Looks like I'll make it through another Christmas! I owe everything to my wonderful room mate, who dutifully kept the Joyous Season of Christmas slammed soundly on the other side of our front door. I love him!
All kidding aside, I don't do that well during the holidays. There are the usual old and tired excuses -- the commericalization of Christmas, the conflict of "Christmas" vs. "Holiday", the absence of spirituality. But those are old reasons. I don't really have any new ones.
The idea is supposedly to make your own traditions, to start up Christmas traditions that you really enjoy, not that you end up doing because you have always done them. We have a few. On Christmas morning, as we open our gifts, we play the DVD version of that Yule Log. Years ago, it was a joke because we don't have a fireplace in our apartment. But over the years, I really do enjoy it.
We also usually spend an evening watching the classic Christmas stop-motion classics, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, and The Year Without a Santa Claus. Or How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
But over the past several days, they've been playing a marathon of Star-Trek Voyager, and well... I just couldn't control myself.
We also watched Forbidden Planet on DVD. I haven't watched it from beginning to end since I was in my early teens, watching it in blackc-and-white on Saturday afternoons, before the days of cable tv. It was even more amazing and entertaining seeing it in the cleaned up color letterbox version. Although, now that I see it it its entirety, I notice that more than half of the movie was Leslie Nielsen's attempts to get into Anne Francis' underpants.
I'm working the weekend, starting Saturday night and then Christmas Eve. I'll be getting off duty in the cold crisp clear morning of Christmas Day. And so, in the joyous spirit of Christmas, I would like to wish you...
oh frakk it,
I too noticed that about the Leslie Neilsen character, though at the time geekified me was also consumed by the parallels to "The Tempest."
Posted by: shrimplate | December 29, 2006 at 12:08 PM
Consumed! They might have lasted three episodes of Star Trek :-)
Posted by: Eric135 | December 24, 2006 at 06:38 PM
That initial shot of that PS3 article, is actually from the iBook Stampede that henrico county VA had last summer. Too Funny I actually recognize that picture.
Did you guys get the cookies I sent? Merry Christmas! K
Posted by: Karen | December 24, 2006 at 08:24 AM