Russ Breimeier and Andree Farias have provided us a useful service by rummaging through dumpsters all over town collecting Christmas CDs. Revealing perhaps more than they know:

The Christmas spirit is alive and well in the music business this year, with more than twenty new releases in the Christian market...

I just wish Breimeier could have been good to his convictions and included some Christmas music full of cussing and crude language because, as he informed us earlier, cussing is useful in expressing strong emotions. (There is nothing as authentic and relevant to the younger generation as a little toilet humor.) I always thought "the Christian market" was the place for relevance and strong emotions.

You'll be disappointed to see that these two clowns failed to include any Christmas collections sung by Elvis impersonators or professional wrestlers, nothing done by chipmonks, assorted vegetables or piano bar flunkies, and there is nothing at all by our most beloved Christian Pirate! Clearly there is nothing ecumenical about his bunch of narrow-minded cretins.

And nothing from Trinity, Willcocks or Cohen.

Looks to me like Russ and Andree just phoned this one in. I think the magazine of evangelical conviction needs to hire better research assistants.

If you still haven't settled on a New Year's Resolution, try this one: Friends don't let friends listen to Christian music.