Tom Keiser
Most Recently: Wham!'s "Last Christmas" Is the Most Horrible Holiday Song Ever Made
Tom Keiser lives outside of Philadelphia. He Twitters here, and he Tumblrs here.
Wham!'s "Last Christmas" Is the Most Horrible Holiday Song Ever Made
Christmas songs are designed to be catchy, annoying and vaguely reminiscent of winter. The most successful are horrible holiday earworms, such as "Wonderful Christmastime" and "Heat Miser/Snow Miser." But one song is so overplayed and over-covered and so mediocre to begin with that it makes the rest sound like "White Christmas." Its recent exclusion from the A/V Club’s recent list of worst Christmas songs is a gross injustice to the holidays and to musicdom in general. READ MORE
The Ken Burns Defect: Looking Back At 'Baseball'
In 1994, four years removed from The Civil War, Ken Burns created Baseball, an eighteen-and-a-half hour (or "Nine Inning") documentary on the national pastime. In anticipation of Tuesday's premiere of The Tenth Inning, his four hour epilogue, I went back to watch the original in its entirety. READ MORE
