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Merry Christmas!"Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot,
but the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville, did not.
The Grinch hated Christmas - the whole Christmas season.
Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason.
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
Or maybe his head wasn't screwed on just right.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
may have been that his heart was two sizes too small."
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
What are your favorite Christmas related or themed movies?
- It's a Wonderful Life - It's a film everyone has to watch at least once.
- Miracle on 34th Street (1994) - I think I enjoy this version of the film more because of Elizabeth Perkins.
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Oh, the holidays with the family, they don't get any more ridiculous than this.
- A Charlie Brown Christmas - Sometimes I don't like watching Charlie Brown because he really makes me sad. I hate seeing 8 year old kids so depressed, but this is a classic and everyone has to watch this at least once in their life.
- Home Alone - I was ten years old when this film came out and it was the best thing I've ever seen. I wished my parents would leave me home alone for a week, not exactly at Christmas time because who would buy my toys?
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) - To be honest, I always sided with the Grinch, those Who's in Whoville were just too high and mighty for my taste.
- Roots: The Gift - It's Roots man, Roots! You have to enjoy this spin off of the mini-series where some slaves actually get free - at Christmas time no less!
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV Special 1964) - The Island of the Misfit Toys always bummed me out (you won't believe what problem A Dolly for Sue's problem was - spoiler alert, it was psychological according to wikipedia).
During this segment of the Martha Stewart Show, Snoop Dogg told Martha Stewart to "turn the oven up to 420" and it went completely over her head. Of course, that reference would have gone over my head a year ago, until I did this post back in Sept 2008 about the meaning of the number 420.
“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.”
- Redd Foxx
"Today, I realized that Santa Claus is clearly a wizard using the Floo network and an extensive amount of house elves. Also possibly a levitation spell on a sleigh pulled by hippogriffs transfigured into reindeer."
- Malfoyy tumblr site
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. That is, my feet are in it; the rest of me is on the draining-board, which I have padded with our dog's blanket and the tea-cosy."
First sentences of I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
This pillow allows you to write down "Everyone I've Slept With"...
Remember Omar (Michael K. Williams) from The Wire, Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) from New Jack City, Jake (Ethan Hawke) from Training Day?
"I was walking along a path with two friends — the sun was setting — suddenly the sky turned blood red — I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence — there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city — my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety — and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature."
- Edvard Munch, on the experience which inspired his famous painting, The Scream
I can't say I paid that much attention to her film career after Clueless but I was one of those people who continued to whisper "I'll never tell" when the opportunity presented itself after watching the film Don't Say a Word.
Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette, oil on canvas, 1885 by Vincent van Gogh“The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
— Haruki Murakami
