Christmas is an awfulness that compares favorably with the great London plague and fire of 1665-66. No one escapes the feelings of mortal dejection, inadequacy, frustration, loneliness, guilt and pity. No one escapes feeling used by society, by religion, by friends and relatives, by the utterly artificial responsibilities of extending false greetings, sending banal cards, … Continue reading “Happy Holidays”
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RiffTrax – Fun in Balloonland
“The United States of America does not recognize the country of Balloon Land or any of its claimed territories or principalities.”
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The Star Wars Holiday Special
Back in 1978, this happened…
Mmmm, Stewed Terrapin
Junior Miss (1945)
Newtonian Swag: 2024
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Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe – Roger Penrose |
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The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 – Doris Lessing |
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission – Hampton Sides |
Mmmm, Thermo-stabilized turkey
So, shall I begin the Christmas story?
Absolutely, as long as it’s not that terribly depressing one about the chap who gets born on Christmas Day, shoots his mouth off about everything under the sun, and then comes a cropper with a couple of rum coves on top of a hill in Johnny Arab land. — from Black Adder’s Christmas Carol
RiffTrax – A Christmas Carol
“Coronet, because be honest, you don’t want to see a Christmas film from ACI.”
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