Naughty & Nice - Holiday Pin-Ups

From 2008 : Since a certain nameless blog listing service turned down Dougsploitation because it considered it "pornography" - I decided to put my money shots where their mouths are and share some slightly sexy photos from Santa's private collection.

First up, we have everybody's favorite Batgirl, Yvonne Craig showing some skin as she poses among some brightly wrapped packages spilling out of Old St. Nick's big sleigh.

Next up we have a classic James Bidgood photo of a hunky young man (circa 1966). Looks like somebody has already started unwrapping their present!

Yvonne's back, this time looking pert and stylish as she poses with a smiling snowman in front of a lovely decorated holiday window.

Meanwhile, a twinky blonde caroler has arrived with quite an assortment of gifts for some lucky recipient. This is another shot from a Bidgood collection called Holiday.

The Moon's Our Home

What an odd title for a Christmas-themed romance! This 1936 novel was one of author Faith Baldwin's 85 published works in a career that spanned over 50 years.

Is it the story of the first man/woman astronaut team who must celebrate their first Christmas together snowbound in a lunar base? It sure looks like it to me. Does anybody have any other guesses to what the plot line might possibly be?

45 Years of A Charlie Brown Christmas

There's been so much written about this award-winning classic already (both online and in the "real" world), that there's not much of anything I can say that hasn't already been said.

I could go on about the characters, the sad little tree, the commercialism of Christmas or the wonderful Vince Guaraldi soundtrack. But I won't.

I could also comment on the religious aspect of the show - since it's one of the rare instances of Christian propaganda that seems to be accepted and tolerated by even the most ardent believers in separation of church and entertainment. But I won't go there either, even though I just did. ;)

I could trace it's broadcast history and talk about how it's been edited (or some say "censored") over the years, but you can get all that on Wikipedia. I just wanna share some great old TV Guide ads and thank the late great Charles Schulz, Bill Melendez and the aforementioned Mr. Guaraldi for creating a simple, wonderful half-hour of animation that has defined how people think about Christmas for the past 45 years. In the words of Lucy Van Pelt, "Charlie Brown is a blockhead, but he did get a nice tree".

From Pee-Wee to Peanuts

A year ago I had a few good friends over to watch some Christmas specials. We ended up watching SEVEN in a row. That's right SEVEN!!! We started with PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - the 1988 CBS special with the best guest line-up ever: Frankie Avalon, Charo, Cher, The Del Rubio Triplets, Annette Funicello, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Whoopi Goldberg, Magic Johnson, Grace Jones, kd lang, Little Richard, Joan Rivers, Dinah Shore and Oprah!
This hour-long program is possibly one of the best hours of television ever. And gayest.
Next up in our line-up was A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS (see below), followed by (in no specific order) HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS, THE NANNY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS , RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER and THE SNOWMAN (see yesterday's blog entry). I'll have more detailed entries about most of these shows in a few days, in the meantime, here's my Peanuts entry from last year: There's been so much written about this award-winning classic already (both online and in the "real" world), that there's not much of anything I can say that hasn't already been said. I could go on about the characters, the sad little tree, the commercialism of Christmas or the wonderful Vince Guaraldi soundtrack. But I won't.

I could also comment on the religious aspect of the show - since it's one of the rare instances of Christian propaganda that seems to be accepted and tolerated by even the most ardent believers in separation of church and entertainment. But I won't go there either, even though I just did. ;)

I could trace it's broadcast history and talk about how it's been edited (or some say "censored") over the years, but you can get all that on Wikipedia. I just wanna share some great old TV Guide ads and thank the late great Charles Schulz, Bill Melendez and the aforementioned Mr. Guaraldi for creating a simple, wonderful half-hour of animation that has defined how people think about Christmas for the past 43 years. In the words of Lucy Van Pelt, "Charlie Brown is a blockhead, but he did get a nice tree".