Sunday, November 01, 2015
Happy Holidays!
Halloween was last night, so it is now officially Christmas. At least judging by the seasonal aisle at Walgreen's. The good news is that I got some remaindered candy that I could give to my students at Northwestern. It was like $4 for sixty mini candy bars. And name brand ones, too -- not a "Snuckers" or a "Two Musketeers" among them.
The other good news is that Hallmark Channel is now running Christmas movies until they make your eyes bleed. Right now they are premiering the first official new movie of the 2015 Christmas season, "Tis the Season for Love," starring a sincere, broad-faced woman and a hunk of granite with good hair. It will be followed by a rerun of 2013's "Snow Bride," in which a reporter (that classic Hallmark Channel job) agrees to pose as someone's girlfriend for the holidays (fraud is also big in Hallmark movies) but must eventually "decide whether to take a chance on real love" (I'm guessing she just says "fuck it" and instead focuses on her career). And in case you are up all night, you can catch a repeat of 2013's "Fir Crazy" at 3 AM, which I can personally guarantee as a cure for insomnia. An unemployed executive (field of choice: business) helps her dad with their family's Christmas tree lot, with questionable results.
The bad news is that Jessica Fletcher is taking a break until January to make room for all of this. Which is probably best for the overall murder rate of Maine. Not sure it will do anything for what WMTW deems their "growing heroin problem," however.
Halloween was last night, so it is now officially Christmas. At least judging by the seasonal aisle at Walgreen's. The good news is that I got some remaindered candy that I could give to my students at Northwestern. It was like $4 for sixty mini candy bars. And name brand ones, too -- not a "Snuckers" or a "Two Musketeers" among them.
The other good news is that Hallmark Channel is now running Christmas movies until they make your eyes bleed. Right now they are premiering the first official new movie of the 2015 Christmas season, "Tis the Season for Love," starring a sincere, broad-faced woman and a hunk of granite with good hair. It will be followed by a rerun of 2013's "Snow Bride," in which a reporter (that classic Hallmark Channel job) agrees to pose as someone's girlfriend for the holidays (fraud is also big in Hallmark movies) but must eventually "decide whether to take a chance on real love" (I'm guessing she just says "fuck it" and instead focuses on her career). And in case you are up all night, you can catch a repeat of 2013's "Fir Crazy" at 3 AM, which I can personally guarantee as a cure for insomnia. An unemployed executive (field of choice: business) helps her dad with their family's Christmas tree lot, with questionable results.
The bad news is that Jessica Fletcher is taking a break until January to make room for all of this. Which is probably best for the overall murder rate of Maine. Not sure it will do anything for what WMTW deems their "growing heroin problem," however.
