My wife is convinced that, when Rizzo falls down the Cratchits chimney, what he lands on is not a goose but is, in fact, another rat. Her evidence? It's the same size and shape as Rizzo.

I don't think she's wrong.

Foobar2000 is in desperate need of a Martin Keary.

Why, and more importantly how, did Loser White Guy + Penguins become a film genre?

We're not even 15 minutes into "Wake Up Dead Man" and we're already three minutes into a flashback within a flashback. Rian seems to have adopted a tell-not-show stance for this one.

Another Christmas movie marathon in the bag. I liked "There's Something in the Barn" but it wasn't really Christmas. "Six Weeks", "Good Grief", and "Surviving Christmas" are truly three of the worst films I've ever seen in any genre.
And for anyone who didn't get to see it - I closed this years marathon with credits and an Italia-Disco remix of the opening theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T4pgVdH_WQ

I expected "Surviving Christmas" to be bad, what I didn't expect was a Tom Kenny cameo.

Oh god. There's a 20 minute minstrel act in the middle of White Christmas??

The opening credits to this years Christmas Movie Marathon is a love letter to every movie we've watched on previous marathons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX02Fa1cCWs

Storing the left over gravy in a squirt bottle is one of my best ideas ever.

And just like that, it's Christmas.

@jrconlin we had to google that. Some British talent show competitor. He recorded that version using actual takes of Whitney to make his "duet".

Talking with the wife about the has-beens and flameouts who show up on the Macys parade and I'm calling it right now - 2032 Macys parade, Leg Avenue float featuring Sabrina Carpenter.

Today Mitzi dog went to wherever it is that really really good dogs go to when they die. She was the sweetest dog I have ever met and I'm so lucky to have spent nearly 15 years with her.

This years movies for Ho x Ho Ho are locked in. No voting this year since we all know nothing would beat Hot Frosty. Also streaming some holiday tunes beforehand.

Finally got to watch the Solitary Gourmet movie and, honestly, the only surprising part was the implied orgy on the island of the food cult. I bet Goro-san is glad he quit smoking now.

I am always delighted when stores opt to use the word "filbert". Like, "hazelnut" is a perfectly good, newer, hipper term, with wide recognition, but you opted to go with an older term that sounds like a cartoon turtle.

The Retroid Pocket 6 was just announced and wow - some of the best color options of the current generation of handhelds on one of the ugliest layouts of the current generation of handhelds.

It's nice to have a year off of being tempted by a new device.

"Ugly sweaters, healing crystal necklaces, cheap radios, and Jesus blankets, all in one catalog."
"Why?"

Trying to explain Harriett Carter catalogs to my millennial wife.

@deneb yeah, I kind of assumed that but they don't seem to see it that way. I trying to decide if I threaten them on Monday with a report to HHS or not.