That’s right. It’s Christmas Eve eve, er, eve. What a fine time to check out these parodies from the holiday songbook on Marcy Shaffer’s Versus web site. “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot More Riskless” Lyrics here “The Cinders of Ayn Rand” Lyrics here “Oh CRE” Lyrics here “Go Tell It In Accountin’” Lyrics here

With jokes like “that’s like saying that tautologies are tautological,” not sure you’ll be seeing Yoram Bauman, Ph.D, aka The Stand-Up Economist, on Conan O’Brien (though Jay Leno may be willing to give him a whirl, at this point). In this video, he riffs on Greg Mankiw‘s classic textbook, Principles of Economics.

Yesterday we highlighted one man’s poignant and self-reflective post on his one-year anniversary of being laid off. But the guy is also very funny, as evidenced by his blog’s

The latest Auto-Tune the News was released recently, this one dealing in part with health care. Perhaps you haven’t yet seen this feature, in which different news events are set to song and…well…it’s kind of hard to explain. Just watch… Tune in on Twitter, too.

Poached from the Vodpod page of Oddjob Nation. Michael Spafferty video resume – Spafferty’s experience in Project Management, Product Management, Management Projects, and Management Management makes him the perfect hire for your enterprise. “Bearish” – truly a song for the times, with apologies to The Association Page 3′s Recession Song – sung by some guys [...]

Odd Job Nation: Go for the job listings, stay for the web series.

If you’re looking for employment, we’re not sure Odd Job Nation’s the right place. For a site that bills itself as “the ultimate resource for today’s growing army of part-time opportunists,” there aren’t very many jobs listed—aside from re-posted ads from the “gigs” section on various regional Craigslists.

But the real action is on the “Odd Jobs” web series page. There you’ll find three webisodes, featuring Nate, “a neurotic, recently laid-off investment banker” and Joe, “his unemployed, morally questionable, hustler roommate.”

Who knew that the rock group The Band saw the housing crash coming way before anyone else? Found on the Real Estate Video blog.

Have you been laid off? Fired? Canned? Pink-slipped? Axed? Downsized? Dismissed? Sacked? Shown the door? Made redundant? Given an exit interview? Escorted from the building by security? Assigned to a “special project” working out of your home, with no title and no pay?

It ain’t no picnic. And now even the sandwich-board guy has landed a job offer. Why didn’t you think of that?

But cheer up, friend. It’s not like there are no pleasures to be gotten from the jobless “experience.” How do we know that? Stuff Unemployed People Like, that’s how. What is “Stuff Unemployed People Like”?

B-B-Bernanke & The Fed

The web site Jobacle is holding a contest calling for haikus about work. Turns out there are a lot of work and job-related haikus on the Web. Some faves germane to the current economy, gleaned from here, here, here, here, and here: Poverty Is So In Bad economy means no big bonus for me. Must [...]