"The Soundtrack To Your Life"

Sirius XM satellite radio provdies a list of special programs for your Thanksgiving holiday. Click HERE to see a detailed list.

Holiday 2011 features

With more than 140 channels, SiriusXM provides focused temporary channels to cover an anniversary, event or person.  For example, yesterday started "Muppet Radio":

“Muppet Radio” will be a five-day limited run starting on Nov. 23rd, hosted by Kermit the Frog, featuring classic Muppet music and an array of Muppets interacting with hosts from various talk, music, and sports channels.

Muppet Radio Ch. 145 (Online Ch. 813)

Seven channels will provide different holiday themes:

While extensive, I still miss the station that provided my soundtrack. When Sirius and XM were competitors, XM often provided more extreme and creative content.

Special XMas

I enjoyed four years of  Special XMAS. This guilty pleasure kept me in the spirit with the best of the worst and weirdest holiday-themed songs and programs.

XM 107 is the soundtrack to your dysfunctional family holiday. It’s a special, different musical view of Christmas with parodies, novelty songs, hip numbers, retro oddities, and weird tunes that are so bad they’re the musical equivalent of getting underwear for Christmas. It’s like the oddest Christmas mix tape you ever got from that very strange friend.

Well beyond dogs barking Jingle Bells or a replay of the awful 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special, it helped me appreciate and celebrate the Winter Carnival in a twisted and perverse manner.

Lee Margulies, writing for the Los Angeles Times, did a December 19, 2006 article on the Special XMAS channel.  Spreading plenty of Christmas jeer: Forget the chestnuts. The only thing getting roasted on an XM Satellite Radio channel is the holiday itself. About 1,200 holiday songs and bits!

Hmm … this may say more about me than I realize (!!)

Mike "FossilMedic" Ward

GO AHEAD, WORK IT OUT FOR YOURSELF:

The number 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111
gives you a product of:

12,345,678,987,654,321

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Always do a little more each day
Than is expected of you …

And very soon …
More will be expected of you.

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There is food in beer,
But there is no beer in food.

Beer is like liquid bread -
It provides the same necessary nutrients.

I say, just lay off the food.

………. Jim Koch

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Always be nice to your children.

They are the ones who will be
choosing your nursing home.

………. Phyllis Diller

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There are only two ways
to handle women.

Unfortunately, nobody
knows what they are.

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A woman may buy riding clothes
and never get on a horse.

She might buy a bathing suit
and not go near the water.

But when she buys a wedding dress,
she means business !

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Summer Camp is where parents
spend $1,200 so that their
boy can learn how to make
a 50¢ clay ashtray.

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It is believed by many of you
that men are smarter than women.
Maybe so, but have you ever
seen a woman marry a dumb man
because of his shape?

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When it’s lunch time …

IT’S TIME FOR LUNCH !

(Be honest now, you’ve done this yourself, haven’t you?)

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