Bellevue Carol – Bruce Broughton (Miracle on 34th Street)

Glorious, Beautiful Chirstmas – Carl Zittrer & Paul Zaza (A Christmas Story)

Al Green & Annie Lennox – Put A Little Love In Your Heart (Scrooged)

Kajagoogoo – Shouldn’t Do That (Santa Claus: The Movie)

Jingle Bells – Yello (The Santa Clause)

The Gremlin Rag – Jerry Goldsmith (Gremlins)

Ode To Joy – Michael Kamen (Die Hard)

Suite – Dimitri Tiomkin (It’s A Wonderful Life)

Snow – Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Trudy Stevens, Peggy Lee (White Christmas)

Hey, Santa Claus – The Moonglows (Christmas Vacation)

Pennies From Heaven – Louis Prima (Elf)

Deck The Halls – Boots Randolph (Bad Santa)

Lonely Christmas Eve – Ben Folds (How The Grinch Stole Christmas)

Sleigh Ride – Darlene Love & The Brian Setzer Orchestra (Jingle All The Way)

Christmas All Over Again – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (Four Christmases)

Christmas Is All Around – Billy Mack (Love, Actually)

It started with a joke I’d been telling friends for the previous ten years. I figured if I didn’t tell it here, I’d never tell it anywhere. And from there… it just grew. Characters introduced themselves to me. I didn’t feel I was writing them. They came to me as fully formed individuals. With things to say. So many things to say.

On January 25th, 2008 I was introduced to a purple pygmy panda bear. On April 11th, I found put his name was Pinder. We became fast friends and he has lived in my head ever since.

Ten years later, my output has slowed. And I haven’t been to a comic book convention in a while. I know I don’t tend to the strip like I should. But it is still a fertile garden where my every dream can grow.

Thank you all for reading.

Here are the top 5 80s songs that aren’t…

5. I Wanna be Sedated, The Ramones

So many requests for this song from 1979. A music video wasn’t made until 1988, so that’s probably where the confusion comes from.

4. Heart of Glass, Blondie

Love, love, LOVE this song from 1978. A lot of great late-70s Blondie gets requested.

3. Birdhouse in your Soul, They Might Be Giants

Don’t let anyone tell you different, the album Flood came out in 1990.

2. Enjoy the Silence, Depeche Mode

Personal Jesus was released in 1989 ahead of the album Violator (and this second single) in 1990, hence the mixup.

1. Rock Lobster, The B-52’s

Other songs off their debut album weren’t big until 1980, but this single first hit in 1978.

So, am I too much of a stickler? What other songs do you know that have been confused for he wrong decade?

For the record, I will play the 70s ones… if asked nice enough. But not the 90s. Never the 90s.