One of my favorite TV shows is Community and one of my favorite episodes of that show was last year’s Christmas musical special, and one of my favorite songs from that particular episode was “Teach Me How to Understand Christmas”:
Clearly the whole sexy dummy Christmas baby bit is a parody of the holiday standby “Santa Baby,” wherein the lady singing takes on a disturbing persona of a whorish infant who sexily begs for expensive toys. For a nice example of how weird this is see Madonna’s version of the song, mostly because the concept of Madonna being cute or asking for something (instead of demanding it) or even condescending to celebrate something so pedestrian and suburban as Christmas is completely alien:
What’s worth noting, however, is that the original recording of the song isn’t nearly as disconcerting.
You dedicated the book, in part, to your haters, but you don’t seem like a particularly divisive public figure to me--what do you tend to get hated on for (according to the haters?)
Proper nouns are not allowed in Scrabble, but many names associated with the Windy City are, in fact, playable, because they exist as common nouns or verbs. For instance, both the first and last name of longtime Chicago resident and Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow are playable, as SAUL is an alternate spelling of "soul" and BELLOW can mean a deep-voiced yell.
Working at The Soup seems like the ultimate dream job to some. But what were some of the less-fun aspects of watching lots of TV and writing jokes about it for a living?