The Gold Box deal of the day over at Amazon today is the Rankin-Bass Christmas Classics for 57% off.

Get the DVD for only $12.99 (down from the list price of $29.93) and the Blu-ray for only $19.49 (down from the list price of $44.95).

Note, this sale is only for today, Sunday November 21, until midnight PST while supplies last.

The Blu-ray version includes Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, Frosty the Snowman, and Frosty Returns, while the DVD comes with all of these, plus three more: Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, Little Drummer Boy, and Cricket on the Hearth.

As Adam Sandler reminded us in his “The Chanukah Song,” Chanukah is the Festival of Lights that lasts for eight crazy nights. This year’s Chanukah festivities began last night and in celebration, Neil Diamond has released a video of his version of Sandler’s holiday favorite.

Check out the animated music video for Diamond’s version of “The Chanukah Song” embedded here below.

Let’s face it, “The Chanukah Song,”was really a Neil Diamond song from the beginning, I’m surprised it took this long for Diamond to figure it out. The cover tune was part of Diamond’s recent holiday album A Cherry Cherry Christmas, which also includes mainly Christmas classics like “White Christmas,” “Winter Wonderland,” and “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.”

Happy Holidays Readers of Doom,

Wow! This has been an amazing year for Geeks of Doom. Together, our team of selfless contributors has helped us publish over 1,750 articles this year — reviews, features, news items, and opinion pieces from every corner of the geeky spectrum.

Our team of contributors has grown exponentially. So many AWESOME people have decided to freely pitch-in and help make Geeks of Doom what it is. We’re nothing without our contributors and you all help create a fresh and interesting place for geeks like us to hang out and opine off a cliff. Thank you, guys and gals of DOOM! I mean it. THANK YOU!

We made a lot of great new friends in the film blogger community as well. Thank you all for your friendship and all the help along the way: David, Devindra, Adam, Peter, Alex, Kelvin, Vic, Neil, Mike, Wil (please forgive me if I left someone out. I’m still rockin’ a pretty big Francis Ford Coppola wine hangover). You each rule mightily in your own way. Thanks for being both friends and examples to us. Every day is a learning experience and you all make learning waaay more fun then school ever did.

If you’re having trouble figuring out when you’ll have time to take ridiculous holiday pictures for use in our first annual LOLsanta Picture Contest then fear not (just this once) Geek brethren. This past weekend myself, an epic professional photographer and Metromix Nashville contributor Erin Cubert attended the Santa Rampage 2008. There was a Santa marching band, Santas dancing on a bar at Coyote Ugly, Santas friggin’ everywhere! (One Santa even had to flee the bars and hide in a trash can due to an insane amount of bras being thrown at him…seriously.)

And because we want to make it even easier to enter the contest and win prizes, we uploaded over 50 photos to Flickr. So go check it out so you can LOL, and then make everyone else LOL.

Contest Link, Geeks of Doom on Flickr, Metromix

This year we are proud to announce the first annual LOLsanta picture contest. So basically what that means is:

1. Find a bunch of people dressed as Santa, Elves, Will Ferrell Elf, Reindeer, Snowmen, and Snowomen, etc. and take a picture of them.
2. Add your own LOL-cat-like tag line to it
3. Send a link of the picture over to @geeksofdoom on Twitter or submit a link to your LOLsanta picture in our shiny contest application below after the jump.

Prizes: Holiday Booty (not that kind)
A chance to win comics, EXCLUSIVE Geeks of Doom gear, DVDs, other stuff, and some eggnog that will not taste good by the time we ship it to you. (Seriously.)

RULES: The contest rules are pretty open to anything as long as it’s essentially not illegal (or morally wrong) and can make us laugh. We’ll post the winner, as well as many honorable mentions, on Christmas Day. All entries must be in by Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 9pm EST. This contest is only open to residents of North America. No international entries will be accepted. Winners will be chosen by select Geeks of Doom staff from valid entries and will be notified by email and/or twitter.com. Void where prohibited. NOTE: We will not sell your contact info into spam slavery. Enter with confidence.