Want A DVD Of A Yule Log? You Have Options

It seems like cheating, or bad karma, but it's possible to have a yule log crackling on the television screen anytime, even several days before Christmas -- or on Halloween or Presidents' Day, for that matter.

With titles like "Ambient Fire" and "The Happy Holiday Hearth," yule log DVDs offer a dizzying array of flaming options, from stately baroque plumes to crispy, woodsy campfires. There is even a soft-core porn Christmas log: on "Yule a Go-Go," dancers like Ms. Tickle and Bunny Love perform tassled, spangled burlesque-style stripteases to Christmas carols in front of a roaring fire. (Actually, those flames are quite subdued, for perhaps obvious reasons.)

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Comments

[Sonny50]

Is it me or does that look like the same log each year? ;)

[MIMom]

I am blessed with satellite TV. I flipped in each showing of the Yule Log on WGN, KWGN, WPIX, KTLA, and our local WXMI (all Tribune stations). Observations:

*WGN - best color (on my TV, anyway - a CRT set)

*KTLA - has this modern looking fireplace and is playing a simulcast of a local radio station. Looks REALLY bad. Looks like the are sho.oting in someone's house.

*WXMI - has this floating golden ornament in the corner with sponsors. It looked completely ridiculous. The whole object of the Yule Log is to pretend your TV is a fireplace. If you put an animated ornament in the corner, it takes away the effect.

*WPIX - playing it from 9 -1 !!!!!!! Wow.

I know -- I put too much thought into this. There's nothing else on. :-)

[PaxMundis]

I actually like the one that comes with A Colbert Christmas - a Book Burning Yule Log. Yeah, it's tasteless, and offends my sensibilities, but it's still funny.

[MadMoll]

It's my favorite, too. I truly hope that a Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All becomes a holiday tradition

[PaxMundis]

madmoll: Do you, like me, feel a little queasy laughing at it? I mean, I really do find book burning offensive, but I still think it's funny. Part of the reason I prefer it to my old yule log DVD is that the old one was fairly static.

[JScott]

I think in LA ch. 9 will be doin it for four hours on Christmas Day.

[3fingerbrown]

We honor that unsung pioneer of television, Fred Thrower, father of the Yule Log. http://www.theyulelog.com/htmls/father.html