Who’s going around writing new versions of old church songs with syncopation and new bridges? ‘O Come O Come Emmanuel’ was FINE.

I realize haven’t ordered my life in a way to attain this goal but just once I would like to point to the brass section of a band just as they come in. I think it would be a very powerful feeling.

Have yourself a Mary Shelley Christmas Bring dead flesh to life Now your monster’s Asking you to build a wife

I know they hang a lamp on it but the business model of Holiday Inn really doesn’t make any sense at all.

Something about Fred Astaire is just fun to look at physically. Like a cartoon character.

Marvel is wild because somebody will show up wearing the yellow suit and the little X belt and it’s like, oh I guess they can summon eldritch monsters from another dimension because they have a couple extra base pairs.

Carpooling with your wife to buy Christmas presents for her while she’s in the store adds a fun little frisson of intrigue to the whole affair.

Look, I am ready to follow Remedy anywhere and that goes double for Control, but at base the delta between my interest in playing as Jesse Faden vs playing as her brother is vast.

Just slipped on the ice carrying my baby girl down the stairs AKA the nightmare. (It was the baby girl who is three years old and she seems to be more or less fine)

Man, thank goodness Ebenezer Srooge wasn't Jewish though, that's like, twenty-four ghosts.

I'm not going to pretend this looks, like, "good" or "well considered" or anything like that. but I have to concede that reworking a pretty direct soviet union allegory into being about Silicon Valley/Late stage capitalism is at least interesting and possibly not a wrong impulse.

I always forget how big wind turbines are until I drive past them. there's something eerie and unearthly about them looming out of the mist. like a kaiju but in a way that makes you feel fundamentally better about the state of the world.

You think Mary and Joseph sold that Frankincense and Myrrh? Like it’s a nice gesture but if you are not already pretty set up financially it is kind of frivolous to keep around.

I think it’s time we collectively acknowledge that “you too” means “I reciprocate your expressed general good wishes regardless of how the specifics of our immediate circumstances may differ” and move on with our lives.

I think it’s fun that extremely minor one joke Peanuts character 5 and his even more obscure sisters 3 and 4 are immortalized in Charlie Brown Christmas largely because it came out after Sherry but before Peppermint Patty, Marcie and Franklin.

Gritting my teeth and trying to white knuckle myself into a childlike excitement about heavy snowfall despite having to shovel and commute through it now.

Starfleet Academy preview looks promising, even if the 31st century is not my most favourite place in the era. Maybe they can build it out and make it feel lived in. Having Robert Picardo goes a long way because I am fundamentally what is known as a Mark.

Watched the Beauty and the Beast Christmas special with the kids. You think after the curse was finally broken they went up to the old pipe organ room and found Forte’s skeleton scattered all over the place?

not to give him credit, per se. but at least HP Lovecraft channeled his virulent racism into something productive. like, pretty much the worst case scenario for an author, but gotta be close to the best case for a big old racist.

My posts would do better numbers if I was posting at peak hours* *3 AM when my wife nursing the baby and looking at my profile.

If it’s the end of history why is the moral arc of it still so long?

I could never be a professional chef because I just realized I habitually grind my teeth when I’m chopping

This is my seasonal plea that we all cool it on the grinch a bit. he's fine. that one cartoon was pretty good. he hasn't got the juice to operate on a Santa Claus level not least of all because his main thing is not liking Christmas very much. at least get Scrooge in there to spread it around some.

Real good and long running prank by Walt Disney on everybody born after 1960 to make Winnie the Pooh and just cast people who sound like that normally.

I'm all for irreverance and whimsy but leaving aside the gross negligence and incompetence (and the overt white nationalism and gutter racism etcetera) you can't be doing non stop bits in your consumer vehicles UI. also, I don't think anybody in Mad Max wears a cowboy hat.

Grandma dead in reindeer involved running-over.

The holidays can be a stressful time, but a lot of that can be attributed to the decorative Mickey and Minnie caroling Statue we all have that plays a constant five minute MIDI loop of Christmas music all day.

How about this: the great aerial battles of the first and second world wars reenacted by ice skaters wear in paper mâche planes.

Check in this old Canadian Tire catalog/ad which was is completely inscrutable until you realize that old guy was their mascot and then only mostly inscrutable.

Man, we gotta get the NDP back up on its feet in this country, if only so the liberals feel like they need to defend from the left as well as the right.

It’s an acquired skill, but it’s important to poke around a bit and make sure you pick the identically weighed, 70 gram bag of Cheezies that has the most in it.

That’s it, I’m uninstalling windows.

Every time I see an article about measles cases up in the region I want to track down some people with whatever implement of violence is whimsical enough to not catch me a ban on this website. Big mallet? Boxing glove on spring? A booby trapped piano and sheet music for Those Enduring Young Charms?

I know it's trite to say the Stranger Things kids are getting old. but boy I just saw them for the first time in a while and they are getting OLD. I watched the second season on like my second date with my wife and two days ago our son turned five.

Being Canadian is getting a small frisson of excitement when you find out something you like is filmed in Canada even when it’s on the other side of the country and Studio City Hollywood is literally closer to where you live.

Beep beep! Ride on the majuscule BUS

Ever since it came up on the Llewelyn Davis blank check I keep coming back to: “yeah, Griffin should get a vocal coach and do Little Shop” he would get that nebbishness that I am always looking for but so seldom see in castings.

When is the right age to explain to my son about his C-section birth and the end-around it gives him in matters of prophecy and destiny?

If the AI bubble crashes the economy and we don’t even get 5090 RTX cards at bargain basement prices out of it. I’m going to be pretty peeved.

Ah, the unmistakable sounds of Christmas [the high pitched whine of a small air compressor keeping a twelve foot tall illuminated Santa inflated.]

I don’t think there’s any movie actually set where I’m from, but they did film First Blood like thirty minutes from my home town and they didn’t even change the name of the town so… kinda.

What’s the point of doing Thomas the Tank Engine with computer animation? It’s like trying to spice up your magic act by using after effects.

Love with the way Stompin’ Tom Connor’s pronounces “potatoes”

My neighbour tells me bird flu keeps killing his ostriches so I asked him how many ostriches he’s quarantined and he said he was just letting them get herd immunity so I said it sounds like he was just infecting ostriches with bird flu and then his Gen-Z Dutch syrup merchant started crying.

You know John Wick was killing so many dudes at this thing.

It never comes up but you gotta assume Hermey is responsible for a lot of these messed up toys

If they had been making them today all the Rankin Bass Christmas specials would have been in the same canon and it would have been a mess.

They say Herbie is a misfit but he’s working on a pretty straightforward wagon or cart and every other elf is working on some inscrutable amalgam of shapes.

I was thinking about who has the most Lego minifigures of them. Not individual sets or variants, but person with the most distinct, live action characters who have minifigures made, and the answer not to get all clickbait, legitimately shocked me.

When you have a long dream about work you should be able to clock out early the next day for time served.