{"id":1768,"date":"2008-12-28T13:52:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T13:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/28\/a_holiday_ventu\/"},"modified":"2008-12-28T13:52:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T13:52:44","slug":"a_holiday_ventu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/28\/a_holiday_ventu\/","title":{"rendered":"A Holiday Venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the few Christmas traditions I&#8217;ve come to treasure is the annual cover song recorded by the guys behind the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adultswim.com\/shows\/venturebros\/index.html\"  title=\"Ho Ho Ho Team Venture!\">Venture Brothers<\/a><\/i>. It&#8217;s just the bit of good-natured pop-culture fun that can actually make me smile this time of year. The offerings so far have been:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/media\/Hard%20Candy%20Christmas.mp3\" title=\"MP3 download\">Hard Candy Christmas<\/a><\/i>: Bittersweet musings from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturebroswiki.com\/vbwiki\/21\" >21<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturebroswiki.com\/vbwiki\/Henchmen_24\" >24<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturebroswiki.com\/vbwiki\/Monarch\" >The Mighty Monarch<\/a>. (Originally by Dolly Parton.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/media\/Little%20Drummer%20Boy.mp3\" title=\"MP3 download\">The Little Drummer Boy<\/a><\/i>: The Monarch and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturebroswiki.com\/vbwiki\/Dr._Girlfriend\" >Dr. Girlfriend<\/a> channel Bing Crosby and David Bowie.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/media\/Wonderful%20Christmastime.mp3\" title=\"MP3 download\">A Wonderful Christmastime<\/a><\/i>: This year 21 and the dear-departed 24 gets their Wings on.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/media\/Fairytale%20of%20New%20York.mp3\" title=\"MP3 download\">Fairytale of New York<\/a><\/i>: This one&#8217;s my personal favorite, as The Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend do Kirtsty McColl and the Pogues, but with a touch of gender-bending.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/VB_collage.html\" onclick=\"window.open('https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/VB_collage.html','popup','width=1024,height=768,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/VB_collage-thumb-480x360.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Go Team Venture!\" vspace=\"5\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I probably should have remembered to do this before Christmas, but since I mostly hate Christmas I&#8217;m never really on the ball about remembering to share the bits I like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the few Christmas traditions I&#8217;ve come to treasure is the annual cover song recorded by the guys behind the Venture Brothers. It&#8217;s just the bit of good-natured pop-culture fun that can actually make me smile this time of year. The offerings so far have been: Hard Candy Christmas: Bittersweet musings from 21, 24 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/28\/a_holiday_ventu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Holiday Venture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics","category-ultramedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}