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Kinkslump Linkdump

This is my dozenth linkdump! The world comes at you fast, and even though I'm writing 4-5 essays a week for this newsletter, many's the week that ends with more stray links than will fit in that format. Here's the previous ones:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/

I managed to turn out five posts last week, despite being on tour with my latest novel, The Lost Cause, a hopeful solarpunk novel endorsed by Rebecca Solnit, Bill McKibben and Kim Stanley Robinson. The tour went great – the book's now a national bestseller on the USA Today list! Here's an essay I wrote explaining the structure of the feeling that the book is meant to convey:

https://www.torforgeblog.com/2023/11/14/cory-doctorow-the-swerve/

This is a climate emergency novel full of rising seas, terrible storms, wildfires and zoonotic plagues, and yet – it is a hopeful novel. What makes it hopeful? It depicts a future in which we are treating these phenomena with the gravitas and urgency they warrant, with our whole society's focus shifting to moving coastal cities inland, weatherizing and solarizing our housing, and creating permanent housing for internal refugees.

While it would be infinitely preferable to live in a world where none of that is necessary, that's not the world we have. This is an sf novel, not a fantasy novel, so all the climate harms we've locked in through decades of expensively procured inaction are present. But the difference between disaster and catastrophe is how and whether we address those harms. Sure, this is a world where superstorms wipe away whole cities and Miami is a drowned mangrove swamp, but it's also a world in which oil executives do not chair UN climate summits or complain that oil companies are being "unjustly vilified":

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/27/opec-says-oil-industry-unjustly-vilified-ahead-of-climate-talks-.html

I write a lot, and it's not just this newsletter. Writing transports me from my anxieties and aches. That's how I came to write nine books during lockdown ("when life gives you SARS, make sarsaparilla"). Lost Cause was one of three books I published in 2023.

I'm going to greet 2024 with another novel, The Bezzle, a sequel to 2023's Red Team Blues, about the hard-charging, high-tech forensic accountant Marty Hench:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

The Bezzle is a story about the shitty technology adoption curve – the way that the worst technologies we have are first rolled out on the people least able to complain about them. After these bad technologies have their sharp edges sanded down on the bodies of prisoners, refugees and kids, they move up to blue collar workers and discount store shoppers, and so on, until we're all living under their thumb.

In The Bezzle, a dear friend of Marty finds himself serving a long sentence in a privatized California prison that flips from one private equity fund to the next, each with even worse, more extractive ways to use technology to bleed prisoners and their families dry. You can read the opening scenes in a just-published excerpt on Tor Books's site:

https://www.torforgeblog.com/2023/11/20/excerpt-reveal-the-bezzle-by-cory-doctorow/

The period immediately before a book's publication is always a tense one, as the first reviews trickle in. Library Journal's Marlene Harris is the first out of the gate, with a spectacular review:

https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-bezzle-1802415

Marty’s reminiscences range from obscure financial machinations to heaping helpings of social commentary but always move the underlying thriller story forward in a backwards heist tale that delivers a righteously satisfying ending to the surprise of both the reader and the villain. This novel, like his previous outing, rides on Marty’s voice. He has a jaundiced view of everything, but he tells it with such style and verve that readers are caught up and ride along on the surface until the shark beneath the water jumps out and bites the villain where it hurts.

I'm headed into Skyboat Media's studios on Monday with @wilwheaton to record the audiobook for this one, directed as ever by the amazing Gabrielle de Cuir. Keep your eyes peeled for a presale crowdfunder in January!

I am often asked how I decide when to present an idea through fiction and when to do so with nonfiction. The answer is a complicated one, and I got into it in some detail on Nature's Working Scientist podcast, in discussion with Paul Shrivastava:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03394-8

When it comes to politics, fiction and nonfiction are intensely complementary. Nonfiction can convey the data about a social phenomenon, but fiction can convey the meaning of the data. It's one thing to see a chart about inequality, and another to inhabit it through fiction. Marty Hench's narrative adventures are a way into the feeling of living in a corrupt oligarchy.

There are other ways into that feeling, of course. Take Barry Bowen's "Lifestyles of the Blessed & Famous: Preacher Homes Sold in 2023" for The Roys Report:

https://julieroys.com/lifestyles-blessed-famous-preacher-homes-sold-2023/?mc_cid=9678383b64

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then carefully staged realtor drone shots ganked from the Redfin listing for a "pastor"'s $3.5m mansion in Newport Beach is a full-on sermon about the corruption of the Hillsong megachurch:

https://www.redfin.com/CA/Newport-Beach/503-30th-St-92663/home/12363926

Narratives and photos are all well and good, but there's always room for some data. The USA's weird breed of federalism and devolved power makes for some very interesting data. Writing for The American Prospect, Paul Starr rounds up several studies evaluating the "natural experiments" created by enacting very different policies in otherwise similar states:

https://prospect.org/health/2023-12-08-life-death-cost-conservative-power/

The data is in: conservativism kills. Living in a red state shortens your life expectancy. The redder the state, the worse it is. The bluer the state, the longer you're likely to live:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-0009.12469

The exemplars here are Connecticut and Oklahoma, whose life expectancies were at par until they began to diverge in policies. Oklahoma got more conservative, Connecticut got more liberal. Today, the average Oklahoman will pop their clogs at 75.8, while a Connecticutensian can expect 80.7 years.

Different scholars have parsed out different policy outcomes. Giving Medicaid to children, for example, shows benefits for the next 50 years:

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20171671

The big one, of course, is gun control. Here's the topline: "restrictive state gun policies reduce overall gun deaths." Water also wet:

https://journals.lww.com/epidem/fulltext/2023/11000/the_era_of_progress_on_gun_mortality__state_gun.3.aspx

Fact-free spiritual beliefs like "an armed society is a polite society" are key to conservative policymaking. Pesky progressives who confuse the issue with relevant facts are playing dirty, pointing out reality's unfair leftist bias.

But after 40 years of neoliberal deference to corporate power, the worm is turning. Somehow, a world on fire, filled with megapastors in megamansions who brief for lethal policies, has finally inspired a global vibe-shift (and not a moment too soon!). One of the most tangible expressions of that shift is the revival of antitrust, which has been in a coma since the Reagan administration.

All over the world – the EU, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and the USA – there are new competition enforcers challenging corporate power in ways that were unthinkable just a few years ago. If I'd written an enforcer like FTC chair Lina Khan in 2010, critics would have slammed me for wish-fulfillment too unrealistic for science fiction.

But today, Khan is taking big swings at corporate power, fighting against a calcified edifice of decades of bad, pro-monopoly precedent. The pro-monopoly press hate her, which is why the WSJ keeps publishing sweaty op-eds insisting that she is wasting her time and that monopolies are good, actually:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/#the-peoples-champion

But she is still out there, fighting for all of us. After a pro-monopoly judge stymied the FTC's bid to block the rotten Microsoft/Activision merger, Khan re-filed, appealing the decision:

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-ftc-tries-again-stop-microsofts-already-closed-deal-activision-2023-12-06/

Critics insist that she's on a foolish errand, but Khan is tackling the most promising face of a sheer cliff, and the plainly anticompetitive merger between one of the world's largest console makers (a convicted monopolist!) with one of the world's largest games publishers is the right place to start. If she can get her piton into one of the hairline cracks in that face, her arduous climb gains a solid anchor for the next stage of her assent.

Of course, Khan's highest-profile action is her case against Amazon, the omnipresent, dystopian poster-child for enshittification, a platform we can't avoid, but which is so haphazardly policed that the bestselling bitter lemon energy drink you order might be bottled piss harvested from its immiserated drivers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/20/release-energy/#the-bitterest-lemon

In a world of murderous, community-destroying monopolies, Amazon stands out for the sheer number of ways it makes the world worse. Amazon maims its warehouse workers and kills its drivers with impossible quotas. It poisons Black and brown neighborhoods with truck exhaust from its giant depots. It destroys small businesses that sell on its platform. It was part of the studio cabal scheming to destroy actors and writers' livelihoods with unfair contracts and AI. Its audiobook monopoly stole at least $100m from independent authors. It makes goods and services more expensive at every retailer (not just Amazon), and price-gouges on its own storefront:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/#consumer-welfare-queens

Keeping that scam going requires a lot of skullduggery. A new set of leaked internal Amazon documents shed some light on how that inedible sausage gets made:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjbm9/amazon-brags-it-cultivated-california-mayor-with-donations-in-leaked-policy-document

Amazon's "Community Engagement Plan 2024" brags about buying off small-town mayors and astroturf groups in its bid to resist regulations that would limit warehouse delivery van emissions in communities of color (Amazon calls this "philanthropic work"). Coincidentally, that "philanthropy" targeted Perris, a town where residents voted for a warehouse tax to repair the roads that had been trashed by fleets of Amazon vans.

But the real focus of Amazon's "Community Engagement" is California's AB1000, a bill that will limit the construction of supersized, 100k+ sqft warehouses near daycare centers, schools or rec centers. Secondarily, Amazon is hoping to get California to make it easier to advertise alcohol around kids, to "unlock" California's liquor market.

This kind of shameless, mustache-twirling villainry can only go on so long before it meets resistance. One of the longest-running, hardest fought struggles against corporate malfeasance is the farmers' right ro repair fight against John Deere. Deere boobytraps its tractors so that after a farmer repairs a Deere tractor, they have to wait for days, and pay hundreds of dollars, for a Deere technician to come out to the farm and type an unlock code into the tractor's console:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/08/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors/

Despite multiple state right-to-repair initiatives and a pending rulemaking from the FTC, Deere is still fucking around. Now, they've found out. US District Court Judge Iain Johnson just handed Deere a scathing, 89-page memo rejecting the company's bid to kill a class action suit brought by its customers:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/deere-must-face-us-farmers-right-to-repair-lawsuits-judge-rules-2023-11-27/?ref=404media.co

The memo hearkens back to company founder John Deere, "an innovative farmer and blacksmith who—with his own hands—fundamentally changed the agricultural industry":

https://www.404media.co/a-massive-repair-lawsuit-against-john-deere-clears-a-major-hurdle/

Judge Johnson tells Deere's lawyers that the real John Deere "would be deeply disappointed in his namesake corporation," and calls out their lying. You love to see it.

This kind of thing is happening all over the world as policymakers, regulators and lawmakers take aim at corporate power. The Australian government just announced that it would force Apple to open up iOS to alternative browser engines:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/new-digital-competition-laws-for-australia/

This is obscure and technical, but that's why it's so exciting: rather than mumbling broad platitudes about competition and user choice, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's regulation targets a critical leverage point where a small change will deliver huge benefits:

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/consumers-and-small-businesses-to-benefit-from-proposed-new-regulation-of-digital-platforms

While there are many browsers in Apple's App Store, they're all just reskinned versions of Safari, all running on the same core engine, Webkit. Webkit is ancient, undermaintained and feature-poor. Crucially, Webkit does not implement the parts of the HTML5 standard needed for WebApps, which would allow app developers a safe channel to offer apps that don't go through Apple's App Store monopoly chokepoint:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/13/kitbashed/#app-store-tax

Now, there's a big jump between announcing this kind of regulation and enacting it. As Mark Nottingham points out, Australia's had an "in principle" commitment to enact a privacy regulation for two successive governments, with no actual regulation in sight:

https://techpolicy.social/@mnot/111546662237364754

So we can't take these announcements as a sign to declare victory and stand down. The policymakers who announce these proposals deserve our accolades for the announcement and they require our constant vigilance until they make good on their promises.

That's the case in Ireland, where the Coimisiún na Meán has just published a fantastic regulatory proposal for recommendation systems, requiring recommenders to be turned off by default and that recommendations based on "political views, sexuality, religion, ethnicity or health" have to be switched off by default:

https://www.cnam.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Draft_Online_Safety_Code_Consultation_Document_Final.pdf

It's especially significant that this is coming out of Ireland, a corporate crime haven that has successfully lured the world's tech giants into flying its flag of convenience, with the guarantee of tax evasion and lax regulation:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/finnegans-snooze/#dirty-old-town

This rule won't enforce itself. It'll require constant vigilance and pressure. There's plenty of ways to do that on a part-time, voluntary basis, but if this kind of thing enflames you enough to make a career out of it, here's a tenure-track job for an infosec professor at Citizen Lab, fearless slayers of high-tech corporate ogres:

https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Information-Security-ON/576463017/

That's all for this week's linkdump. It's time for me to go hole up in my office and wrap presents. When I do, I'll be tuning into the latest Merry Mixmas MP3 of Christmas mashups from DJ Riko:

http://www.djriko.com/dls/DJ%20Riko%20-%20Merry%20Mixmas%202023.mp3

Riko's Christmas mashups have been part of my holidays for more than two decades now. He's been making them for 22 years! That's a lot of great holiday mashups:

https://www.djriko.com/mixmases.htm

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/09/gallimaufry/#marty-hench-rides-again

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merry mixmas guys x

[mixamorphosis]

Blog post [HERE]

Tracklist

01. A Charlie Brown Christmas - Intro 02. Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time Is Here (Instrumental) 03. Sally Fletcher - White Christmas 04. Dina Washington - Ole Santa 05. James Brown - Santa Claus, Santa Claus 06. Brook Benton - Soul Santa 07. Charles Brown - Christmas Blues 08. Binky Griptite & The Dee Kays - Stoned Soul Christmas 09. Lowell Fulsom - I Wanna Spend Christmas With You 10. Glenna Bell - Be My Valentine On Christmas 11. Marvin Gaye - Christmas In The City 12. Amos Milburn with Charles Brown - Christmas Comes But Once A Year 13. Herb Alpert - Let It Snow 14. Winston Groovy - Merry Christmas 15. The Granville Williams Orchestra - Santa Claus Is Ska-ing To Town 16. Billy May - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Mambo 17. Pearl Bailey - Jingle Bells Cha, Cha, Cha 18. Four Imperials - Santa's Got A Coup de Ville 19. Beginning Of The End - Gee Whiz, It's Christmas 20. Milly & Silly - Getting Down For Christmas 21. Jimmy Reed - Christmas Present Blues 22. Vernon Garrett with Sir Stan & The Counts - Christmas Groove 23. Funk Machine - Soul Santa 24. Harvey Avenue Band - Let's Get Together For Christmas 25. Black On White Affair - Auld Lang Syne 26. Jimmy Jules & Nuclear Soul System - Christmas Done Got Funky 27. The Staples Singers - Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas? 28. James Brown - Merry Christmas Baby 29. Freddy King - Christmas Tears 30. William Clarke - Please Let Me Be Your Santa Claus 31. Lightning Hopkins - Santa Baby 32. Carey Bell - Christmas Train

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Merry christler. Jerry Mixmas. Berry Crimesus. Many Crimesus. Merry Christmas.

-bnuny despite it not being Christmas yet

mmety chrims

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MIXMAS CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENT

[Taken directly from "News" section of Mixels site]

(Also this isn't actually real)

The Mixels have announced that the 'Oasis Tribute' show of their month-long "Merry Mixmas" tour will be held on the 19th of December (a week from today).

As promised, the show will still be held in Paris's Accor Arena.

If you have tickets for the show, please make sure you'll be able to get here safely, due to chances of cold temperatures and rain.

When asked why the show was being played on this day and at this location, member of the Spikels, Footi (lead guitarist of the tribute act) stated that it was for the following reasons:

The 19th is the closest day to around when the band wanted to perform.

The Accor Arena has a very large capacity (likely one of the biggest in Paris).

At this time, no information has been given as to what the setlist for the show will be; however, there have been rumors that the set will be the exact same as their show in Londonderry back in September.

The band have yet to confirm if this is true or not.

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like if you save

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OOK OUT OL' BACON IS BACK! 🎄 #Phooletide2019 on Phoole and the Gang! 🎄 Friday 20 December 2019 6pm Central US time / midnight UK time 🎄 Tune in at links in linktree in my bio! 🎄 LET JOY AND INNOCENCE PREVAIL 🎄 Dispel darkness on the longest night of the year 🎄 Hide from humdrum holiday harangues 🎄 It's a subterranean solstice celebration 🎄 We're your found Phooligan family 🎄 ffm.to/santabacon is where the Santa Bacon is AT 🎄 also, though it is controversial, we actually prefer veggie bacon by @morningstarfarms #xmas #christmas #xmasparty #mixmas #merry #merrymixmas #merrychristmas #happychristmas #happyxmas #santabacon #santabacon🎅🥓 #phooletide #wintersolstice #mixmash #mashups #covers #christmascovers #xmasmusic #christmasmusic https://www.instagram.com/p/B6R285WAXoq/?igshid=760dcqk10gkv

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Dj Darth Vader and Trooper Merry Mixmas Ugly Christmas Sweater election by trumping up charges and discrediting a president.. SMH. I guess

[belladoesmakeup]

Hey guys,

Previously I showed everyone a lip kit from the beauty collection LMX by Little Mix and I got a few requests to show what else is available so I wanted to show you a affordable find from the collection. This year they have released a Merry Mixmas Lucky Dip bag that cost £6.00 each and inside you get a eye pigment and a gloss and there are 4 versions to collect. This week boots have had a promotion on the LMX collection so I actually got this set for £4.00 which is even more affordable.

Now the LMX collection itself is a mixture of face, lips & eyes and these lucky dip bags are a great way to sample the collection. In my little bag I got a holographic lipgloss that is clear with pink glitter reflects in the formula. I have to admit when I saw the gloss I thought of god it’s like one of those baby ones you’d get at Claire’s accessories but actually this gloss feels so nice on the lips and doesn’t leave you feeling all sticky and gross. The gloss itself looks gorgeous by itself or on top of a lipstick.

I also got a eye pigment in a beautiful rose gold shade. I was really to get a colour like this that for me is wearable and pretty. Now obviously it’s a glitter eyeshadow in a little pot so you do have to be careful when applying the eyeshadow that it doesn’t go anywhere which of course we’d all expect in one degree or another. I’ve worn this twice now so see how it lasts on the eye. I’ve worn it just with eye primer and mascara and it honestly looks gorgeous the colour is so pigmented that the shimmer just looks amazing on the eye and reall ties together a lot of autumnal eye looks.

For the price of the items you’re getting I’m really surprised and happy with the quality of the products. When you see lucky dip bags like these it’s safe to say you might assume it’s child like quality makeup or it’s shade that won’t sell well so they threw them into a lucky dip. But the quality of the products are great especially the eye pigments, usually products like these would make me nervous but actually getting the chance to try a eye pigment and in a colour I actually like I’m really excited to try other colours. In the LMX collection there is a set of 4 pigments for £10.00 so I’m very tempted to pick one up now I know what the quality is like.

I personally like presents like these lucky dip bags because 1. It’s a cute add on Xmas gift especially if you have a budget and 2. It gives you a chance to try out products you may have not thought of before. If you’re looking to grab yourself a lucky dip bag they are available in all Boots stores in the Christmas gifting section.

Lots of love

Bella x x

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This day in history

#15yrsago Gibson’s self-destructing poem Agrippa: screen-movie https://agrippa.english.ucsb.edu/post/bibliography-subcategories/video-resources/a-run-of-william-gibsons-agrippa-poem-made-from-playing-a-copy-of-original-1992-agrippa-diskette

#15yrsago Chinese “poem” on the cover a scholarly journal is actually an ad for a brothel in Macau https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/chinese-classical-poem-was-brothel-ad-1058031.html

#15yrsago Theme Time Radio Hour: With Your Host Bob Dylan — the greatest shuffle-run on Dylan’s MP3 player https://memex.craphound.com/2008/12/09/theme-time-radio-hour-with-your-host-bob-dylan-the-greatest-shuffle-run-on-dylans-mp3-player/

#15yrsago Stem-cell trachea transplant was endangered by EasyJet: “your cell culture is a security risk” https://web.archive.org/web/20081214063827/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/3490549/Easyjet-threatened-to-derail-stem-cell-transplant.html

#15yrsago HOWTO Carry a gun onto an airplane https://web.archive.org/web/20081218004445/http://wbztv.com/local/fake.federal.agent.2.874625.html

#10yrsago Lessons from Glitch http://20minutegarden.com/2013/12/09/life-lessons-from-glitch-the-game/

#10yrsago TSA seize tiny, itsy-bitsy gun from sock-monkey https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/tsa-agent-confiscates-sock-monkeys-toy-pistol/281-246977307

#10yrsago Spooks of Warcraft: how the NSA infiltrated gamespace https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/nsa-spies-online-games-world-warcraft-second-life

#10yrsago We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: spectacular, deep, zingy novel https://memex.craphound.com/2013/12/09/we-are-all-completely-beside-ourselves-spectacular-deep-zingy-novel/

#10yrsago Elsevier censors self-publication by papers’ co-authors https://svpow.com/2013/12/06/elsevier-is-taking-down-papers-from-academia-edu/

#5yrsago Uber is a “bezzle,” doomed to disappoint the suckers who buy into its IPO https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/will-uber-survive-the-next-decade.html

#5yrsago Argentine hacker mods Furby so it quotes Borges, creates a “Borgy” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jlDL-j9upg

#5yrsago Merry Mixmas! It’s time again for DJ Riko’s badass Christmas mashup http://djriko.com/mixmases.htm

#5yrsago Uber forces its drivers to arbitrate, rather than sue, but Uber also won’t arbitrate https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-us-otc-uber/forced-into-arbitration-12500-drivers-claim-uber-wont-pay-fees-to-launch-cases-idUSKBN1O52C6/

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LMX Beauty

LMX Beauty is now available to buy in store and online

LMX Get Vocal: £15

LMX Get The Luxe: £40

LMX Metal Mixer: £14

LMX Eye Got The Power: £16

LMX Brush Up: £18

LMX All That Shimmers: £10

LMX Merry Mixmas Lucky Dip: £6

LMX Gettin' Lippy Lip Kit: £8.50

LMX Dabbing Kween Makeup Blender: Currently out of stock, But due to be restocked soon.

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Originally posted online in 2008. Merry Mixmas 1-3 are on my main blog [HERE]

Tracklist

01. Steve Martin - Christmas Wishes 02. Nancy Wilson - The Christmas Waltz (Awayteam Remix) 03. Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime (Rhythm Scholar Kringle Kut Remix) 04. Divide & Kreate - Jingle Jane 05. Mariah Carey vs Dillinja & Unknown Error - Scarey Christmas (DJ NoNo Mash-up) 06. Paddy Roberts - Merry Christmas You Suckers 07. Solcofn - Nude Christmas 08. Exert - National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 09. Divide & Kreate - Blitzkreig Santa 10. Carey Bell - Christmas Train 11. Go Home Productions - Carpenter's Christmas (Karen Meets Roots Radics Uptown) 12. Faroff - A Message To Santa Claus 13. Alton Ellis & The Lipsticks - Merry Merry Christmas 14. Brat - Funky Christmas 15. Unknown 16. Voicedude - It's The Little Things

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Soundtracks this week (23-Dec-2018)

yay, holiday break. i’ve been so enjoying my delicious solitude and i sorta wanna cry that it’s coming to an end.

Jazz Christmas

Orchestral Holiday Pops

DJ Riko’s Merry Mixmas 2018

Smash Mouth

Electro-Swing

for a lot of the days I listened to a sounds from my excellent White Noise app, namely roaring & crackling fireplace, light crackling wood stove, snapping fireplace, stormy new jersey pier, light dripping winter rain...