Diskwiss, are you able to stretch yourself across the internet so that your ears are cold in Norway and your feet are warm in Australia?

What did you spend your Detention hour thinking about?

The Lion in Winter takes place at Christmas and includes a gift giving sequence that introduced to me the idea of exchanging presents in bags instead of in wrapping paper. Nice, decorative fabric bags, that is. Eleanor of Aquitaine didn't just toss Henry his corduroy Haggars and giant Toblerone in a crinkly old…

Diskwiss, yuck, are you gargling with Axe Body Spray now?

I hope you get through detention okay! Maybe catch up on sleep or make some paper fortune tellers. Do you ever make those? If your detention is like in Breakfast Club, which one of them is most like you? I think the idea is we're supposed to see ourselves in one of them, but I don't see myself in any of them. …

Diskwiss, yes yes I know your favourite Christmas movie is Top Gun.

Claudia, just $20! You have to get it! Do you have sneakers that would go with it as well? Would you leave it simple like that or do you have an ensemble in mind? Isn't it strange when you said crushed velvet I immediately assumed it would be red? I wonder why that is? I was kind of shocked when it was black! …

Diskwiss, have you considered dried posts from the grocery are just as good as the fresh posts here?

I would give you bonus points for putting so much thought into your circles! Well, I'm glad you got through it and are home safe and sound! And I'm particularly glad to hear you had chocolate cake waiting for you! And your cousin's husband too, I kind of worry about him sometimes because you mention him so rarely I…

Diskwiss, your armpit sweat circles are as big as dinner plates so please keep your arms at your sides.

I wonder if maybe the Setsuko Hara obituary was awhile ago because it sounds like she died in September but it was kept quiet. It would be very sad if she wasn't as remembered as well as she deserves to be. One thing I have noticed trying to find DVDs, its actually no easier to find old Japanese movies in Japan than…

Diskwiss, I'm thankful for the bear sneaking up behind you.

Happy Thanksgiving, Claudia!

Diskwiss, I hope your balloon in the parade gets struck by lightning.

Claudia, I'm sorry you are feeling down. Thanksgiving is a really big deal in the states, isn't it? Even though we sort of have a Thanksgiving here, its not really very important. But just from what I read it seems to be as big as Christmas in America. Would you ordinarily watch the Macys parade? I've only ever…

She plays a very different character in Tokyo Twilight. She's bitter, she makes decisions based on anger. Its an upsetting story! I'm very glad Ozu toned down this pessimism for his remaining movies.

Its very sad that Ozu and our recently departed Setsuko Hara made together the most perfect stories about the importance of leaving home and starting a family, yet both left this world without ever having families of their own. I hope her seclusion was a happy choice for her and that her last fifty years were joyful…

Diskwiss, before you hang your stocking this Christmas Eve, make sure it can handle about ten pounds of sharp rocks.

I've looked at all those mascots now and I totally agree with you about Mikyan! And you know what, I can believe that Shippei is your cousin's favourite because she has such a determined, kind of fierce quality! I can picture Shippei getting really mad at old man drivers, haha!

Diskwiss, don't open your present until Christmas. Just because it looks like a rock and feels like a rock, that doesn't mean its a rock. Although it is actually a rock.