There Won't Be Snow in Africa

Over the years, I've penned a couple of posts about how the premature influx of Christmas music turns me into Grinchy McScrooge (especially when forced to endure tireless rotations and sickly R&B incarnations of "Sleigh Bells" and the like while doing my laundry in our building's basement, i.e. "the Christmas Prison"). But it occurred to me a day or so ago that here we are in late December and I haven't heard Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" a single time. Really, not even once. And while it inarguably launched a thousand preening pop stars to get all faux-altruistic, it still brings me right back to high school. While that's not always a good thing, in this case it is. So here's a Christmas gift that maybe only I will enjoy. Joyeux Noel, y'all.