Archive for the ‘ Christmas ’ Category

Obligatory Family Holiday Stuff

I like most of my family. I do not waste my time on those family members whom I do not like, their pathetic attempts to induce holiday guilt notwith­standing. Funny, I haven’t spoken to some of these people in over a dozen years and they still think they can guilt slash bribe me into calling them. Or visiting. Or even acknowl­edging their existence. They just don’t get it. I really like Christmas. I’m not going to spoil it by concerning myself with unpleasant people. On a marginally-​​​​related note, has anyone had any pleasant expe­ri­ences with any of the various gift-​​​​card exchange services on the Internets? Most [ . . . ]

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2008
01/03
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The Take

This Christmas saw the addition of 53 titles to my DVD collection. Here they are: 9 to 5 A View to a Kill Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy Batman Batman Returns Blade Runner Dial M For Murder Diamonds Are Forever Die Another Day Dr. No Family Plot Foreign Correspondent For Your Eyes Only Frenzy From Russia with Love Goldeneye Goldfinger Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix I Confess License to Kill Live and Let Die Marnie Moonraker Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941, d:Hitchcock) North by Northwest Octopussy On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Psycho Ratatouille Rear Window Rope Saboteur Shadow of a Doubt Stage Fright Strangers on a Train [ . . . ]

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2007
12/30
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Christmas
Movies
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Things What Scare Me

It is difficult for me to express exactly how much this man scares me. Not just from a political stand­point, but as a person. Even the look of him portends terrible things. Perhaps he smells of doom. It isn’t even the possi­bility, however remote, that he might be elected that scares me. A theocrat at 1600 Pennsylvania couldn’t do so much damage as, say, a theocrat at One First Street. It would still be awful, but if putting up a theo­cratic government is your goal, the Oval Office isn’t the most effective route. What is really fright­ening about Mike Huckabee is that so many people — [ . . . ]

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2007
12/17
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Politics
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Buy!

Super Happy Capitalist Winter Extravaganza is near at hand! Most of you know this holiday by its much less cumbersome and more familiar name, Christmas. But let’s face it: Christmas is about buying stuff for people you like and getting stuff from them, in a fantastic orgy of sales and deco­ra­tions, smothered in a gooey outpouring of happy delicious good will. Hooray, Capitalism! In the spirit of the lively exchange of gifts, I have published The List. See the hat on the “W” in the header? You can click that, too. Not only do I like getting things for Christmas, but I like buying them for other [ . . . ]

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2007
11/18
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Excitement!
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