Christmas in Blue

Insert bad Elvis Blue Christmas pun here. Apparently I like blue apparel, this is slightly textile heavy. Red. Silver. Black. Click image below to enlarge 1. Fossil Analog Blue Dial: $75 2. Unknown blue polka-dot scarf 3. Patagonia Lightweight Alpine Beanie: $25 4. Mission Bicycles’ Itzaboy: $750 5. Field Notes Colors (year subscription): $129 6.…

Christmas in Red

In human color psychology, red is associated with bravery, purity, happiness, good luck, heat, energy, and blood, and emotions that “stir the blood”, including anger, passion, love, pain, and sacrifice. In Christmas in Colors it just represents more material things you should get your hands on. Previous: Black & Silver

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Today’s installment of free Christmas music is themed to the tune of Sufjan Stevens. Pick up his Songs for Christmas boxed set to get all 5 albums worth. I have some more I might add if the response is good. Sufjan Stevens – That Was The Worst Christmas Ever! [audio:http://bit.ly/4DOlUQ] Download: http://bit.ly/4DOlUQ Sufjan Stevens –…

Christmas in Silver

And possibly a little gray. The shiny silver of gadgets to men is the same draw I imagine women have with with diamonds. Can’t. Resist. Urge. To. Buy. If you missed it previously, Christmas in Black

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Three tracks for your Thursday listening pleasure. Listen and/or download. Michael Bubl?© – I’ll Be Home For Christmas [audio:http://bit.ly/5xwMpv] Download: http://bit.ly/5xwMpv Jamie Randolph – White Christmas [audio:http://bit.ly/8wpRUh] Download: http://bit.ly/8wpRUh Jimmy Eat World – 12-23-95 [audio:http://bit.ly/4sZbyt] Download: http://bit.ly/4sZbyt *Right-click and “Save Link As” or “Save Target As” to download

Gift giving in color

There’s no shortage of “perfect gifts for 2009” around but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to throw my own two cents in the ring. To throw a spin on it, I’ve decided to organize my lists by color. I’m guessing most of it will end up being geared towards men and almost all of it…

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If you’re reading this, you’re in a special club – the RSS-reader club to http://christianross.net. It’s like the “He-Man Woman Haters Club” from the Little Rascals and you get to be Spanky. Welcome and congrats. You won’t actually see this post hit the front page of my site, it’s intentional. As previously mentioned, it comes…

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In terms of posts, this is the third. In terms of songs posted, this is the fourth. Paying attention? One of my favorites over the last couple of years, an all-Canadian line-up. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – Barenaked Ladies & Sarah McLachlan Click play button below to listen [audio:http://bit.ly/8LUa14] Download: http://bit.ly/8LUa14 *Right-click and “Save…

Christmas music, day two

One day in and I’ve already had some great submissions to the show. Still time left to get your favorites sent in. The more the merrier. Today’s track comes courtesy of my Kansas City dotcomrade Eric Hurst (web | twitter). The man knows his way around some Rails code and has recently launched himself into…

Christmas tunes

Editor’s note: I did this on another one of my sites last year and it was pretty popular so I thought I’d give it a go here. I have a decent collection of Christmas music. It’s not huge but I have accumulated some quality tracks here and there over time. Of course I dig the…

Jingle Bells, microwave style

If you’ve ever contemplated writing music with the ding’s from your microwave, you can now stop. It has been done and its more than likely better than anything you or I could produce. from AKQA (via Blankenship)

Remember your 80s Christmas

I attempted to post this earlier in the day and just realized I created it as a page. Sure did mess up my navigation. Some Internet goodness from today: Ah, the good ol’ days: http://betamaxmas.com/ via Snook   An entertaining 5 minutes showing what it is really like for men in the ‘doghouse.’ via Rob…