- For my money the bittersweet but HILARIOUS Christmas Americana of A Christmas Story mops the floor with It's a Wonderful Life's fairy tale take on capitalism and small town America, and in honor of this I give you audio clips from this American masterpiece. For the babyboomers it apparently gets it right (according to reports), and for anybody who's ever been a kid it get's that right too: gawking at department store window toy displays, the kid-centric inner world where the kids saves the day in his dreams, having your innocence taken for the first time by corporate America, enduring bullies and their toadies, having to wear gifts you wouldn't be caught dead in, getting disciplined for foul language learnt from a parental figure, sticking yer tongue to a frozen metal pole... it captures all of it. God bless Jean Sheppard, and God bless this movie.
- That said Donna Reed is the bomb in It's a Wonderful Life... wholesome and alluring. Ha cha cha.
- Last night's midnight mass at Holy Spirit wasl most likely my last at that venerable parish as it's days are numbered and will soon be folded into another parish community, and that is sad. We've been going to midnight mass for over 10 years, and while the hymnal entertainment fluctuates in terms of quality the buzz I nurse and enjoy during the mass does not. Maybe it's a Buffalo thing, going to midnight mass after enjoying a Christmas Eve's worth of pops, or maybe it's a Parks thing, I don't know; I do know that midnight mass is better under the influence- the frankencense more powerful and my goodwill toward men crests, and it is good, and tonight's was no different. Alas, I will miss midnight mass at Holy Spirit.
- But that great parish will not go softly into that good night! Holy Spirit is opening a food pantry, convening their first parish council in 25 years, and organizing Kissing Bridge ski trips for the CYO and parish at large. Fight the power!
- It was exactly one year ago tonight that the TiVo taped the Austin City Limits with The Flaming Lips and I couldn't possibly delete it: the overabundance of joy in the studio that night... the confetti and balloons and people in cartoon animal costumes dancing and carrying on... the pluperfect rendition of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"... it is the perfect Christmas Eve entertainment and I enjoyed it again before passing out.
Merry Christmas folks.
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