Memo to Dude Playing Pan Pipe in Herald Square Subway Station

21 Dec 2006

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I love Christmas music, but "The Twelve Days of Christmas" can be pretty tedious to listen to. Especially so as an instrumental number, where each verse gets that much more repetitive than the previous one. Something you might want to think about.

Christmas Music New York City

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Hugo and Nebula Award nominee. Creator of Proper Manuscript Format, Spelling Bee Solver, Tylogram, and more. Banned in Canada.

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The house on the corner is a goddamn nuisance. █████ would probably put it like this: "Someone sure whacked them with the Christmas stick." It's a big, beautiful house of tan brick, in the Prairie School–derived style that makes so many old Chicago houses so distinctive.

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When a Christmas gift arrives late, even through no fault of the giver, it really should be, well, this. I have the best brother-in-law ever.

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Memo to Dude Playing Pan Pipe in Herald Square Subway Station

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