progressive politics and regressive entertainment. like peanut and butter.
December 25, 2011 Leave a comment
Drove back home across the Bay Bridge tonight, stomach stuffed with risotto and ginger soup, noticing that there seemed to be a lot of broken-down cars on the highways tonight. People trying to make it to see family in whatever vehicle they could find? Or some folk fleeing from family? Whatever the case with you, I hope you had cause to celebrate, and celebrate well. G’nite.
December 25, 2011 Leave a comment
December 25, 2011 2 Comments
The Catholic Church has had a few moral lapses of its own, to put it mildly, but it’s interesting whenever anyone points out that Christianity’s fundamental moral tenets are at odds with an economic system that places purchases ahead of people — i.e., Capitalism without constraints.
December 25, 2011 Leave a comment
I was fascinated by holiday specials as a child, because they seemed so…special. I knew about many of them but didn’t know when they aired or how to find out. We didn’t subscribe to TV Guide or own a VCR, but we did wind up seeing The Year Without a Santa Claus enough for me to remember Snow Miser and Heat Miser with great affection.
December 25, 2011 Leave a comment
The latest podcast of Doug Loves Movies ties together several of my recent posts, in part because two of the twelve guests were Freaks and Geeks star Samm Levine and WTF’s host Marc Maron. It’s a special Christmas episode with additional players such as Jimmy Pardo, Brian Posehn, and Sarah Silverman. If you like the idea of Hollywood comedians bantering with each other in an unscripted forum, then this might be a good episode to start listening to DLM. If that idea turns you off, then run very far away, as it’s a particularly long episode, due to the number of guests, all of whom are shown in this very white photo:
