Day 9: Personality Disorder Edition

Originally posted Dec. 9, 2010

So, one of the handful of ideas that got me thinking about this little endeavor was the chance to tear apart the absolute worst holiday song ever: “Christmas Shoes.”

Aside from being unforgivably cheesy and overwrought, the singer/narrator is a wretched excuse for a human being. I had fully planned to work with some of our social worker friends to work up a clinical psych diagnosis on this narcissistic sociopath.

But, alas. As Jimmy informed me this morning, we have been beaten to the punch by Patton Oswalt and — surprise, surprise — a professional comedian managed to do a better job than I could have hoped to do.

Here is the bit with a funny animation. There are some f-bombs in the routine and part of the animation is a little blue for the office so this is medium-NSFW.

Well, since Patton did all my work for me I kinda feel like I am phoning this one in, so here is a little bonus bit that I am not sure will fit in any other post (all SFW):

• First, the set-up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI
• Now, the Christmas payoff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_pWTlN15bc

But really, it’s just a ham-handed attempt to figure out how to contextually share this list from Cracked. Nothing to do with Christmas, but the write-up for #1 had me in tears.

Also, a bit of housekeeping/clarification: the graduate program Jo got into is online through SCAD, so we are not moving to Savannah any time soon …