SOUNDTRACK: GARFUNKEL AND OATES-“Year End Letter” (2010).
Garfunkel and Oates are a wonderful comedy team. I’ve enjoyed so many of their songs, but this was the first time I ‘ve heard this Christmastime ditty.
We always enjoy reading people’s year end letters with an eye towards the attitude in this song–slightly mocking and yet also thinking:
“You’re right, your family’s better than mine
And it seems you make a lot more money.”
But now with the advent of Facebook, people post their year end letter info every day. And I am very sad to see that we got virtually no year end letters this year. So even though we tease, now we miss what we once mocked. At least G&O can remind us what they all contained.
And since I cannot figure out how to embed a vimeo video, you’ll have to click this link to watch it.
[READ: December 20, 2013] Legends of the Guard
This book is a collection of short pieces written and illustrated by some of the greats in independent comic books (with a shocking number of them being from Michigan). Evidently many writers contacted Petersen and wanted to work with him. He didn’t want to mess up the arc of his story so he devised this idea. Set in June’s Ale House, all of the mice are tasked with telling a story. The one who tells the best will have his bar tab erased (for some that is quite a deal).
And so, these stories or legends are set at any time in the past and do not impact the chronology of our Mouse Guards. And man, are they good. (more…)
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