{"id":3307,"date":"2006-01-02T13:45:12","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T21:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/01\/02\/3307.html"},"modified":"2006-01-02T13:45:12","modified_gmt":"2006-01-02T21:45:12","slug":"california-winter-the-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/01\/02\/california-winter-the-album\/","title":{"rendered":"California Winter: The Album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It occurred to me Sunday morning, after being awakened by a windstorm that was related to the flooding that's happening up north of here, that there ought to be an album of Northern California-specific winter-holiday music.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the tracks might include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let It Rain, Let It Rain, Let It Rain (I suppose in Southern California it's \"Snort the Snow, Snort the Snow, Snort the Snow\")<\/li>\n<li>I'm Dreaming of a Green Solstice<\/li>\n<li>Baby, It's Mildly Chilly Outside (I know, I know, it doesn't scan)<\/li>\n<li>Grandma Just Came Over With Some Raingear (or maybe \"Grandma Got Run Over in the Rain, Dear,\" but that sounds a little grimmer than would be ideal for a holiday album)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But Northern California isn't all about weather.  Here are some other possible tracks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I Saw Mommy Surfing Santa Cruz<\/li>\n<li>Build the Deck with Planks of Redwood (or maybe that should be \"Deck the Halls with Eucalyptus\"?)<\/li>\n<li>O Tannin Wine<\/li>\n<li>The Little Hacker Boy<\/li>\n<li>The Holly and the Wood (I guess that's another SoCal song)<\/li>\n<li>All I Want for Christmas Is My I.P.O.<\/li>\n<li>Angels We Have Heard Are High (\"...tell us where we too can buy.\")<\/li>\n<li>Away with the Ravers<\/li>\n<li>Carol with the Bells (Carol being a drag queen, of course--along with her friends Suzy (Snowflake), Joy (to the World), and Mary (Little Christmas))<\/li>\n<li>O Little Vale of Silicon<\/li>\n<li>We Three Kings of Industry Are<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cameron.edu\/~mikel\/christmas\/music2.html#winterwonderland1\">Women's Underwear<\/a> (to the tune of \"Winter Wonderland\")<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was trying to come up with alternate lyrics for \"Up on the Housetop\" involving escaping from a flood (there are all sorts of California-appropriate rhymes for \"flood,\" like \"bud\" and \"mud\"), but I'm not really awake yet, and I suppose it would be in poor taste anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I'm obliquely reminded that my father told me a joke long ago to which the punch line was \"Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear.\"<\/p>\n<p>And that I was very tickled a few weeks ago when I came up with the phrase \"Carol, the ancient Yuletide troll,\" until I discovered that someone else had beat me to it.  But I think my favorite Christmas pun is still the kids'-book title <cite>Olive, the Other Reindeer<\/cite>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me Sunday morning, after being awakened by a windstorm that was related to the flooding that&#8217;s happening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-entries","category-humor","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}