A very merry Christmas to all you Gristians — if you celebrate it anyway. Hell, even if you don’t. Nothing wrong with being merry, right?

In honor of the occasion, I give you the single greatest Christmas song ever recorded: “Merry Christmas from the Family,” by Robert Earl Keen.

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