Good morning, everyone: Christmas is here, you’re watching the Star Wars Holiday Special bootleg Santa brought last year, and if you’ve ended up on Santa’s ‘good-little-kid’ list this year, too, maybe you got what you want under the tree.   In an attempt to, you know, get some brownie points with the elves, I put my Santa letter into christmas-carol format.   Hopefully Santa doesn’t count rhyming schemes when analyzing his incoming mail, but I did my best.   If you’d like to sing along, it’s written to the tune of God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen (audio here):

Dear Santa, I’ve been good this year,
No problems caused by me,
I thought I’d write a short list here,
if guidance did you need,
to pick out just the bestest thing
that I could ever see,
And Star Wars is just the thing for me,
wouldn’t you think?
My suggestion is what my collection needs.

I want a vintage Obi-Wan
the rarest that there be,
his saber is collapsible
not one-piece blade, you see,
they were just made in
one small batch,
are few and far between,
oh eBay has failed me once again,
once again,
I can’t find him for sale, that ol’ Ben.

If Obi Wan cannot you find
A YakFace will do fine,
In Europe and Australia
was he sold to fans sublime,
The market in the States was foul,
Star Wars was in decline,
so a YakFace is very rare to find,
stateside,
but it’s not too spendy, if you check the Guide.

One day I sold my Boba Fett,
twelve-incher, he was big,
because he lacked accessories
and paint-flakes did he bleed,
but now I wish I had him back,
Oh, Boba, why’d you leave?
But Christmas is here and now you see,
I have a real need,
I’d like another — with accessories.

In Christmas memories of mine
Star Wars was prominent,
My uncle dressed as Santa and
gave Jedi accoutrements,
but years have passed and now I lack
the toys that came and went.
Collecting is tougher now ‘cuz boys
play hard with their toys,
now grownups still ask Santa for Star Wars.

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