{"id":8834,"date":"2022-12-22T23:25:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T04:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2022-12-23T01:39:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T06:39:44","slug":"yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/yes\/","title":{"rendered":"YES!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my bleg the other day has borne fruit over at BCE&#8217;s joint, as fate would have it. Intrepid commenter Some rando <a href=\"https:\/\/theoutlawintrepidreporter.blogspot.com\/2022\/12\/scammy-bank-fraud-and-things.html?m=1#comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">puts us some knowledge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hey biggun: BP Mike was asking about Beethoven Christmas muzik.<br \/>\nSkunk works sez it\u2019s Pamela Howland &#8211; Christmas With Beethoven.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And sure enough, BLAMMO, just like that: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B08LF1V253\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3RQVBHTSLW7L1&amp;keywords=pamela+howland+christmas+with+beethoven&amp;qid=1671769263&amp;sprefix=pamela+howland+christmas+with+beethoven%2Caps%2C105&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what once was lost now is found<\/a>. Well, okay, I mean, it wasn&#8217;t really <em>lost<\/em>, exactly, it just sorta&#8230;I mean, y&#8217;know, I couldn&#8217;t seem to find&#8230;oh, to heck with it. Many thanks to you, Rando, and a very merry Christmas to ye.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ud\">Update!<\/span> While we&#8217;re on the subject, let me revert to one of the Carolyne Taylor arrangements I found whilst poking around for hours the other night, and felt was fascinating: a happy marriage of one of my DeBussy all-timers, <em>Clair de Lune<\/em>, with the hauntingly beautiful &#8220;Silent Night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FTRPmGc2_L8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>So much wonderful stuff out there just waiting to be listened to and enjoyed, one could never hope to get around to it all. Speaking of, please indulge me for a couple more from my annual Christmas Best-Of list.<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1pyKPB7T3dw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F6X0INmLbG8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>You gotta love it, no?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ud\">Updated update!<\/span> And since I&#8217;m dealing out the humble thank-you&#8217;s here, indulge me a wee bit further as I offer a most heartfelt one to CF Lifer Barry, who graciously assisted me in sorting out an issue with the Gab Pay thingamawheezy I wasn&#8217;t even aware I had. It gratifies me no end to be able to report that the GP tech-support folks were most Johnny-On-The-Spot-ish with their much-needed help; I&#8217;ve been rooting hard for Torba&#8217;s pet project since its inception, so it gives me the warm fuzzies deep down inside to see &#8217;em take care of business in such an expeditious and capable fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Much as I do like Elon Musk, enjoyable as it&#8217;s been to watch him pull Twitter&#8217;s head all the way up its own ass to the shoulders and wring it right the hell out to the accompaniment of a chorus of weeping and whining from overentitled, too-twee shitlibs everywhere, I really have no intention of jumping the Gab ship and heading there-wards instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my bleg the other day has borne fruit over at BCE&#8217;s joint, as fate would have it. Intrepid commenter Some rando puts us some knowledge: Hey biggun: BP Mike was asking about Beethoven Christmas muzik. Skunk works sez it\u2019s Pamela Howland &#8211; Christmas With&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/yes\/\">Would you like to know more?<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  YES!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20,48,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-believe-it-or-else","category-brilliant","category-flotsam-andor-jetsam","category-merry-christmas","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-20-id","wpcat-48-id","wpcat-78-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8834"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8858,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions\/8858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}