Posts Tagged ‘Weblog’

Christmas creep | Christmas

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Christmas creep is the commercial phenomenon of merchants and retailers exploiting the commercialized status of Christmas (see Christmas season) earlier and earlier every year. It is most often attributed to the desire of many merchants to take advantage of particularly heavy Christmas-related shopping well before Black Friday in the US and before Halloween in Canada and the UK. It can apply for other holidays as well, notably Valentine’s Day, Easter and Mother’s Day. The key for holiday creep is for retailers to lengthen their selling season for seasonal merchandise in order to maximize profit and to give early-bird shoppers a headstart on that holiday.


External links

  • Christmas Creep: The Shopping Season Is Longer, but Is It Better?

Links

The Love Parade | Parade

Monday, November 19th, 2007

The Love Parade is a 1929 musical comedy film. The plot concerns the romantic difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania (Jeanette MacDonald) and her new husband, Count Alfred (Maurice Chevalier).

The film was written by Guy Bolton and Ernest Vajda, from the play The Prince Consort, written by Jules Chancel and Leon Xanrof. The film was directed by Ernst Lubitsch.


External links

  • The Love Parade at Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy: A Tribute

Links

The Edge of Christmas | Christmas

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

The Edge Of Christmas was a Christmas compilation album released in 1995.


Track listing

  1. “Thank God It’s Christmas”
  2. “Please Come Home For Christmas”
  3. “2000 Miles”
  4. “December Will Be Magic Again”
  5. “Peace On Earth-Little Drummer Boy”
  6. “Winter Wonderland”
  7. “Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer”
  8. “Run Run Rudolph”
  9. “Christmas Is Coming”
  10. “Fairytale Of New York”
  11. “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight)”
  12. “Christmas Wrapping”

Links

Highlands Links | links

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

The Highlands Links Golf Course is a golf course located in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park of Nova Scotia in Canada, near the village of Ingonish Beach.

In 2002, ScoreGolf rated Highlands Links the best golf course in all of Canada. In 2003, Golf Digest rated the Highlands Links the 64th best golf course in the world. In 2007, Golf Magazine rated the Highlands Links the 38th best golf course in the world.


External link

  • Official site

Links

Baron Elton | the albums Elton

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Baron Elton, of Headington in the County of Oxford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1934 for the historian Godfrey Elton. As of 2007 the title is held by his son, the second Baron, who succeeded in 1973. He held minor office in the Conservative administrations of Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher and is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.


Barons Elton (1934)

  • Godfrey Elton, 1st Baron Elton (1892-1973)
  • Rodney Elton, 2nd Baron Elton (b. 1930)


References

  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett’s Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin’s Press, 1990.
  • Leigh Rayment’s Peerage Page

Paul Dorrington | the band The Wedding

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Paul Dorrington is an English guitarist and bassist best known for his 1991-1995 tenure in The Wedding Present.

Dorrington joined Sheffield group AC Temple in 1987 and recorded Rorschach Blot Test, a live compilation album featuring The Dustdevils and Kilgore Trout. In 1988 he formed Tsetse Fly with Mark Goodrham and future Wedding Present and Cinerama guitarist Simon Cleave.

In 1991, Paul Dorrington joined The Wedding Present on guitar, recording the Hit Parade 1, Hit Parade 2 and Watusi albums before leaving in 1995. Dorrington was also the guitarist of Cha Cha Cohen, recording a single on Hemiola records and an album on Chemikal Underground Records.

Keebler Company | Cookies and

Monday, September 10th, 2007

The Keebler Company is the second-largest cookie and cracker manufacturer in the United States. Founded in 1853, it has produced numerous baked snacks. Keebler has marketed its brands such as Cheez-Its (which have the Sunshine Biscuits brand), Chips Deluxe, Club Crackers, Famous Amos Cookies, Fudge Shoppe Cookies, Vienna Fingers, Town House Crackers, Wheatables, and Zesta Crackers, among others. Keebler is also a leading licensed supplier of Girl Scout Cookies, which may be why Thin Mints taste similar to Keebler’s Grasshopper cookies.

The Keebler slogan reads “Uncommonly Good,” in conjunction with their claim that the products are made in magic ovens inside a hollow tree by chief elf Ernie Keebler and his Keebler Elves. The animated Keebler Elves have appeared in countless TV commercials throughout the years, shown baking their unique products. The Keebler tree logo reflects this characterization.

In 2001, The Keebler Company was acquired by the Kellogg Company, the world’s leading cereal producer.


Jingle

The original jingle was written in 1967 by Tom Shutter and Leo Burnett as part of a marketing campaign produced for Keebler marketing executive William Harty.

“Man, you never would believe where the Keebler Cookies come from. They’re baked by little elves in a hollow tree. And what do you think makes these cookies so uncommon? They’re baked in magic ovens, and there’s no factory. Hey!”


External link

  • Official website

Mountain Park | MVMCP Park

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

Mountain Park may refer to a place in the United States:

  • Mountain Park, Fulton County, Georgia, a small city
  • Mountain Park, Gwinnett County, Georgia, a census-designated place
  • Mountain Park, Holyoke, Massachusetts
  • Mountain Park, New Mexico
  • Mountain Park, North Carolina
  • Mountain Park, Oklahoma

Step into Christmas | Christmas

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Step into Christmas is a Christmas song written and performed by Elton John, released in 1973. Though it was originally released as a stand-alone single in 1973 with the B-Side “Ho! Ho! Ho! Who’d Be a Turkey at Christmas”, it was later included as a bonus track on the 1996 remastered reissue of the album Caribou. It also appears on the albums Elton John’s Christmas Party, Rare Masters, To Be Continued, and The Best Christmas Album In The World…Ever!.


Other versions

It was covered by the band The Wedding Present on their 1992 album Hit Parade II, and also covered by The Business for the ‘Bollocks to Christmas’ EP.


External links

  • Step Into Christmas lyrics

Pixanne | Ho! Ho! Ho! Who’d

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Pixanne was a popular children’s television program hosted by singer-actress Jane Norman (born about 1935) that ran from 1960 to 1976, primarily on WCAU-TV in Philadelphia. The show was syndicated nationally from 1970 to 1976.

The show began when Norman, a onetime child prodigy who’d been playing and composing music since she was 8, contacted on old classmate from Temple University, working at what was then WFIL and is now WPVI-TV about a possible children’s program featuring a Peter Pan-like character. Though there were no openings at WFIL the friend recommended her to the CBS owned-and-operated station WCAU. Though she walked in with no appointment, she got the show immediately, and production soon began. The name “Pixanne” was a combination of “pixie” and “Anne” (”Pixjane”, apparently, didn’t sound as good), and a costume, looking very much like Mary Martin’s Peter Pan, was made. There was a supporting cast of puppets as well, including Oggie the owl, and Fliffy the butterfly. There was an alter-ego as well: A witch called Windy.

When WCAU management changed in 1969, they took Pixanne off the air, much to the protests of many viewers. But the show soon came back on in syndication, with WNEW-TV in New York as the flagship station. The show went off the air in 1976. Jane Norman is still singing and performing around her native Philadelphia, though her performing is now mostly focused towards adults.