According to the Internet (which would never lie to us), December 9 is officially Christmas Card Day. And while that sounds like an observance fabricated by Hallmark to move more product, it would have provided me with the perfect excuse to post this video.
Well, I’m a day late. No one’s paying me to do this, so you get what you get when I want to give it to you. That’s the deal, unless someone would like to negotiate a better one.
Anyhow, here’s Tom Waits from an Austin City Limits episode recorded on December 5, 1978. It’s a Christmas song! It has the word right there in the title: “Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis”. He even sings—well, slurs might be a better word—a bit of “Silent Night” while he’s at it.
John Lucas 
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