Livre d'Or

Oh, I think that the vast, century-spanning repertoire of Christmas music is the finest cultural flower of Christianity, possibly its best contribution to the human community. Sturgeon famously once said that 90% of everything is crap, but I'm pretty sure the crap proportion of Christmas music is way, way lower than that: the mid-20th-cen American nostalgia-kitsch is but a thin scum that can be skimmed off the rest of the brew.