As you can imagine, after a half-century of Christmases a lot of them exhibit some degree of sameness. Traditions do that, being that you have a routine that is more-or-less followed year after year. Even so, amid the truckloads of presents and visits by Santa, I’ve managed to have a memory or two stick with me.
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It seems to happen every Christmas: your beloved uncle brings home a perfect-for-you stranger just before the holiday and he makes your ill-suited boyfriend suspicious and jealous. Amazingly, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year does better than most at keeping an entertaining balance.
Read more...Remember back when there was mention on another blog that the Fox lawyers had examined The Connor Wars to that point and …
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“The Bucket List” is an interesting concept: a list of things that you want to do before you die (a/k/a “kicking the bucket”). It’s like a checklist of goals to achieve before it’s too late to achieve them. The lists are as varied as there are people.
Read more...Being a programmer-type-fellow, I found this hilarious…and a marvelous idea. (Yes, I’m a geek…how can you not know this by now?) xkcd: …
Read more...While the ISU–and NIST for that matter–is really clear on this (I, too, have read the documents), the fact is that separating …
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What child can’t relate to the problem posed in A Christmas Story: Ralphie Parker wants a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas. He commits himself to the quest of getting his beloved present despite life tossing numerous obstacles in his path.
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This is what happens if you take equal parts A Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful Life and set it in Ireland with the protagonist being a doctor who has sworn off love and is instead becoming married to her career.
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Following a young woman in this period piece, An Old-Fashioned Christmas, opts to break out of the traditional formula for a holiday film and delivers, instead, a solid story filled with choices, consequences, love, disappointment, greed, and good old-fashioned humanity. The question is: does it deliver on the holiday theme?
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Calling Miracle on 34th Street a Christmas classic is a lot like calling chocolate just another candy. Some movies stand head-and-shoulders above the rest, and this classic stands even higher than that in the holiday pantheon.
Read more...I’ve been having issues with my ad-serving plugin after a version update. I’m trying to resolve this. Except for some formatting/aesthetic issues, …
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A while back I wrote 6 Things That Still Irk Me About Charmed. This time we’ll swing the pendulum the other way and look at some things that always make me happy I’ve been a fan of Charmed for so long.
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Ben Bernake is correct that the economy is stratifying, but can’t see that education is largely irrelevant as a practical reason for the dangerous economic condition of the US.
Read more...Politicians, yes, and many judges, too. Not just science per se, but basic research. You never know which connection will be key …
Read more...I don’t think we’ll ever have the definitive answer, but the evidence presented here does point to Gwenn. I’m comfortable with that. …
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Christmas movies are a lot like romance novels in that most of the time they must adhere to very familiar and well-worn tropes. Farewell Mr. Kringle succeeds in giving us a well-balanced amalgam of the familiar while still being not only engaging but likable.
Read more...Kathleen Kennedy Townsend takes Palin to task for being the religious ethnocrat her rhetoric colors her as. Sarah Palin is wrong about …
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The Maryland women’s basketball team has a youthful core that is very reminiscent of the 2005-06 championship team. They still have some tweaking, though, to reach that level–sometimes they look like a very young team. Fortunately, these adjustments are few and mostly “easily” done.
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