Caroling in Portland

This year, I was invited to join a group of rambunctious individuals to spread holiday cheer with a special playlist for Christmas caroling, including many 80's hair band classics and television theme songs.

I do not appear in this film, but I am amused at how crazy a gas station attendee can be driven by the Gnarls Barkley song of the same name. In my tenure with this traveling band of cheer-spreaders, I learned several things:

1. Some people will not get into the Christmas spirit, no matter how loudly you may be singing "Holiday Road" by Mr. Lindsey Buckingham.
2. My new best friend is named Eddy, and he's a short-haired St. Bernard that hangs out in the bar behind the Hawthorne Theatre.
3. You should not sing the theme to the "Greatest American Hero" to teen-agers, because they were born between six and ten years after that show was on the air.
4. You should not dwell on the fact that people can legally drink that were born significantly after the runs of both "Greatest American Hero" and "Manimal".
5. I wish I could play the guitar while walking like certain "cool people" can. I don't think I could play the guitar seated if there were a small earthquake occurring, or a largish truck rolling by.
6. When you walk into a bar that is playing Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" and you sing "Separate Ways", it brings a little Christmas magic to the room.

Merry Christmas, everybody! Remember, You Can't Always Get What You Want, but if you're not Cold as Ice, you can get All My Loving.