Paul & Hal, I play CDs in the car, so I don’t have to suffer through radio Christmas songs. Thus no suffering in my car from, say, Bruce Springsteen popping veins over “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.”

Last night my four-year-old’s first requested Christmas song was Louis Armstrong’s rendition of “Zat You, Santa Claus?” We both sang along to it (although with my seasonal allergies, I’ve got perpetual Morning Voice, so at some points I think I was singing two octaves lower).

Wouldn’t mind hearing John Hood perform that one next at the next Locke Christmas shindig…