Another challenge! A very big one, since we are dealing with the giant of Christmas pop songs, “White Christmas”. Biggest selling single in American music history, TO THIS DAY!!!!
Continue readingI did it! Took the whole long Thanksgiving weekend with lots of breaks, but I got all my decorations up. Now, time to move on to making presents.
Continue readingHappy Monday! I am so sleepy! The sun is down for 15 hours now, and I also want to sleep for 15 hours. Why must I live by the clocks instead of the sun??? I’m so tired!
Continue readingAnother groupthink challenge! Another classic Christmas song! My goodness, America has a lot of weird depressing Christmas songs. It really is the Seasonal Affective Disorder holiday.
Continue readingThis is like the third time we’ve done this, don’t care. It’s Friends! It’s the one pop culture artifact that everyone everywhere in the world has an awareness of! And which has some very very strong archetypes that are fun to translate to other cultures.
Continue readingHow time flies! Already week 4! Pretty soon I am going to run through all the WatchAlong regulars, and the non-watchalongers will finally have a chance.
Continue readingI was listening to my Great Christmas Playlist Shuffle and this question popped into my mind. Let’s groupsource it! I’m curious what other people think. And if nothing else, you get to listen to two shockingly beautiful simple musical recordings.
Continue readingHappy Saturday! I’m gonna walk the dog, and then get fancy drive through coffee, and then go pick up my LIVE Christmas tree. Normally I do fake trees, but I am hosting this year, plus it just seems nice to have a live tree sometimes.
Continue readingWoo-hoo! A movie I haven’t seen!!!! And neither have many of you! This will be nerve-wracking, what if we don’t like it?
Continue readingHappy day after Thanksgiving! This is just the best holiday, isn’t it? The day after I mean. No work, tons of food, and everyone is just sort of sleepy and well-fed and happy. At some point I’m gonna have the energy to leave my parents’ and go back to my place and set up my Christmas tree, but not yet.
Continue readingWoo-hoo! Post-Thanksgiving watchalong!!!! Of a movie I haven’t seen yet, so I have NO IDEA if it is good or bad or if I will like it or not. But I do know it has a Christmas scene, which is all that matters.
Continue readingA thinky post! That pulls together all kinds of different things I am thinking about! Including Thanksgiving, so it’s a holiday post.
Continue readingLook at this photo my wonderful Aunt just sent me!!!! That’s me shoving stuffing in the turkey with Grandma supervising and my sister waiting her turn. Grandma’s hands look so old, and mine look so young.
Happy Wednesday! My back is finally cure! Yaaaaaaay!!! Turns out, the Miracle Cure is Rest and Time. How very very boring. Anyway, I’m hoping for a slow work day so I can do the cleaning and organizing I have been putting off.
Continue readingChristmas season officially starts THIS FRIDAY!!!! So I want to watch Christmas Movies. By a broad definition of including at least one scene that is Christmas related, OR being about Illegitimate Babies.
Continue readingGenevieve asked me, and I don’t know the answer, so I am throwing it out there for GroupThink.
Continue readingWooo, 5 years! My self-imposed deadline for figuring out what the heck I want to do with this blog is UP. Read on, if you want to know what I decided.
Continue readingHappy Monday!!!! And Happy Thanksgiving Week! I am so happy to have a half week, once my back finishes fixing itself I am going to do so much cleaning!
Continue readingThis is the slowest time in blogville, holidays are getting everyone busy and stuff, so it seems like a good time for me to post something controversial. Only my old friends who will read carefully and thoughtfully are hanging around. You don’t have to agree with me, but I know the DCIB regulars will at least take me seriously and consider what I say.
Continue readingI’ve asked this before, but really it is a timeless question. And why not revisit this vital issue again?
Continue readingAlready week 3! The holiday season goes so fast! And now it’s Kirre’s turn.
Continue readingGood morning! I have walked the dog, made coffee, and I am all ready to be soothed by beautiful Goa and beautiful SRK.
Continue readingHappy Saturday!!! I am going to do my Saturday morning watchalong (yaaaaaaay!!!), and otherwise be lazy.
Continue readingWhat a very pleasant little movie! Not a perfect movie, not a deep movie, not even that involving of a movie much of the time. But very very pleasant.
Continue readingI finally watched it! Over a year after it released on Netflix and most other people saw it! But whatever, in this strange world of sliding release dates and straight to streaming products, I am still giving it a “no spoilers” and a “spoilers” separate review.
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