Another year over … Hard to believe another 365 days of movie and TV and song and book-filled wonder has passed and we’re here once again greeting Santa Claus with cookies and milk (and likely a zombie, a twerker and faulty stars too). Given it is almost the end Continue Reading
Christmas 2014
On the 12th day of Christmas … I decorated my tree with pop culture icons
When I bought my first Christmas tree as an adult in 1992 – I was technically an adult for about a decade before that but it took some money and a mindset change before I got around to acquiring my own tree; for years, in my mind at least, the only Continue Reading
Timely Christmas message: Sir Ian McKellen and Cookie Monster learn how to resist
If ever there was a word with which we all need to be familiar at this time of the year, it’s “Resist”. But like Cookie Monster, who doesn’t quite get the concept, the idea of it evades many of us as we saunter off for another bathtub of eggnog, Continue Reading
On the 11th day of Christmas … I watched “The Grimm Who Stole Christmas”
* HO HO HO! THERE ARE SPOILERS BELOW! ** “I have but to swallow this, and be for the rest of my days persecuted by a legion of goblins, all of my own creation. Humbug, I tell you; humbug.” Christmas is without a doubt a most magical time of Continue Reading
On the 10th day of Christmas … I listened to Idina Menzel’s Holiday Wishes
There’s no doubting the sheer awe-inspiring talent of the voice of Frozen, Tony Award-winning Broadway veteran Idina Menzel. She has a voice straight from the gods, one that combines fearsome power and delicate beauty, the sort of stage presence money cannot buy, and the kind of vibrant personality that has Continue Reading
On the 9th day of Christmas … I read Everything I Need to Know About Christmas I Learned From a Little Golden Book
If there is one thing I learnt very early on in life, it’s that Little Golden Books have a lot to teach a person. It doesn’t matter what the circumstance may be, the simple life lessons of these gloriously-drawn, perfectly-worded books provide all the instructions you need to make Continue Reading
On the 8th Day of Christmas … I watched the movie A Merry Friggin’ Christmas
We love our families. We hate our families. It’s a war of competing, diametrically-opposed emotions for most families each Christmas who, though they long for tree-decorating, eggnog-sipping harmony, usually end up with the festive version of War of the Roses. Perhaps that it is a little extreme, but the Continue Reading
Squeeze the cheese and poke the pony: Tonight Show Random Phrase Carols
It’s true. Even those of us among the Christmas junkie tribe – you know who you are and saying “Bah Humbug!” in that desultory fashion won’t disguise the fact for a second -will admit to getting a teensy-weensy itty-bitty little bit tired of singing the same old lyrics to Continue Reading
On the 7th day of Christmas … I watched classic Frasier episode “High Holidays”
Life isn’t easy if you’re Frasier or Niles Crane. Well, it’s not easy in a self-perceived sense anyway. Armed with firm ideas on what constitutes a life well-lived – the right seats at the opera/favourite restaurant/major event where everyone will see you, the best food and wine, an apartment Continue Reading
Who ya gonna call at the North Pole? Final trailer for Doctor Who Christmas special “Last Christmas”
“C’mon it’s Christmas! At the North Pole! Who ya gonna call?” I am guessing not the Ghostbusters team, despite the insistent bouncy hum off the iconic theme song in my head, but rather one Santa Claus, played with swagger and brio and just the right amount of Santa-ness – Continue Reading