Announcement: Noiseless Chatter Christmas Party on Dec. 23!

Hello friends! (And Jeff!) I know you’re all really excited about Christmas, and very happy that stores have been reminding you of the holiday since about July 12th. So allow me to jump the gun on Thanksgiving and say…

…The First Annual Noiseless Chatter Christmas Party will be held on December 23! Mark your calendars now!

Details to come, but I wanted to try something a little different this year, and I figured I’d give you all as much notice as I could.

The plan is to open up a chat-room and stream the season one ALF Christmas special live, with everybody joining in the mockery! Of course that would only eat up about 20 minutes, so I’m going to create a playlist of Christmas episodes from other shows as well. Will they be good shows? Will they be bad shows?! Nobody will know until I reveal the answer in the next sentence. They will be bad shows.

So get ready, and tell your friends. We’ll probably have around two or three hours’ worth of programming, and we can always slap on one of those fantastic Hallmark Christmas films if the party wants to keep ragin’. (I recommend A Hobo’s Christmas, which I haven’t seen, but it’s called A Hobo’s Christmas for crying out loud.)

Snacks and beverages will not be provided, so make sure you have the Yuletide nibbles and booze of your choice close by.

It’ll be a chance to hang out with great people, watch some terrible television, and join in the live riff of ALF and the other surprises I have up my sleeve.

Again, details to come, but start telling your friends and family that you’re busy that night and they can go fuck themselves.

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