By Joe Klein

As Christmas 2008 draws to a close and all the presents have been unwrapped, I received one last, very cool holiday gift.

It came in the form of an email telling me that Christmas In Malibu was once again featured on the front page of the MEVIO NETWORK.

(THE FOLLOWING TEXT WAS UPDATED ON 12/27/08)

Listen to Christmas in Malibu on itunes

On Chirstmas day, the music video of the song immediately followed Adam Curry’s holiday greeting on the video player embedded on Mevio’s HOME PAGE. You can watch Adam’s holiday message, which played on Christmas, on the player below. (Note that, following the Christmas day greeting, current daily Mevio video content follows in place of The Rad Dudes video, which did immediately follow Adam’s holiday message on Christmas day.)

What a pleasant surprise, and very cool way for the holiday to end for me. The wind outside was howling, the rain was falling, and the sky was dark gray with storm clouds on a (rarely experienced) cold and wet Christmas day in the Mohave desert. How great it was to sit cuddled up next to the “electronic fireplaces” in my cool little Arizona hideaway. The flat screen satellite TV and widescreen computer monitor were ablaze as surround sound speakers trumpeted out the notes of the holiday tune that refused to die! This made it quite the joyous holiday for yours truly!

On what was a frigid, white Christmas 2008, I offered my sincerest appreciation to all the bloggers, podcasters, video networks, newsletters, mainstream radio, television, magazines and newspapers who featured Christmas In Malibu during the 2008 holiday season. My heartfelt thanks for spreading the warm vibrations of a magical Southern California Christmas twenty years after it was first celebrated!

(Scroll down to the previous post to hear the voice chat between the song’s lead singer, KARMA AUGER and me. You can listen to it on the audio player in the post below.)

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

AND TO ALL, A GOOD NIGHT!

ARTIST’S RENDERING OF MALIBU BEACH ON CHRISTAMS DAY