ursulav shouldn't get to be this brilliant AND a good artist too!

"I firmly believe that every single religion, and the total lack thereof, has the right to have cheapass plastic light-up crap that can be wedged in the front yard. It's Isaac Newton's birthday, that's a holiday I can get behind, let's make a plastic light-up Newton bearing presents. I draw the line at sacrificing a bull for Mithras, because I am squeamish and he's a very fraternal god and probably wouldn't appreciate women doin' that sorta thing,* but a plastic light up bull with strings of red Christmas lights wrapped tightly around its throat and spilling in gory streamers onto the lawn strikes me as fabulous. Bring it all!"

Christmas special time. I'm a sucker for bunch of different Christmas TV specials, especially Nightmare Before Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Dr. Seuss, Boris Karloff, and Chuck Jones as a team. Dude.), but a bunch of them leave me cold, too. Not just the cheesy smarmy "And a bunch of plucky kids save Christmas and learn Important Lessons about Sharing and Caring and Blah Blah Blah. No, some of the favorite ones just leave me cold. Like I mentioned last year, a Christmas Story just feels mean, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation isn't all that funny, either. There's some funny bits, but most of the funny bits are the kind that are funnier in memory, or when quoting, then when actually watching the movie.

I don't know what it is about these two in particular that leaves me cold, especially since they're two of my dad's favorite movies. So, I dunno. But they just don't work for me.