Tuesday, December 4, 2007

PUT ON YOUR YARMULKE...: Tonight begins the Festival of Lights (if you're looking for a last-minute gift, my friend Peter Orner contributed an excellent essay to How to Spell Chanukah and Other Holiday Dilemmas), but unlike David Lee Roth, Christopher Hitchens won't be lighting the menorah.

And speaking of the holidays, travel back to 1984 with this CBS Morning News report predicting that the big holiday phrase that year will be "Daddy, I want a CD player," (especially with prices on players dropping to $300). Best part of the report? It has to be the voice over "Record companies are racing to get all their pop stars on disc," as the camera pans the racks on longboxes (remember those?) with Frank Stallone's CD front and center.

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