Lasties!

Cool beans!

Clearly there is a profound disconnect between Mr. VanDerWerff's tastes and mine, because I would definitely consider this one of the five or so best episodes of Glee, of any season.

I have mixed feelings about Maher, but overall he's a really smart - and really funny - guy.  The whole 9/11 coward comment thing was overblown - he was right, but in daring to express such an unpopular opinion he got screwed.

"My Favorite Things" doesn't just mention "packages" but also sleigh bells and snowflakes and white winters.  Plus it's one of the greatest songs ever written. And it's in a movie that is frequently played during the holidays.  Seem like good enough reasons to me for it to be a Christmas standard. Would you really…

I just want to say I hope you do another advent calendar next year, I enjoy the feature and doing it multiple years would justify covering some of the less "Christmas"y Christmas specials, like this one.

Two "still"s are better than one!

It's okay, I'm fat, I'm allowed. But at least I'm not Scottish!

I'm the king of the wooorld!!

Okay, let's cast this mofo.  I nominate Susan Boyle as Fat Bastard.

I don't think they could have picked a screenshot of gameplay that showed less about what the game is actually like.

First thing that popped in my mind was Dr. Marvin Monroe from the Simpsons.

So this would put you in the same camp as a lot of other people, who feel that plot is an essential characteristic to something being a worthwhile work of art and/or entertainment.

The show isn't about an overall plot arc but about a succession of humorous moments.  Whether one likes the show depends on 1) whether one can accept this, and 2) how much humor you find in any given joke.

"one of the best films in the last decade"

Ah, for the carefree days of my early teen years, the first time I unwittingly stumbled into one of the corners of the World Wide Web featuring lovingly drawn images of Bart and Lisa having shameful incestuous relations.

Survivor this year, with Cochrane, has been more entertaining than any season of the overrated Amazing Race.

Apparently the author Dennis Christen "wrote, starred in, and produced the award winning feature film Soldiers of Innocence. The film was nominated for two Grand Bell Awards and won the Best New Director."

No, the character is named "Concept Art" - the coming soon is a plot description.

Ahh… it's beginning to smell a lot like Christmas. :)