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Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts

Sweet & sublime as always! SVT's 2012 St. Lucia telecast from Uppsala Cathedral -with Astrid Cederlöf as Lucia- was loaded with Swedish goodness, including ABBA's Benny Andersson on piano and Helen Sjöholm singing; There's no substitute for such sheer genius & talent!





sannasonja's YouTube Channel video: Benny Andersson on piano, Olle Moraeus on violin - "En skrift i snön" on SVT's Luciamorgon telecast from Uppsala Cathedral, Sweden. Recorded December 7, 2012 for broadcast on Dec. 12th. Uploaded December 13, 2012. http://youtu.be/cTatkGocfCY






Sweet & sublime as always! SVT's 2012 St. Lucia telecast from Uppsala Cathedral -with Astrid Cederlöf as Lucia-

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Two views of the entertainment world of Christmas 1957: Pre-Christmas shopping and American comedy as seen thru the eyes of Jack Benny, and Ingmar Bergman's masterful 'Wild Strawberries' opens in Sweden the day after Christmas and becomes a classic from Day One


MiscVideos78rpm YouTube Channel video: The Jack Benny Program - Christmas Shopping (Original air date: December 15, 1957). Uploaded December 23, 2012. http://youtu.be/u17Xo0dqJ34



And on December 26th, 1957, Ingmar Bergman's classic film of remembrance, "Wild Strawberries" -Smultronställe- officially opened in Sweden. 

One of my all-time favorites, which I've probably seen. conservatively,

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President Reagan's Address to the Nation About Christmas and the Situation in Poland -December 23, 1981; Lech Walesa and the Solidarity trade-union movement in Poland


ReaganFoundation YouTube Channel video: President Reagan's Address to the Nation About Christmas and the Situation in Poland — December 23, 1981. Uploaded December 10, 2012. http://youtu.be/9kiFK6xxE08







ColdWarWarriors YouTube Channel Solidarity Poland 1981, Uploaded on May 28, 2010. http://youtu.be/peT3-xSzj08



https://www.youtube.com/user/ColdWarWarriors

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When you live in a city run by turkeys... you recognize them on sight



Above, the candy corn-beaked turkey and Publix Ligram Pair Pilgrim salt and pepper shakers that greeted everyone this morning for breakfast at my sister's home in Pembroke Pines, Thanksgiving Day 2012. 
This candy and cookie-based turkey hybrid was her boss' wife's brilliant idea, and as we all chowed down our breakfast, it sat there quietly on the table, mocking our notions of actually eating

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