Drunk at a Christmas Eve party, like Baby Jesus intended.

IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE

(Gainsbourg at the door, whisky sweat, smoking, with Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Aston 'Family Man' Barrett & several other rastas) WAITS: Well it's my old pal Serge, bonjour GAINSBOURG: Je suis allé en Jamaïque pour apprendre comment provoquer l'orgasme grâce aux basses SCRATCH: I AM THE THUNDER

We are off and running live from the dining room table with year 37 of the 25-Hour Holiday Radio Show! Merry Christmas, all. #wprbxmas

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Jon Solomon was just sworn in as a U.S. citizen live on the air! Crying right now omg so breautiful. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 wprb.com

Ok, so I’m basic

That’s right, it’s Zelig!

No new episode this week, thanks to me being laid up with covid until recently, but we have 214 episodes you can explore, including this stealth Thanksgiving movie:

Deth Elf is my favorite Christmas band, so I was thrilled to get to do a song with them! (Check out all of them)

Andy & Josh talk about Xmas traditions, film, food, dogs, books and more! Two nice guys for two nice hours! Listen while you travel, wrap gifts, cook, clean or stare at your bellybutton. Find the show at Apple Podcasts via the link below or wherever you get your shows. @empathyapocalypse.bsky.social

Listen, an at some point you may hear the latest song from our side project Deth Elf!

Thanks, @phillymag.com! 5.5 hours until #wprbxmas...

Hey, did you know we have a lo-fi music project along with our podcast? dethelf.bandcamp.com

It’s the reason for the season.

Please join me for year 37 of the 25-Hour Holiday Radio show on WPRB starting at 5:00 pm ET on Christmas Eve. Tune in at 103.3 fm or wprb.com. #wprbxmas

This is a hate crime against the great city of Philadelphia; I will be sailing up the Don tomorrow night like Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas and extract my revenge.

Jesus this dude is dumb

Ho-ho-holiday greetings! I’m guest-hosting Wake this morning and bringing you my annual Holiday Music Funktacular with all your favorites and (hopefully) none of the songs you’re sick of hearing by now! Join me from 6am - 9am EST on @wfmu.bsky.social, or stream the archive later if you miss it!

Also, a small thing, but the opening montage of a very dirty 1980s Philadelphia at Christmas brings up so much nostalgia for me—I really am looking at home movies when I watch it, I love it so much.

To go home Bob Cratchit came out by the church, turned left into Cornhill, Poultry & Cheapside, into Newgate St, into Holborn, up the Grays Inn Rd into what's now Kings Cross, up the Pancras Rd into Camden Town. His house looked like this -

In London a time comes every day where the ghosts get their own back. It's often subtle but always undeniable, and it's strongest in autumn & winter. If you're ever at loose ends on Christmas Eve, pay respects at St Michael's Cornhill. Because here, down the alley, was Scrooge's counting house.

Oh hell yeah, new Nesteroff book is coming—at least one good thing about 2026.

Gift article: Nativity scenes have long mirrored current events. All of the ICE references this year are no different. share.inquirer.com/lpRVSD

Ann Pennington teaching Felix the Cat to dance, 1926 Pennington was BOTD in 1893

this gotta be the worst aged movie poster of all time man

I am a Village Green/Arthur evangelist, especially as a two-album project about the transition of Britain’s self-concept from pastoral village Romanticism into post-industrial, post-imperial malaise. Also, they’re both very dryly funny albums, like all Kinks albums.

hijacking this extremely correct post to also add The Zombies into this particular mix

I mean, yeah, they even did that retcon that had him and Marge hooking up in the ‘90s.

@zizpa.bsky.social we gotta make each other dunce caps.

I am not a Christian of course but like all Americans I have spent my life marinating in Christian mythography, and so around this time of year I have a lot of thoughts about the Nativity and the part where the innkeeper says there's no room in the inn.

as the lowest members of society and challenging us to recognize the divine in them, and that's what I think about a lot whenever i see those pictures of the Star of Bethlehem over the manger in Nativity scenes. The Gods are always reaching down towards us.

Anyway, in PROMETHEA, Alan Moore posits the idea that there are "lost" major Arcana in the tarot, and one of those is the Beggar, a route of divine energy that goes straight down from Kether (the Divine Crown) straight into humanity, and this is the story of all the gods disguising themselves

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ALMOST THERE. The 25-Hour Holiday Radio Show begins Christmas Eve at 5:00 pm ET only on 103.3 fm WPRB!

Does DeSantis know he has one of those swarthy Mediterranean names? He’s one step away from being named Abdul.

Tonight! Join @djrobertdrake.bsky.social for his 33rd annual 24-hour nonstop live takeover of XPN for The Night Before from midnight to midnight. Listen live worldwide, watch it all on the JingleCam. They even have the quad speakers set up on the North Pole! Listen/watch here: xpn.org

Oh damn, I think I found my people

Any time Eagles fans are impugned as a group, the individual casting aspersions should recognize that they are actually insulting international icon and hero, Malala Yousafzai.

Hey, somebody look up what happened to Tiberius.

Wait, do they have four eyebrows?

Spoiler alert, bedraggled hobo found on the beach only source for claim that he was imprisoned as sex-slave for not one but two super hot witches.

Ep 416 is up! Andy talks about a guy paying to be Gene Simmons’ roadie, Rod Stewart yelling at a fan, a streamer not recognizing Ringo Starr, & Riff Raff freestyling. On Rachel's Chart Chat, Rachel from Des Moines (@therachel.bsky.social) looks at Willie Nelson's 1979 Christmas album "Pretty Paper".

He’s got bodies in the basement, we will find it out someday.

Every day you live in a body in the United States is a lottery. And when the numbers come up, it could be you who has to pay out.

Ride free dream warrior

This panel is the worst thing that has ever happened to any of Peter Parker's loved ones.

Oh thank god it’s over

I was sitting in my bedroom, texting a friend, when I thought i heard a baby crying outside. Which is weird because nobody here has a baby, and none of my neighbors do. And then I heard a second crying—just like a baby making noises but not screaming in pain or anything.