Have
A Cool Yule, Ya'll!
If I have any sanity left at this point this should be
the last 'toon until Monday. But ya never know. Either
way,
I
hope each and every one of you wunnerful peoples have
the happiest of holidays.
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As much as I love the movie "It's A Wonderful Life" it
would have been MUCH shorter, and more logical, had it
begun with the angels, or whatever they are, contemplating
George Bailey's
life
and
concluding
the answer to his adult problems was to immediately give
Old Man Potter a massive coronary. The End.
To be honest, I shouldn't enjoy this movie as its plot
relies entirely on the existence of magic, which means
anything is possible, which equates to lazy screen writing.
I'm equally critical of movies involving time travel
(except for Primer) for the same reason. I'm a hard audience,
but I'm a sucker for Frank Capra.
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While I'm being a buzz-killing little snot:
In Clement Moore's famous poem, "A Visit From St.
Nicholas", Santa
is described as an elf driving a miniature sleigh
pulled by eight
tiny reindeer.
Santa and his herd of critters, at least by Moore's
account, should probably be closer to the size of a bread
box
than a fully loaded Peterbuilt.
The only reason popular media depicts, and continues
to depict, a full-size Santa/sleigh/reindeer is we didn't
have CGI back in the day to shrink them down believably
and now we're stuck.
Moore's original poem is not unlike the Bible in that
people take the parts of it they like and ignore the
inconvenient ones.
Enjoy your shrimp, evangelicals.
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Allow me to recommend my very favorite rendition
of Winter
Wonderland, sung by Shirley Horn.
=Lefty=
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