Elf
\nChristmas Vacation
\nA Christmas Story<\/p>\n
A+, A+, A+<\/p>\n
Holiday Baking Championship<\/a> Sad F<\/p>\n A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983): 20 CRAZY Facts You Didn\u2019t Know!<\/a> A- for content, D- for delivery<\/p>\n The Lost Version of National Lampoon\u2019s Christmas Vacation<\/a> A<\/p>\n Colbert\u2019s Canceled Christmas: The Last Noel<\/a> A<\/p>\n Platonic<\/a>, season two B+<\/p>\n A House of Dynamite<\/a> A-<\/p>\n Starting 5<\/a>, season two Netflix nailed this one, with two of their featured stars for this season, Hali and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, making it to the Finals against each other.<\/p>\n Shai\u2019s act gets on my nerves a little. He has a Kobe quality where his every action seems calculated and refined. James Harden is more interesting than I expected. Jaylen Brown is a genuinely admirable dude. And Kevin Durant is one of the greatest personalities to ever play the game. And the Pacers\u2019 ridiculous post-season run was front-and-center.<\/p>\n Put it all together and a pretty solid season two. Although I admit seeing the locker room scenes after Hali blew out his achilles was a little hard to watch.<\/p>\n A-<\/p>\n I cycled for 48 hours to get to work<\/a> A<\/p>\n Yacht Rock: A Documentary<\/a> A+<\/p>\n
\nWell, they did it. After how ever many years of watching these holiday baking shows – at least a decade – the Food Network finally drove me away. Following the semi-debacle that was this year\u2019s Halloween Baking Championship, I was hoping things would return to normal for Christmas. Alas, based on the first episode it seemed like it had also been hammered into stupidity by the producers. Too many home bakers with more personality quirks or wacky backstories than baking skills. Too much emphasis on drama and cattiness. After watching the first episode I deleted the others already queued up and canceled future recordings. Time to re-discover the British Baking Show to get my fix, I guess.<\/p>\n
\n20 CRAZY Facts About \u2018\u2018Elf (2003)\u2019\u2019<\/a>
\n20 Crazy Facts About \u2018\u2018National Lampoon\u2019s Christmas Vacation\u2019\u2019!<\/a>
\nThese pieces with the auto-generated narrators drive me nuts. There might be good content, but I can\u2019t ignore the mispronunciations and little verbal ticks. Get off my lawn!<\/p>\n
\nNow this is fantastic! Both digging up some scenes that were cut from the theatrical release of Christmas Vacation<\/em> and showing how brilliant John Hughes\u2019 original script was.<\/p>\n
\nNot sure this top\u2019s Colbert\u2019s first Christmas show, which featured John Legend\u2019s immortal \u201cNutmeg,\u201d but it\u2019s a pretty good way to end his run.<\/p>\n
\nRegular Stuff<\/h3>\n
\nMostly enjoyable, although there were some odd choices along the way. Like the weird podcasting jag by one of the supplementary characters. Lots of sophomoric humor. And the fact Seth Rogan always has gorgeous girlfriends in his shows and movies kind of annoys me. He\u2019s not an attractive dude and I\u2019m sure he smells like weed all the time.<\/p>\n
\nSad that frightening movies about potential nuclear war are no longer speculative fiction, but once again cautionary tales. I\u2019d feel much better about the world if Stringer Bell was our president than the person currently holding the office.<\/p>\n
\nWe have friends who lived a couple doors down from Tyrese Haliburton when this was filmed. They said they never saw him, but his girlfriend was often out walking their dog. So we looked for them in the background of neighborhood shots. Never saw them.<\/p>\n
\nAmazing Beau Miles bullshit.<\/p>\n
\nWe re-upped with HBO and I finally got to watch this amazing show. So much goodness in it. Not sure what my favorite part was: Thundercat. Steve Lukather\u2019s hair. How crazy prolific the dudes in Toto were. Or how much Michael McDonald and the lead singer for Ambrosia have blown up while Kenny Loggins looks as fit as ever.<\/p>\n