12/24/15

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas! The F&P International Headquarters has been shut down for a week or so now, because we believe in making the most of our holiday celebrations. But today is Christmas Eve & I would feel remiss if I didn’t reach into my sack & pull out a few words for you kind people.

Here in the midwest we’ve yet to see a lick of snow, so it’s hard for us to believe it’s Christmas. I’d like to blame the weather for the fact that I waited to do all my shopping until today, but this is what happens every year. I always think I’m going to come up with some really cool gift ideas for people! What happens every year, though, is that I buy everyone booze last minute. I should just buy the booze around Thanksgiving & enter the Christmas season worry free. But is a guy like me going to be able to hold onto a bunch of nice bottles of booze for a whole month without drinking them? Doubtful. I was put on this earth to procrastinate.

Anyway, being a man who loves his 70s-era outlaw country, one of my favorite films of all time is Heartworn Highways. It’s a documentary about Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, David Allan Coe, Steve Earle, Charlie Daniels, & Rodney Crowell, among others. Well, the film ends with a clip of some of these dudes (& chick--Susanna Clark, in all her raging glory, was there as well) drunkenly singing “Silent Night” at Guy & Susanna’s on Christmas Eve. Brings a god damn tear to my eye.

Another, more hilarious, of my favorite Christmas tunes is George Strait’s “Christmas Cookies” because I like any song that includes cookies & allusions to hanky-panky.

So Happy Christmas, as that hippy once said! Enjoy it, folks! If your family becomes too much to bear, he’s to hoping you’ve got a corner bar open near you. Much love! Ho! Ho! Ho! and shit!

Oh, also we’ve got two new things for you to check out from contributor Nate Jacobs!

Scope this recipe for piggy soup, and this Violet Cold album review!

Merry Christmas!

Frank X Maloney