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To those who are celebrating today and the next couple weeks, happy holidays. Some of my happiest Christmas memories involve the Hip Hop CD’s I would receive each year as a gift. I remember trying to find CD’s without parental advisory stickers to ask my Grandma to buy me, and arguing with my mom about why Slick Rick’s Behind Bars was actually not a gangsta rap record, and didn’t completely go against everything Christmas stood for like she said. I know kids don’t ask for CDs anymore, but hopefully they will include some Hip Hop downloads with those Itunes and Zune giftcards they get. Keep the tradition alive. And now, in honor of the holiday, a special Christmas edition of Historical Weed Sessions.

Ganja Ice Weed (It’s winter time, it only seemed right. Plus this bud makes everyone jolly.)

Location FAO Schwarz on 5th Ave in New York (Every kid’s dream come true, unsupervised fun in a toy store)

Participants

Ishmael Reed (Teacher, Poet, Author, Essayist, Oaksterdam resident, Ishmael Reed is one of my favorite authors of all time. Every year around Christmas I read his novels The Terrible Two’s and The Terrible Three’s. They are about Christmas, but so much more. If you haven’t read anything by him, do yourself a favor, and pick these classics up.)

Washington Irving (Also an author, his book The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon is credited with inventing many of the traditions that started the modern American celebration of the holiday. Prior to his time, Christmas wasn’t really celebrated here, and when it was, it was a raucous carnival event, not a wholesome family holiday)

Chevy Chase (Just as influential, in my opinion, as Washington Irving on the current culture of Christmas through his National Lampoon movie.)

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