A Christmas Carol, by Tom Lehrer

UPDATE: Fixed. Click and play.

Stole this from the Padgett blog, because after wasting a good $6 trying to get the “Upload to Odeo” and “Podcast” thingies working on this goddam rented public computer, I finally figured I’d just go ahead and steal it from someone who’d already ripped it.

Have I mentioned that I’m somewhat peeved at Messieurs Gates and Jobs? Somewhat.

I assume anyone reading this is familiar with Tom Lehrer, but that’s mostly because I assume everyone worth knowing is familiar with Tom Lehrer, being as he’s arguably the greatest musical satirist ever. If, for some reason, you’re not, I would highly recommend you drop everything and pick up a copy of the multi-disc retrospective Rhino put out a few years back. Of course, now that you’ve got that album, you’ve got this song as well (two versions of it!), but I suppose that’s all right.

Lehrer, FYI, is the man who says he got out of political satire because it became redundant when they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger.

[ odeo=http://odeo.com/channel/207473/view ]

fuckit, click here for the mp3.

3 thoughts on “A Christmas Carol, by Tom Lehrer

  1. Hey–that’s kind of cool. When I tried the right-click-and-save thing, Odeo popped up a page telling me the file was no longer there.

    But the cool thing was that there’s a button reading “Okay”–and a little check box below that reading “But I’m not happy about it”.

    If only Microsquash had such features.

  2. Thanks, and Merry Christmas to Sweden, too.

    I’ll go back and see if I can fix that puppy, now that I’m over at my friend’s house with the high-speed inet and a techie on the premises.

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