From the Desk of…
The news shops mostly shutter for the holidays. Why are you even checking your emails? Hyperloop One, once touted as the future, has been designated for the dust bin of history pending its closure. Gee, maybe trains would be easier and faster? Dunno. Maybe billionaires aren’t the brain geniuses everyone should listen to. Meanwhile, loosening child labor laws has led to, you guessed it, child labor. Seems to me that the simple solution to having children die in industrial accidents would be to… not have them there? Whitehall City Attorney Brad Nicodemus is gonna be investigating Mayor Andy Ginther for that phone call he made to the judge. I’m not holding my breath, but it would be pretty funny for something to stick to ol’ Mayor Redflex for once.
But hey, fewer scooters littering the sidewalks soon. Maybe.
The Brain Dump
wondering what life would be like if a 70-year-old grandmother designed a bra for elderly women that is popular all over the world
tired of this gd hill. make God run down here for once
you could fix the third act of a lot of movies by having 9/11 happen to the characters
i don't want to end the year on bad terms with anybody so if you've got a problem with me, you have a little more than a week to get over it
deleting the apps and finding love the old fashioned way (giving someone a little treat each day until the heart meter turns pink and I can buy the blue feather)
It’s been both a good and bad time for me to realize that Harvest Moon 64 is now available through Nintendo Switch Online. Very easy timesink for me. Still, I had to have watched some movies, right?
At the Movies
I need to get back to the dang theater.
A Castle for Christmas (2021), dir. Mary Lambert ⭐⭐⭐
ok. made me want to watch another festive movie about an outsider spending the holidays in the Scottish highlands... the celebrations of May Day, perhaps
The Night of the Hunter (1955), dir. Charles Laughton ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ❤️
like two minutes in people figured out Harry Powell was very influential on me
Prancer (1989), dir. John D. Hancock ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial x John Swartzwelder's "Bart Gets an Elephant" x Gabriel García Márquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
lot to like here and a lot of room to grow, I can see this turning into a five as I reflect on it
Promising Young Woman (2020), dir. Emerald Fennell ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Wes Anderson x Jack Hill
if Fennell has ever seen a Jack Hill movie, I'll go on a revenge rampage of my own
if it had been better or smarter, it wouldn't have been a Fennell (my version: make it straight exploitation and up the kill count considerably. none of this twee bs with bo burnham. though bo was right when he called jennifer coolidge "extremely hot")
Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas (1977), dir. Jim Henson ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ❤️
When the mountain touches the valley, all the clouds are taught to fly
As our souls will leave this land most peacefully.
Though our minds be filled with questions, in our hearts we'll understand
When the river meets the sea.Like a flower that has blossomed in the dry and barren sand,
We are born and born again most gracefully.
Thus the winds of time will take us with a sure and steady hand
When the river meets the sea.Patience, my brother and
Patience, my son,
In that sweet and final hour
Truth and justice will be done.Like a baby when it is sleeping in its loving mother's arms,
What a newborn baby dreams is a mystery.
But his life will find a purpose and in time he'll understand
When the river meets the sea.
When the river meets the almighty sea.
One Picture
I still don’t know what this ad wants me to buy
In closing,
Stop reading your emails. You don’t have much time left this year. Go do anything that isn’t read an email. Thanks. See you next year.
Ok but is that… a chicken nugget?