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Todd in the Shadows
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Be-shadowed music reviewer on YouTube, cohost of
Song vs. Song


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The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2025
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To all, a merry "Song about the day after Christmas as performed by a Robert Goulet impersonator from the flop HBO show Vinyl"
December 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
JARED GOOF
December 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
"please welcome the voices of huntrix" no they're just huntrix now. they're huntrix and they fight demons
December 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you
December 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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"but do you recall the most famous reindeer of all?" I mean yeah that's the easy one
December 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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The seasonal focus on "A Long December" is distracting us from recognizing that "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby" is the '90s "Visions of Johanna"
December 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
My annual Christmas reminder: The letters to Santa are not why Santa was found in court to be Santa in "Miracle on 34th Street." It was because prosecuting Santa Claus looked really bad politically for the judge and he was looking for any excuse to let him go. The moral is: Work the refs
December 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Christmas presents for Amydog??!!
December 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Alyssa Micaela - "Cowboy for Christmas" (2020)

Hope she got it. Merry Christmas from Santa's Pub!
December 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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"Feliz Navidad": Proof if you write a song with two absolutely irresistible choruses you can pretty much call it a day at that
December 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This Gwen Stefani song both sucks and is an obvious ripoff of "Christmas Wrapping" but you can't really get mad about a Christmas song sounding like another Christmas song
*The Waitresses voice* Bah, humbug
December 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Happy birthday to our savior, Amydog. She's ten years old!
December 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
For years, people have wondered why Andy Williams's description of Christmas includes "scary ghost stories." The answer: Andy Williams is cool
December 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Jon Langston - "I Only Want You for Christmas" (2022)

This was filmed at legendary Nashville karaoke bar Santa's Pub, one of many country videos filmed there (but this is one of the few where it's explicitly karaoke). RIP Denzel "Santa" Irwin (1950-2025).
December 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Fun fact, the original version of this, Alan Jackson's "I Only Want You for Christmas" predates Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by a couple years. There's only so many topics for Christmas songs!
Jon Langston - "I Only Want You for Christmas" (2022)

This was filmed at legendary Nashville karaoke bar Santa's Pub, one of many country videos filmed there (but this is one of the few where it's explicitly karaoke). RIP Denzel "Santa" Irwin (1950-2025).
December 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I made a Worst Hit Songs of 2025 list

I recommend reading through it rather than just checking the songs. Could spark some interesting conversations. :) buttondown.com/AlsThoughtsA...
The Worst List?
The worst hit songs of 2025! In a way. I guess.
buttondown.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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I am taking the bold step of covering a show for my Patreon that people actually like! First taste is free, please give it a look.
we begin our journey through Babylon 5! my review of The Gathering is free to everyone, so please check it out, share it widely, and consider subscribing if you'd like to follow along!
Babylon 5: The Gathering | Zack Handlen Writes
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December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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When I was in high school we made 69 jokes but the economy is so bad kids these days can only joke about 67
December 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Rest well lil pup
December 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Bari Weiss literally runs a unaccredited conservative "college" out of a disused apartment store here in Austin containing a marble bust of her own head. Ain't a metaphor in the English language for her whole career that's gonna be more on the nose than that.
December 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Is "Linus and Lucy" a Christmas song?
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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These people are gutter trash.
JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."
December 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again
AH, HA HA, HA HA, HA HA, HA HA, HA HA
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Sometimes you work with cast or crew just once. Other times you make 5 movies with the same person. So instead of saying goodbye, on the last day of shooting, many of us say “See you on the next one.”

Today, I don’t want to say goodbye, so let me just say, PJ, my friend, see you on the next one.
December 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
oh my god awful. RIP James Ransone, Ziggy in The Wire, Eddie in It Chapter 2, Deputy So and So in the Sinister movies

variety.com/2025/tv/obit...
James Ransone, Who Played Ziggy Sobotka on ‘The Wire,’ Dies at 46
James Ransone, an American actor best known for playing Ziggy Sobotka in 'The Wire' died on Friday in an apparent suicide. He was 46.
variety.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM