so my mother shows up at my door earlier this evening. we won't be together for christmas and she has my present - a new stereo with a working cd player plus tape player and radio. i have my radio/tape/dead cd player in my bedroom, so i set the one my mom gave me up in the living room. i immediately put it on texas blues radio - tunes like "christmas blues" and "in jail for christmas".
and then i heard babs gonzales' "bebop santa clause" - a spoken word and organ thang about a family in harlem nodding on drugs who are visited by a santa in a flying cadillac.
this is significant because i heard about babs on this site. one of these threads. it's here somewhere.
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