	9:43am Bill Mac: @Brian Yeah, we've been discussing the location issue for years. The early one is more agreeable isn't it?
	9:45am marmalade kitty: any gayla peevey? :)
	9:45am Ken From Hyde Park: There was a leftover jug of coffee from work yesterday and I consumed it this morning. The jitters will soon be setting in.
	9:46am Bill Mac: Hi Irene, yeah sorry bout that... Doing things differently today. Rather than scads of vinyl/CDs to choose from I'm using pre-recorded stuff, not to mention that a guest = another mic to mind... They'll whisk me back to nights right after todays program
	9:47am mkw: Great to hear from both Macs this morning. Since you're both working so hard, you might get a few extra pierogies for dinner tonite.
	9:47am dale: that george melachrino had some strains of flintsones background music.
	9:48am Bill Mac: @mkw Ahhhh pierogies! Ima hold you to that!
	9:49am Stanley: People chatting too much now left me to enjoy myself, cooking and commenting
	9:50am Stanley: ...if I can work out how to operate this alien computer
	9:50am Bill Mac: I was hoping you'd stop by today Stanner. How's missus? You guys gonna be singing Proclaimers tunes somewheres this week?
	9:51am Irene Trudel: Oh, that's okay Bill. You deserve to take it easy with the rest of us today. But I am searching for a clean copy or CD of that particular album.
	9:55am Brian in UK: Happy Christmas Irene.
	9:56am dale: wow - i'll bet the folks who developed the see and say stole the idea from this song
	9:58am Bill Mac: @Dale - That's it! I hadn't fully reveiwed that song today - the animal imitations made me want to scratch my eyes out. But isn't that what Christmas is all about?
	10:02am adrian in mpls: Rootin Tootin! Definitely one of my favorite phrases.
	10:02am Greg from Bloomfield: Merry Krimble, gang! Thanks so much for taking care of us this morning, Bill!
	10:05am Erella: Love the music today. Thank you.
	10:06am Brian in UK: Man, is that just one hour. Scheeesh.
	10:08am Erella: Here are some more creepy santa images. www.teamjimmyjoe.com...
	10:09am Brian in UK: Was Loretta Young in the Bishops Wife? I loves Loretta Young.
	10:11am Bill Mac: @Brian - Another commonality we share... yowsers indeed...
	10:12am Brian in UK: Hell, this could be Monica's show. There is no bigger compliment, Bill.
	10:13am Erella: I love seeing Santa smoking. www.teamjimmyjoe.com...
	10:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Great to have you here Mr. Mac ! Season's Greetings to all FMUvians !! ...Gooned Up you say Sem?? Me - I'm walking backwards for Xmas: www.youtube.com...
	10:14am Bill Mac: @Brian I was kind of thinking the same thing. This show has received a bit of woman's help though... Tanks Ms Mac....
	10:16am Bill Mac: RR1163 - Hey man! Seasons Fleebers to you too!
	10:16am adrian in mpls: @Erella - smoking Santa is amazing! also, "it's toasted" has to be one of the great slogans.
	10:19am Stanley: Doing everything all at the same time but listening. keep it up Bill
	10:20am Bill Mac: @Stanley - That was me a 1/2 hour ago. I think I lost some weight.
	10:22am Sem Chumbo: Time for more challah/babka, Bill. Gotta keep your strength up...DJ'ing burns hundreds of calories a minute, all that brainwork!
	10:24am Bill Mac: Yo Sem, I figured you were busy making something! I could use some challah myself. There may be a nut roll in my future, but we'll see...
	10:25am Jeff: Hey, Bill - how great to hear you on while I'm awake! And thanks for playing stuff which won't freak out the in-laws.
	10:26am Snogubben Chumbo: Great first name. Dibs.
	10:27am Bill Mac: Yeah, I was thinking of a Butthole Surfers Christmas program. They do a fine, drunken cover of Good King Wenceslaus
	10:27am Jeff: By the way, I'm pretty sure my parents used to go to dances where Lester Lanin was playing. They're no longer available to ask about it, but I'm pretty sure I recall that detail.
	10:28am Bill Mac: Too bad, that type of information always becomes fascinating a little too late...
	10:29am Sem Chumbo: "In Finland, they do not have a word for "snow."" -Joe Orton. Pretty sure he was kidding.
	10:29am Guido from Cologne: Late 50ies Lester Lanin and Casa Loma: The eternal one-dollar-bin-residencials. No one want's it ... (Back from frying action)
	10:30am Jeff: Exactly. I have lots of questions, the answers to many of which I probably tuned out as a kid.
	10:32am Bill Mac: the way of the world. I was lucky enough to talk to my Grandmother about growing up in coal cracker country in upstate PA. Only 4 hours, but at least something.
	10:34am Sem Chumbo: Now there's an organ in orbit!
	10:35am Guido from Cologne: Booker T. in Xmas orbit
	10:39am dale: the song 'sisters' is actually all rosemary overdubbing herself.
	10:41am emile: Just tuning in - hey gang, hey Bill!
	10:45am Brian in UK: Time to scarf. Bon apertit tout le monde.
	10:46am adrian in mpls: enjoy, Brian!
	10:46am Bill Mac: Chew yr food...
	10:46am emile: So happy to have the coolest holiday music host on the wireless today. Goes well with a falafel kefta!
	10:48am Sem Chumbo: Lucky you, BiUK, hours to go before I eat. Enjoy your Christmas cracker crown.
	10:51am Bill Mac: @Emile Thanks Man.... falafel kefta... more yummy food.
	10:54am Sem Chumbo: Ah, Mrs. Mac is pitching Firesign Theatre weird and hitting the inside corner with that Youngster pix. Two thumbs up (thanks Siskel and Ebert for a cliché I can live with)
	10:56am adrian in mpls: i only need to hear a few seconds of this song to convince me to clicky-star it!
	10:57am mkw: Awkward and creepy Santa photos...keep'em comin'
	10:57am Bill Mac: They really are creepy renditions of St Nick. What dark recesses of the mind came up with these?
	10:57am Guido from Cologne: anyone background info about this track?
	10:59am Bill Mac: @guido I don't have much, but when we were compiling this stuff we came across another version of it with male singer and different title. I'll need to check around.
	11:01am mkw: Any Bravo Combo on your list - Santa's Polka perhaps?
	11:04am Guido from Cologne: anyway some bit. Thank you Bill.
	11:07am mkw: No problem bro...should have thought of it sooner...
	11:07am fred: Merry whatever folks. At this time of the year I'm usually stuck in the archives, but this show has proved entertaining enough to keep me on the stream for a while. Is there an official time when the station switches from Xmas songs to auld lang syne?
	11:09am Cooh John: Opening presents with a 5 year old
	11:10am Mrs. Sluggo: Does anyone else think that Mrs. Mac sounds a lot like Bronwyn C. It's uncanny!
	11:10am mkw: Mom's preparing the ham...waiting for first group of visitors to arrive.
	11:11am Stanley: Hi Bill and Maxine, finally got everything under control here in the kitchen built for aliens. A quick aperitif and its back to the spuds
	11:11am Bill Mac: @Mrs. Sluggo - She originates from Wisconsin doncha know.
	11:12am Bill Mac: @Cooh John - The best...
	11:16am Guido from Cologne: nice: Flirtations
	11:18am Mrs. Sluggo: @Bill Mac—Ah! That explains it! Also: Go Packers!
	11:18am Bill Mac: @Stanley It's definitely aperitif time at this point. Cheers!
	11:18am marmalade kitty: Why would anyone want an elephant or a hippo for christmas? really?
	11:19am Bill Mac: Next thing you know you need an elephant house... don't get me started on the litter box...
	11:22am animal planet: "I Want a Monkey for Christmas" - Barbary Coasters
	11:23am Pseu Braun: Merry, Happy Bill Mac!
	11:24am Bill Mac: I knew someone that had acquired a monkey as a kid. I think her parents paid cash money to have a picture taken with her. It's her Facebook profile pic.
	11:25am Sem Chumbo: Set a sweet Christmas tone around here, Bill. Thanks a-plenty.
	11:25am Mrs Stanley: Hi Bill and co., as for the Proclaimers, absolutely NOT I'm afraid
	11:25am fred: @Mrs Sluggo: That's a statement that might ruffle a few feathers in Motown this week
	11:26am Bill Mac: Hey Pseu, Merry Grampus! Joe let me play in the daylight. Whaddaya think about that. Love to Alex...
	11:26am Bill Mac: @Mrs. Stanley BOOOO!!!!
	11:31am SeanG: yowza
	11:32am adrian in mpls: va va va voom!
	11:33am mkw: You smell like beef and cheese - erin
	11:34am DeaconDave: Mac Attack!
	11:35am Bill Mac: @MKW Should be the subtitle of the show....
	11:35am Bill Mac: Hey hey Dan! Happy flibberty boo!
	11:35am Sem Chumbo: For your Kay Martin va-va-voom delectation: www.google.ca...
	11:36am common: happy happy everyone
	11:36am Brian in UK: Enjoy the resy of your day Mr & Mrs Mac. pianonecktie.wordpress.com...
	11:37am Brian in UK: Oh Santa what do you have in your sac?
	11:38am Stanley: Quick hello Brian. hope your day is going swell.
	11:39am adrian in mpls: @Sem - wow. that's a lot of va va. and a hell of a lot of voom
	11:39am Bill Mac: Hey Common!
	11:39am adrian in mpls: Hey Common! Merry Merry! Come join us around the fire
	11:40am John McCabe: sounds like Rod Rogers
	11:41am Brian in UK: Stanley. Completely stuffed. About to collapse in a heap and play silly games.Good luck with the cooking and foreign equipment.
	11:41am common: thanks adrian! who has the beer?
	11:42am Bill Mac: @Brian Triptophan coma time...
	11:43am Sem Chumbo: @ ADRIAN!!: you are most certainly welcome.
	11:43am Brian in UK: Great show and visuals, Bill 'n Maxine. Enjoy the rest of the day. Safe journey home. I got a good digestive to settle the stomach.
	11:44am Brian in UK: Hey Sem Have a great meal.
	11:45am Bill Mac: Happy Holiday all of you.... great and lively, what I expect. I'll see you around the place. Somebody burp Brian...
	11:45am Sem Chumbo: Thx, Brian. Been swell corresponding! Have yourself a good sit-down, and see ya later.
	11:47am Sem Chumbo: Nate K., are you listening?
	11:47am Brian in UK: Second round of present opening. BEGIN. I love SWELL.
	11:48am adrian in mpls: and i'm really happy that i've managed to hear xmas songs today that include lyrics about underwear and, now, tube socks
	11:51am Guido from Cologne: Thank you 4 accompany my cooking actions. Happy holidays and see you sometime soon again!
	11:51am adrian in mpls: there's no snow here - it's above freezing. i think an xmas bike ride is in order once this fine show is over
	11:51am Bill Mac: @Adrian You never have to hear another xmas song
	11:52am Ken From Hyde Park: One gift I received last night was a pumpkin bread. Glad it wasn't a dreaded fruit cake!
	11:52am Bill Mac: Adrian - not exactly a bad thing
	11:53am fred: That was a nice show, and thanks for the Holly Golightly track, always nice to hear her
	11:53am adrian in mpls: @Bill - just need an xmas song that talks about a codpiece :)
	11:54am Fran: Flying visit folks - hope you are all having a good Christmas ad best wishes for 2015. Wot no Three Stooges!!
	11:54am Stanley: Loved the selection, Its great to hear you back on the waves and do let us know when you come in again. Wishing you and Maxine the very best for Christmas and the New Year from me and the Missus.
	11:54am Brian in UK: @adrian we had some mackrel the other day. Any good?
	11:55am Bill Mac: Thanks all for coming Make the best of the new year will ya?!!!!
	11:56am adrian in mpls: Thanks Bill - it's been a wonderful few hours!
	11:56am Stanley: Fran - you remind me of the great prophet Zarg (did I get that right) from the reastaurant at the End of the Universe
	11:56am Brian in UK: Byeee everyone.
	11:56am Sem Chumbo: Bye, bye, all!
	11:57am Syd: Great show this morning. Come back on soon Bill
	11:57am adrian in mpls: @Brian - i'll start working on my "very fishy xmas" record right away
	11:57am Fran: Stanley -Ha!!Better than Dish of The Day I guess
	11:58am Stanley: Haha - catchya later Fran
	11:59am Fran: For sure Stanley
	12:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Happy New Year, Bill!
	9:08am Stanley: Haha - Its me Bill. Just played the whole show in my office on our last day before the holiday. A merry one to you and the missus.

Zzzzzzero Hour with Bill Mac: Playlist from December 25, 2014

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Lullabies and reveilles. Something for the late nighters and early risers.

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December 25, 2014: Put the Corn Back in the Yulelog - The Best Christmas Show!

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Dimitri Tiomkin & His Orchestra;	It's A Wonderful Life Overture	Check out Zzzzzzero Hour's 2010 Christmas Special
Blue Barron And His Orchestra, Vocal By The Blue Notes	Red Cheeks And White Whiskers		0:03:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Sun Tones	The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot		0:04:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pete Rugolo And His Orchestra	Jingle Bells Mambo		0:08:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Conlons Jud Rhythmaires	The Merry Christmas Polka		0:11:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Betty Lloyd	Snowflakes "Snowflakes" by "Betty Lloyd"		0:13:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Three Suns	Ding Dong Dandy Christmas		0:17:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Davis Sisters	The Christmas Boogie		0:20:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Les Paul/Mary Ford	Jungle Bells "Jungle Bells" by "Les Paul/Mary Ford"		0:22:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jimmy Butler	Trim Your Tree "Trim Your Tree" by "Jimmy Butler"		0:24:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ben Light and his Surf Club Boys	Christmas Balls		0:26:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Esquivel	"Esquivel"	Merry Xmas from the Space Age Bachelor Pad Music	0:28:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George Melachrino And His Orchestra	Fairy On The Christmas Tree		0:36:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Peggy Lee	Happy Holiday "Happy Holiday" by "Peggy Lee"		0:37:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bill Lacey	Cowboy Santa Claus "Cowboy Santa Claus" by "Bill Lacey"		0:38:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Brenda Lee	I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus		0:41:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dean Martin	The Christmas Blues "The Christmas Blues" by "Dean Martin"		0:43:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Marguerite Trina	The Rocking Tree		0:46:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Louie Armstrong	Zat You Santa Claus		0:48:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Merry Macs	Christmas Cha Cha "Christmas Cha Cha" by "The Merry Macs"		0:51:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
McGuire Sisters	The Cactus Christmas Tree		0:53:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Loretta Lynn	To Heck With Santa Claus		0:56:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Joe Poovey	Santa's Helper "Santa's Helper" by "Joe Poovey"		0:58:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pee Wee King	Rootin Tootin Santa Claus		1:00:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Julie London	Warm December "Warm December" by "Julie London"		1:10:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Caroleer Singers	Icicles, Holly, Red Berries And Snow		1:11:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mike Douglas	Touch Hands on Christmas Morning	Check out Zzzzzzero Hour's 2010 Christmas Special	1:14:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lester Lanin & His Orchestra	Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies		1:16:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ralph Stanley	Snow Covered Mound "Snow Covered Mound" by "Ralph Stanley"		1:19:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Ray Conniff Singers	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen		1:24:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Margret Jonsson	Snogubben Froste "Snogubben Froste" by "Margret Jonsson"		1:25:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Rosemary Clooney	Snow "Snow" by "Rosemary Clooney"		1:27:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Huey Piano Smith & the Clowns	Silent Night		1:29:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Booker T & the MGs	Jingle Bells "Jingle Bells" by "Booker T & the MGs"		1:32:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	a song	Merry Xmas from the Space Age Bachelor Pad Music	1:36:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sugar Chile Robinson	Christmas Boogie		1:42:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Marquees	Christmas in the Congo		1:44:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Youngsters	Christmas in Jail "Christmas in Jail" by "The Youngsters"		1:46:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pearl Bailey	A Five Pound Box of Money		1:48:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ike & Tina Turner	Merry Christmas Baby		1:51:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Surfers	Here Comes Santa in a Red Canoe		1:53:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Patsy Raye	Beatniks Wish "Beatniks Wish" by "Patsy Raye"		1:55:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Louis Prima	Senor Santa Claus "Senor Santa Claus" by "Louis Prima"		1:57:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Saturdays Children	Christmas Sounds		2:00:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	a song	Merry Xmas from the Space Age Bachelor Pad Music	2:02:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
the J's With Jamie	Cool Yule "Cool Yule" by "the J's With Jamie"		2:09:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Wayne King and His Orchestra	Jing a Ling		2:11:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Hank Thompson	I'd Like to Have an Elephant for Christmas		2:12:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Flirtations	Christmas Time is Here Again		2:14:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Fats Domino	Frosty the Snowman "Frosty the Snowman" by "Fats Domino"		2:18:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lawrence Welk	Outer Space Santa "Outer Space Santa" by "Lawrence Welk"		2:21:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Gus De Wert Trio	Space Age Santa Claus		2:24:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kay Martin	Santa's Doing the Horizontal Twist		2:26:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kay Martin	Come on Santa Let's Have a Ball		2:29:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	a song	Merry Xmas from the Space Age Bachelor Pad Music	2:30:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jimmy Wakely	It's Christmas "It's Christmas" by "Jimmy Wakely"		2:35:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cordell Jackson	Rock and Roll Christmas		2:35:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Gus Colletti	Santa Superman "Santa Superman" by "Gus Colletti"		2:38:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tennessee Ernie Ford	Christmas Dinner		2:40:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Whales	The Chipmunk Song "The Chipmunk Song" by "The Whales"		2:43:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Holly Golightly	Christmas Tree on Fire		2:45:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Superions	Fruitcake "Fruitcake" by "The Superions"		2:47:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Singing Loins	Ding Dong Merrily on High		2:51:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Sweetback Sisters	Santa Claus Got Stuck in the Chimney	Check out Zzzzzzero Hour's 2010 Christmas Special	2:53:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Julian Koster	We Wish You a Merry Christmas		2:54:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12/23 8:20am Sem Chumbo: I can feel the warmth for here. Hiya, Bill. All gooned up for the holidays, I presume? gooned up= local patois for "everything in hand, time to kick back."
	12/23 10:12am Sem Chumbo: While in Europe, where some producers of fruit in a bottle of liqueur use two part bottles, the company I help out with starts with actual fruit trees hung with un-tricked-out bottles. Identifying blossoms at the end of suitable branches, we wait for the flower to be fertilized and a proto-fruit to identify itself. At this point, we slip a 750ml bottle over branch, securing the bottle in a cradle. And then, as Mr. Plow, aka, Homer Simpson says, "We play the waiting game." By and by, and if fire blight, insects, sun scald and the thousand other slings and arrows a pear is heir to, do no damage, and the pear is cosmetically suitable, it is cut from the mother branch, stem intact. Then the bottle is filled with pear eau de vie, which we also make. Eau de vie, known around our shop as refined moonshine is 40% ABV and as such proves an excellent preservative. Such was the case demonstrated, I think, with Admiral Nelson after the Battle of Trafalgar, when his corpse was sent home in a cask of spirits, to no discernible ill-effect. Whether or not he was toasted with glasses of his very own infusion upon arrival on that sceptred isle is yet a matter of scholarly dispute. We started this season with 425 bottles in the trees. Blew through Hurricane Arthur on July 5th taking a mighty toll, then a long dangerous summer fraught with pear peril. By the end of September, we had 173 finished bottles, each in its own clear pine box, and accompanied by the story above, more or less--minus the Nelson stuff. And this is why, Bill, a delicious pear brandy, a preserved fruit, a great story and a lovely handmade, in Nova Scotia, I might add, box, we charge $125 CDN. I personally get $25 for every one I sell, because I repeat this story hundreds of times before that happens:-) And I take considerable liberties with it, and perhaps this is why my success rate is so low but my pleasure increases with each re-telling. This story is my Christmas gift to you, Bill, and the Zzzzzzzero Hour faithful. Gods bless you, one and all, if the Fates allow.
	12/23 11:13am Brian in UK: Well Sem I can only say if I was in your manor I would purloin a bottle of said eau de vie. I still have a splash left of a poire William bottle from the last trip to Paris. I loves eau de vie. Settles the stomach wonderfully after a snorting feed. Love the description, the bottle I had was just clear liquid. We do make sloe gin and various fruit flavoured vodkas. Sad to say we do not distill them. Got to get back into mid season drinking form as I have been abstaining due to this impacted wisdom tooth (now extracted).
	12/23 12:15pm Bill Mac: You both make me want to drop everything I'm doing with my life and start a new one! I miss our talks about fine booze, and both of you are creating libations. So long as paying skills like phlebotomy can fund your passions it sounds like you can be way happy. Love the fruit in a bottle of liqueur tome - the topic became one of the recurring themes of our weekly jib-jab along with Brians hasty exits to walk the dog and feed the chickens. Sem, I just reread and comprehended the preservative part of your story. Reminds me of another story I read about honey infused Egyptians that weren't ready for consumption until they cured for a century. To drop in yet another Homerism - "mmmmm - honey infused Egyptians...." Brian - Hope your molar hole clears up before the festivities begin - maybe you start could earlier.
	12/23 12:22pm Bill Mac: @Sem "Gooned up" indeed! Doing my first show in a month, and a bunch of days away from the old grind... I'm ready...
	12/23 12:58pm Sem Chumbo: @Bill: well, as a connoisseur of marginalia and arcana, I confess my pure ignorance of Mellification, apart from the fact that mel derives from the Greek, for sweet. But this! Jesus. 木乃伊, [MUNAIYI]. HUMAN MUMMY CONFECTION Li [Shizhen]: According to 陶九成 [Tao Jiucheng] in the 輟耕錄 [Chuogenglu "Record after retiring from plowing"], it says in Arabia there are men 70 to 80 years old who are willing to give their bodies to save others. The subject does not eat food, he only bathes and partakes of honey. After a month he only excretes honey (the urine and feces are entirely honey) and death follows. His fellow men place him in a stone coffin full of honey in which he macerates. The date is put upon the coffin giving the year and month. After a hundred years the seals are removed. A confection is formed which is used for the treatment of broken and wounded limbs. A small amount taken internally will immediately cure the complaint. It is scarce in Arabia where it is called mellified man. Mr. [Tao] has recorded it in this way but Li [Shizhen] the author of this [Bencao] does not know whether it is true so he is recording it for others to verify.[2] While there will be guests here Christmas Day, and cooking for them is part of my duties, I have reserved 10-1 in order to hear ZH in its entirety, and I guess, live. I can say with certainty that the Christmas dishes I prepare will be totally Mellified Man-free, though there may be traces of tree or ground nut, soy, milk, egg, wheat, rice, marshmallow Fluff, Spam, bologna boat, toad in the hole, and MSG. Very much looking forward to your spins!
	12/23 1:58pm Brian in UK: That fire sure is warming. I completely misread macerates for a similar word, changed your whole story, Sem. Just been to the market and bought some Wild Halibut, bit pricey but heck. Cue the old joke Bill. Was it wild, well it was none too pleased. Timing not so great over here, we try and eat by the time it gets dark, around four, so hoping to catch the early part of the show. Might be time to get libating.
	12/23 2:22pm Bill Mac: Way to go! Two days before showtime and we're already talking about Candied Andy (no offense to Andy in Berlin!) Mary Roach wrote a book called 'Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers' that goes into just that, touching on the topic of Mellified Man. I find the description of it being 'scarce' a little bit disconcerting. Think there's still a culture of this happening somewhere?
	12/23 2:29pm Bill Mac: @Brian Yeah unfortunately I realize that the days' activities are already in full gear over there. We'll catch up. BTW thanks for writing this week. I was thinking of the collective crew earlier this week when I was wondering whether I was already turning into a 'lazy lopis' (as dear departed father would sometimes refer tome as), specifically come recent Saturday mornings. Hope everyone is hanging in.
	12/23 3:08pm Sem Chumbo: Near the end of Trouble's show today, there was an excerpt of Dylan Thomas reading from A Child's Christmas in Wales. I offer you a few moments of Canadiana, from a pretty funny guy, Howard Engel, who has a quite an amazing story himself (en.wikipedia.orgwiki/Howard_Engel) So, his take on ACCiW www.msgr.ca...
	12/23 3:50pm Brian in UK: Sem, first link non starter, as you can see it is not all highlighted. Bill, at least your old man had a sense of humour, mine kept his well hidden. I take everything seriously and nothing seriously. Working in a hospital you have to be able to invoked the humour in anything, which I do not find the least bit difficult. Buck, buck Number 1.
	12/23 3:56pm Sem Chumbo: revision: en.wikipedia.org... Thanks, Brian, let my proofreading eyes in my other life.
	12/23 3:58pm Sem Chumbo: left See what I mean?
	12/23 9:10pm Bill Mac: @Brian - Well, you're certainly a student of a lot of what I would consider funny, and a lot more that I don't quite get when it happens to squirt out on the chat during showtime. I think taking everything seriously and nothing seriously leaves you with a good combination to make you a good listener and conversationalist. I'm in healthcare myself, but not on the clinical side, which is a totally different head than from where I'm at.
	12/23 9:14pm Bill Mac: @Sem So what you're saying is that Howard Engel may not be able to read what he writes.
	12/23 9:23pm Bill Mac: @Sem All I can say is I wish I could write like that.
	12/24 6:25am Sem Chumbo: Good morning, Bill. Brining a turkey for roasting tomorrow, making a raw cranberry/celery/sweet onion/wild honey salad to marinate for a day, bread slow-rising, and slow-cooking a honey-ham (225F). (Is this the mellified Christmas menu or what?) I am SO looking forward to the show tomorrow. Hope all is well where you are.
	12/24 6:42am Brian in UK: Dylan Thomas' Childs Christmas is good but never reaches the heights of Under Milk Wood. The quality of the words have a narcotic effect in as much as you have to keep returning for another fix of semantics. Sem sounds good. The word brining crops up a lot in Thanksgiving & Christmas cooking. My wife will be makng a turkey & ham pie on Friday. Hmmmm. Fruit salad making this afternoon after work. That fire really does give out some heat. I did consider a barbecue for a Christmas present. Persoanally I cannot stand how there are used over here. Cheap burgers & sausages burnt to buggery. Never cooked on one before, might try my luck this year.
	12/24 7:07am Sem Chumbo: burnt to buggery: man, the English really have a way with the language. Good day, Brian. Off to the market on foot. More later.
	12:31pm Sem Chumbo: @Brian: I catered a small rural wedding for 40 last summer, at the organic farm of the bride's parents. Their own chicken and lamb were on the menu, and I cooked them in a pair of gigantic bar-b-ques. Preserved lemon and tarragon chicken, 2-day marinated lamb (much, much garlic, preserved lemon and a stupid amount of rosemary.) 275F for 4 hours (10 pound meat birds, and a pair of legs from a Lambosaurus Rex.) Beautiful heat control and a fine result. Quick and hot is too hard to control, low and slow is the way to go, in my opinion.
	1:11pm Brian in UK: I like the idea of cooking say chicken in a barby queue. Anchovies go well in lamb too. I have my eye on a Weber as the hood seems to allow for a kind of convection effect. I would like to cook fish on open heat too. It just seems such a waste of energy to not use all coals fully. I need to practice but in order to practice I need to have one. That meal sounded good.
	2:49pm Bill Mac: I'm more impressed by the phrase 'quality of the words have a narcotic effect'. It's exactly what I would have preferred to say if my fluency with the Kings' way of expressing myself wasn't limited to grunting and flashing the "thumbs up" when I'm asked to comment on something.
	3:11pm Bill Mac: If I had any sense I would organize a foodie junket and do a couple live shows from somewheres in the UK and somewheres in Nova Scotia (nudge nudge) We're still cleaning up drool puddles der missus left when she read tomorrows menu. When should we be there?
	3:19pm Sem Chumbo: Swing by any time, most of the work is already done. I'll tell you, the big highlight of the past month has been a little old Ashkenazi lady here (Lower East Side emigree, doncha know) who schooled me in challah/babka. Yep, sweet, yeast-risen challah dough, then the three braids rolled out flat and covered in bittersweet chocolate, cinnamon and brown sugar, then rolled up and braided. Needless to say there is plenty of butter, egg yolks, powdered sugar and such like involved. The result is divine. Paramedics will be standing by tomorrow with the de-fib paddles:-D
	3:34pm Bill Mac: Don't ruin this by reminding me of the consequences! You're killing me from here! We gotta move there.
	5:15pm Sem Chumbo: Well, it is not all lobster tails and every Sunday night free at the seraglio here. We locals often, in desperate times, live off the land: scarfing down apparently unowned and poorly hidden raw scallops on the run, cooking decent night-jacked venison under the cover of the smell of bootleg distilling, and as frequently as he is away, dining on the next door neighbours' sheep and chickens. We are still the highest taxed province in the country, with the biggest per capita debt, some roads which would easily translate into Six Flags rides, and own a stubborn, conservative, xenophobic, and often racist streak which would be right at home in deepest Mississippi. We have enough Irish and Scots genes here to infect us with a fatalist high humour which nothing but a coal mine disaster or half a dozen guys lost at sea can even momentarily dampen. As Brian wrote earlier, there is a certain equanimity (I paraphrase, take everything seriously/nothing seriously) in-bred here, taking the rough with the smooth you might say. Like the old joke (I heard it in Budapest), about Hungarian pessimists: "Things can't get any worse." Hungarian optimist: "Yes, they can!" Living in Nova Scotia is like that, and it is only the young who move away, trying to take the geographical cure for life, only to find it the same wherever they go. They come back, or at least no matter where they wind up living or for how long, when asked where they live, they name the place but they always say," I'm a Nova Scotian." This has not been lifted from the Provincial "So You Want to Live Here, eh" Guide to Immigration for Come from Aways, just so you know this is one man's opinion only. A highly esteemed man, yes, but still, just one man:-P
	4:24am Brian in UK: Well Sem we are living on a mighty mutlicultural island right now, was it ever thus. This country is remarkably open to new faces, ideas and thoughts. Anyway, HAPPY CHRISTMAS. It is a beautiful clear skied sunny day here. Bit of a frost last night. Chickens fed, turkey about to enter it's last resting place. Going to walk Spencer in the woods and collect youngest daughter. All three will be back in the nest soon. Then everything will be TICKERTY BOO.
	6:11am Sem Chumbo: Good on your Brian, it sounds as though you have this day well in hand. Tickerty boo, indeed. Still hear that around here, where there was an RCN training base for over fifty years, and the Brits were thick on the ground, once they pushed the Irish out of the way to make room. A Merry Christmas to you, as well.
	7:13am Brian in UK: Sem, that challah sounds wonderful. I am lazy and just make bread in a machine. Is it complicated. By the way, my favourite Hubert Selby Jnr. is The Demon. It fair took me aback when I first read it. Not had time to read all your personal missive will do in the fullness etc. I was surprised when reading The Willow Tree that he mentioned Ken Hollings and thanked him for his support and editing skills. I used to know Ken when he was in Biting Tongues. Bill played them a while ago. Small old world.
	7:15am Brian in UK: BILL, small request. Any chance of Talking Heads 'Burning Down the House' from Speaking in Tongues.(one of my pastimes!!) This should get everyone jumping in the kitchen as we prep dinner.
	8:05am Guido from Cologne: Good morning Bill! This is great! I will be listening mobile for half of the show and then have you as a soundtrack for cooking business. Which sounds go best along with frying noises? No easy task I guess ...
	8:57am Stanley: Here....hehe
	8:58am Brian in UK: IT'S A BILL MAC CHRISTMAS. STANLEY. What part of D&G are you staying?
	9:00am ?: BILL MAC CHRISTMAS is way better than BIG MAC CHRISTMAS
	9:00am Sem Chumbo: @Brian: re: Selby, Jr. I came to him as most people did, via Last Exit. But then I read The Room, which was to me at the time, a quantum leap from LETO, which, I think you'll agree, is other-wordly in every respect. Yes, to have known someone who worked closed with HS,jr,---an editor!---most amazing. Loved to have heard the stories. Challah: ya just gotta suck it up and make a couple and get the failures out of the way. Hey there, Stanley!
	9:02am Sem Chumbo: Morning, Bill.Top of the Season to you, and all the Hours.
	9:02am adrian in mpls: Shit, there's a yule log going on. That means it's really xmas. Morning everyone!!
	9:03am mkw: We're ready for some jammin' Christmas tunes here at home. Merry Christmas Bill Mac and everyone out there!!
	9:03am Brian in UK: @Sem Ken writes articles for The Wire if you are interested. Here is a link to his site. www.kenhollings.com
	9:04am Brian in UK: Hey Adrian. Have you got a steady gig to rest your head nowadays?
	9:05am Guido from Cologne: No mobile listening. Just went out and it started raining. So which music goes best along to frying noises? Albert Ayler or Abba?
	9:05am Sem Chumbo: Bookmarked with thanks, BiUK.
	9:05am Stanley: Hi Bill and friends. Me and the Vic are in Eskdalemuir the wettest and coldest place in Scotland but the sun is shining and so are we
	9:06am Brian in UK: @Guido Ethel the Aadvark Goes Quantity Surveying is a good start.
	9:06am Mrs. Sluggo: We're opening our presents now, and this is the perfect soundtrack. Thanks, DJ Bill Mac!
	9:07am adrian in mpls: @Brian - Yes! Thanks for asking! I lucked into the second floor of this house that the owner rents out via AirBNB during the summer months. I felt instantly at home once I moved in.
	9:08am Bill Mac: Hey everybody! Muhrrry Christmas all! Just dealing with catching up with clericals here, good to see folks here! Any mellified man left, folks?
	9:10am Brian in UK: Cannot wait for them to mature, Bill. Gonna have to take off my Christmas pudding onesie. That fire is sooooo warming.
	9:10am marmalade kitty: Merry Christmas Bill & all in woofmooland!
	9:12am Bill Mac: Wouldn't be xmas without MK!
	9:13am Guido from Cologne: Thanks BrianinUK! Hm, I was about to sell my Monty Python CDs. Now I must visit my garage.
	9:14am Chris M.: merry christmas Bill Mac and everyone
	9:15am Guido from Cologne: are there christmas organs in orbit?
	9:16am Bill Mac: Holiday visuals on playlist ... Thanks Mrs. Mac
	9:16am Brian in UK: Hey MK Sunshine over Whitefield?
	9:17am Sem Chumbo: Hiya, MK, ADRIAN!!, and Chris the M. Mellified Man coming up, wanna start with a few fingers, Bill?
	9:18am mkw: Love the Charlie Brown pic:)
	9:19am Brian in UK: Tubalicious.
	9:20am Bill Mac: I got family in the house, so mind your manners... Pants on, Brian - eh, or not....
	9:24am Guido from Cologne: What does a tropical christmas tree look like?
	9:25am adrian in mpls: Hey Sem!!!
	9:26am Bill Mac: @Guido - No skirt :)
	9:28am Brian in UK: That Jimmy Butler has essence of Big Joe Turner.
	9:29am Bill Mac: I would think they were contemporaries
	9:29am adrian in mpls: i wasn't aware of this "trim the tree" euphemism.....
	9:29am Sem Chumbo: @Stanley: after looking up your locale in Scotland, I am getting a decided Lasithi Plain vibe. Is Eskdalemuir in the mountains?
	9:32am adrian in mpls: I'm actually new to yr program, Bill! Happy to be here!
	9:33am Brian in UK: Hey hello chauffeur
	9:36am Bill Mac: Welcome Adrian!
	9:37am Bill Mac: Anyone start eating/drinking yet?
	9:37am Brian in UK: Adrian once you have been here you will not want to leave. The only problem is dragging your carcass awake at 3am on Saturdays.
	9:38am dale: perfect music for the morning. my yule log is all aglow.
	9:39am Brian in UK: Bill, turkey cooked, vegs on the way. Depressing thing is that by the time your show finishes it will be dark and I will be stuffed!! dale too much information?
	9:40am Bill Mac: Hiya Dale, don't be fooled by the fire, it's really warmed by the radiation coming off yr screen. Merry X (ray) Christmas!
	9:42am Grubbus: Merry Christmas WFMU family!
	9:42am Irene Trudel: Merry Christmas Bill! That Christmas in High Fidelity album by George Melachrino & Orchestra you talked over was my family's go-to Holiday album, complete with lots of scratches and skips. The orchestrations on some of the tunes are particularly nice. I used it the other night myself. Do you have a clean copy or has it been reissued? I'd love to find one for sentimental reasons. Hope you and Mrs. Mac have a Happy Krimble and a Veddy Goo Year!
	9:43am Bill Mac: @Brian Yeah, we've been discussing the location issue for years. The early one is more agreeable isn't it?
	9:45am marmalade kitty: any gayla peevey? :)
	9:45am Ken From Hyde Park: There was a leftover jug of coffee from work yesterday and I consumed it this morning. The jitters will soon be setting in.
	9:46am Bill Mac: Hi Irene, yeah sorry bout that... Doing things differently today. Rather than scads of vinyl/CDs to choose from I'm using pre-recorded stuff, not to mention that a guest = another mic to mind... They'll whisk me back to nights right after todays program
	9:47am mkw: Great to hear from both Macs this morning. Since you're both working so hard, you might get a few extra pierogies for dinner tonite.
	9:47am dale: that george melachrino had some strains of flintsones background music.
	9:48am Bill Mac: @mkw Ahhhh pierogies! Ima hold you to that!
	9:49am Stanley: People chatting too much now left me to enjoy myself, cooking and commenting
	9:50am Stanley: ...if I can work out how to operate this alien computer
	9:50am Bill Mac: I was hoping you'd stop by today Stanner. How's missus? You guys gonna be singing Proclaimers tunes somewheres this week?
	9:51am Irene Trudel: Oh, that's okay Bill. You deserve to take it easy with the rest of us today. But I am searching for a clean copy or CD of that particular album.
	9:55am Brian in UK: Happy Christmas Irene.
	9:56am dale: wow - i'll bet the folks who developed the see and say stole the idea from this song
	9:58am Bill Mac: @Dale - That's it! I hadn't fully reveiwed that song today - the animal imitations made me want to scratch my eyes out. But isn't that what Christmas is all about?
	10:02am adrian in mpls: Rootin Tootin! Definitely one of my favorite phrases.
	10:02am Greg from Bloomfield: Merry Krimble, gang! Thanks so much for taking care of us this morning, Bill!
	10:05am Erella: Love the music today. Thank you.
	10:06am Brian in UK: Man, is that just one hour. Scheeesh.
	10:08am Erella: Here are some more creepy santa images. www.teamjimmyjoe.com...
	10:09am Brian in UK: Was Loretta Young in the Bishops Wife? I loves Loretta Young.
	10:11am Bill Mac: @Brian - Another commonality we share... yowsers indeed...
	10:12am Brian in UK: Hell, this could be Monica's show. There is no bigger compliment, Bill.
	10:13am Erella: I love seeing Santa smoking. www.teamjimmyjoe.com...
	10:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Great to have you here Mr. Mac ! Season's Greetings to all FMUvians !! ...Gooned Up you say Sem?? Me - I'm walking backwards for Xmas: www.youtube.com...
	10:14am Bill Mac: @Brian I was kind of thinking the same thing. This show has received a bit of woman's help though... Tanks Ms Mac....
	10:16am Bill Mac: RR1163 - Hey man! Seasons Fleebers to you too!
	10:16am adrian in mpls: @Erella - smoking Santa is amazing! also, "it's toasted" has to be one of the great slogans.
	10:19am Stanley: Doing everything all at the same time but listening. keep it up Bill
	10:20am Bill Mac: @Stanley - That was me a 1/2 hour ago. I think I lost some weight.
	10:22am Sem Chumbo: Time for more challah/babka, Bill. Gotta keep your strength up...DJ'ing burns hundreds of calories a minute, all that brainwork!
	10:24am Bill Mac: Yo Sem, I figured you were busy making something! I could use some challah myself. There may be a nut roll in my future, but we'll see...
	10:25am Jeff: Hey, Bill - how great to hear you on while I'm awake! And thanks for playing stuff which won't freak out the in-laws.
	10:26am Snogubben Chumbo: Great first name. Dibs.
	10:27am Bill Mac: Yeah, I was thinking of a Butthole Surfers Christmas program. They do a fine, drunken cover of Good King Wenceslaus
	10:27am Jeff: By the way, I'm pretty sure my parents used to go to dances where Lester Lanin was playing. They're no longer available to ask about it, but I'm pretty sure I recall that detail.
	10:28am Bill Mac: Too bad, that type of information always becomes fascinating a little too late...
	10:29am Sem Chumbo: "In Finland, they do not have a word for "snow."" -Joe Orton. Pretty sure he was kidding.
	10:29am Guido from Cologne: Late 50ies Lester Lanin and Casa Loma: The eternal one-dollar-bin-residencials. No one want's it ... (Back from frying action)
	10:30am Jeff: Exactly. I have lots of questions, the answers to many of which I probably tuned out as a kid.
	10:32am Bill Mac: the way of the world. I was lucky enough to talk to my Grandmother about growing up in coal cracker country in upstate PA. Only 4 hours, but at least something.
	10:34am Sem Chumbo: Now there's an organ in orbit!
	10:35am Guido from Cologne: Booker T. in Xmas orbit
	10:39am dale: the song 'sisters' is actually all rosemary overdubbing herself.
	10:41am emile: Just tuning in - hey gang, hey Bill!
	10:45am Brian in UK: Time to scarf. Bon apertit tout le monde.
	10:46am adrian in mpls: enjoy, Brian!
	10:46am Bill Mac: Chew yr food...
	10:46am emile: So happy to have the coolest holiday music host on the wireless today. Goes well with a falafel kefta!
	10:48am Sem Chumbo: Lucky you, BiUK, hours to go before I eat. Enjoy your Christmas cracker crown.
	10:51am Bill Mac: @Emile Thanks Man.... falafel kefta... more yummy food.
	10:54am Sem Chumbo: Ah, Mrs. Mac is pitching Firesign Theatre weird and hitting the inside corner with that Youngster pix. Two thumbs up (thanks Siskel and Ebert for a cliché I can live with)
	10:56am adrian in mpls: i only need to hear a few seconds of this song to convince me to clicky-star it!
	10:57am mkw: Awkward and creepy Santa photos...keep'em comin'
	10:57am Bill Mac: They really are creepy renditions of St Nick. What dark recesses of the mind came up with these?
	10:57am Guido from Cologne: anyone background info about this track?
	10:59am Bill Mac: @guido I don't have much, but when we were compiling this stuff we came across another version of it with male singer and different title. I'll need to check around.
	11:01am mkw: Any Bravo Combo on your list - Santa's Polka perhaps?
	11:04am Guido from Cologne: anyway some bit. Thank you Bill.
	11:07am mkw: No problem bro...should have thought of it sooner...
	11:07am fred: Merry whatever folks. At this time of the year I'm usually stuck in the archives, but this show has proved entertaining enough to keep me on the stream for a while. Is there an official time when the station switches from Xmas songs to auld lang syne?
	11:09am Cooh John: Opening presents with a 5 year old
	11:10am Mrs. Sluggo: Does anyone else think that Mrs. Mac sounds a lot like Bronwyn C. It's uncanny!
	11:10am mkw: Mom's preparing the ham...waiting for first group of visitors to arrive.
	11:11am Stanley: Hi Bill and Maxine, finally got everything under control here in the kitchen built for aliens. A quick aperitif and its back to the spuds
	11:11am Bill Mac: @Mrs. Sluggo - She originates from Wisconsin doncha know.
	11:12am Bill Mac: @Cooh John - The best...
	11:16am Guido from Cologne: nice: Flirtations
	11:18am Mrs. Sluggo: @Bill Mac—Ah! That explains it! Also: Go Packers!
	11:18am Bill Mac: @Stanley It's definitely aperitif time at this point. Cheers!
	11:18am marmalade kitty: Why would anyone want an elephant or a hippo for christmas? really?
	11:19am Bill Mac: Next thing you know you need an elephant house... don't get me started on the litter box...
	11:22am animal planet: "I Want a Monkey for Christmas" - Barbary Coasters
	11:23am Pseu Braun: Merry, Happy Bill Mac!
	11:24am Bill Mac: I knew someone that had acquired a monkey as a kid. I think her parents paid cash money to have a picture taken with her. It's her Facebook profile pic.
	11:25am Sem Chumbo: Set a sweet Christmas tone around here, Bill. Thanks a-plenty.
	11:25am Mrs Stanley: Hi Bill and co., as for the Proclaimers, absolutely NOT I'm afraid
	11:25am fred: @Mrs Sluggo: That's a statement that might ruffle a few feathers in Motown this week
	11:26am Bill Mac: Hey Pseu, Merry Grampus! Joe let me play in the daylight. Whaddaya think about that. Love to Alex...
	11:26am Bill Mac: @Mrs. Stanley BOOOO!!!!
	11:31am SeanG: yowza
	11:32am adrian in mpls: va va va voom!
	11:33am mkw: You smell like beef and cheese - erin
	11:34am DeaconDave: Mac Attack!
	11:35am Bill Mac: @MKW Should be the subtitle of the show....
	11:35am Bill Mac: Hey hey Dan! Happy flibberty boo!
	11:35am Sem Chumbo: For your Kay Martin va-va-voom delectation: www.google.ca...
	11:36am common: happy happy everyone
	11:36am Brian in UK: Enjoy the resy of your day Mr & Mrs Mac. pianonecktie.wordpress.com...
	11:37am Brian in UK: Oh Santa what do you have in your sac?
	11:38am Stanley: Quick hello Brian. hope your day is going swell.
	11:39am adrian in mpls: @Sem - wow. that's a lot of va va. and a hell of a lot of voom
	11:39am Bill Mac: Hey Common!
	11:39am adrian in mpls: Hey Common! Merry Merry! Come join us around the fire
	11:40am John McCabe: sounds like Rod Rogers
	11:41am Brian in UK: Stanley. Completely stuffed. About to collapse in a heap and play silly games.Good luck with the cooking and foreign equipment.
	11:41am common: thanks adrian! who has the beer?
	11:42am Bill Mac: @Brian Triptophan coma time...
	11:43am Sem Chumbo: @ ADRIAN!!: you are most certainly welcome.
	11:43am Brian in UK: Great show and visuals, Bill 'n Maxine. Enjoy the rest of the day. Safe journey home. I got a good digestive to settle the stomach.
	11:44am Brian in UK: Hey Sem Have a great meal.
	11:45am Bill Mac: Happy Holiday all of you.... great and lively, what I expect. I'll see you around the place. Somebody burp Brian...
	11:45am Sem Chumbo: Thx, Brian. Been swell corresponding! Have yourself a good sit-down, and see ya later.
	11:47am Sem Chumbo: Nate K., are you listening?
	11:47am Brian in UK: Second round of present opening. BEGIN. I love SWELL.
	11:48am adrian in mpls: and i'm really happy that i've managed to hear xmas songs today that include lyrics about underwear and, now, tube socks
	11:51am Guido from Cologne: Thank you 4 accompany my cooking actions. Happy holidays and see you sometime soon again!
	11:51am adrian in mpls: there's no snow here - it's above freezing. i think an xmas bike ride is in order once this fine show is over
	11:51am Bill Mac: @Adrian You never have to hear another xmas song
	11:52am Ken From Hyde Park: One gift I received last night was a pumpkin bread. Glad it wasn't a dreaded fruit cake!
	11:52am Bill Mac: Adrian - not exactly a bad thing
	11:53am fred: That was a nice show, and thanks for the Holly Golightly track, always nice to hear her
	11:53am adrian in mpls: @Bill - just need an xmas song that talks about a codpiece :)
	11:54am Fran: Flying visit folks - hope you are all having a good Christmas ad best wishes for 2015. Wot no Three Stooges!!
	11:54am Stanley: Loved the selection, Its great to hear you back on the waves and do let us know when you come in again. Wishing you and Maxine the very best for Christmas and the New Year from me and the Missus.
	11:54am Brian in UK: @adrian we had some mackrel the other day. Any good?
	11:55am Bill Mac: Thanks all for coming Make the best of the new year will ya?!!!!
	11:56am adrian in mpls: Thanks Bill - it's been a wonderful few hours!
	11:56am Stanley: Fran - you remind me of the great prophet Zarg (did I get that right) from the reastaurant at the End of the Universe
	11:56am Brian in UK: Byeee everyone.
	11:56am Sem Chumbo: Bye, bye, all!
	11:57am Syd: Great show this morning. Come back on soon Bill
	11:57am adrian in mpls: @Brian - i'll start working on my "very fishy xmas" record right away
	11:57am Fran: Stanley -Ha!!Better than Dish of The Day I guess
	11:58am Stanley: Haha - catchya later Fran
	11:59am Fran: For sure Stanley
	12:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Happy New Year, Bill!
	9:08am Stanley: Haha - Its me Bill. Just played the whole show in my office on our last day before the holiday. A merry one to you and the missus.

Zzzzzzero Hour with Bill Mac: Playlist from December 25, 2014

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