¡Adios, 2019!

I hope that you and Ms. Kinski have a pleasant departure and that your replacement will be an improvement.

In any event, here's wishing the best to all of my loyal readers in 2019. I know I have not been posting as regularly this past year as much as you all might like but I really am trying to improve on that. May you all have a safe celebration tonight.

¡Feliz Navidad!

Charisma Carpenter and I want to wish all my loyal readers a merry Christmas.

We hope you all are enjoying the winter holidays and are having a particularly blessed season.

Christmas Song of the Week: "Father Christmas"

It took me a long time to appreciate this song. On one hand, it's one of the most cynical Christmas song ever recorded; on the other, it has a genuinely idealistic message that lacks the self-congratulation that mars similar efforts like "We Are the World" and "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Of course, YMMV but I would like to think the song is still worth listening to if only for the last few lines.

Pensamientos Acerca de Televisión

Evil: “Pilot”

Stop me if you heard this one but apparently there was this guy who liked to investigate cases of a supernatural nature and his partner just happened to be a woman who was very skeptical about the supernatural...

Okay, there's obviously more to the new Evil show than that but unfortunately, I doubt I'm ever going to find out. After all, the last time I tried to watch the first episode by myself, my eyes started blurring and several hours later my blood sugar and my blood pressure crashed. I doubt the two incidents were related but then again, I'm not really eager to test that theory when it concerns a TV show that at best seemed to be so-so.

On the plus side, it was good to see actor Michael Emerson of Person of Interest back on prime-time TV again even if his role as a demon enabling so-and-so was far from sympathetic.

On the minus side, I'm not sure how eager I am to watch yet another TV show about demons. Especially since two of those demons had the same names as two of my relatives.

Pop Song of the Week: "Kiss Off"

Who doesn't have their little moments when they forget what eight was for -- especially around this time of year?

Movie Song of the Week: "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"

Apparently Alexa wants us to hear this song.

Movie Quote of the Week

Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
--Christopher Lloyd, Back to the Future (1985)

TV Quote of the Week

And sometimes you just got to kick back, relax, and enjoy a movie with too many white people in it.
--Patricia Heaton, The Middle, “Survey Says...”

Christmas Song of the Week: "I Want a Hippotamus for Christmas"

An updated version of a classic Christmas novelty song.

Quote of the Week

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
--Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"

Trailer of the Week: Confessions of a Shopaholic

It's the one romcom that even romcom fans prefer not to remember. Starring everyone's favorite Amy Adams wannabe Isla Fisher, it's a shameless tribute to retail therapy that should have been rendered obsolete by Great Depression II but wasn't.

Pensamientos Acerca de Televisión

The Twilight Zone (1985): “The Card”

A busy housewife and mother of three gets issued a credit card from a mysterious company called the Card and discovers the hard way what happens when she forgets to make a payment. The sad part about this episode is that it's still so timely -- and even more so every Christmas season.

¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Mi Hermano y Mi Mamá!

It's my mother's birthday and my youngest brother's birthday.

It is also the Catholic religious holiday known as Feast of the Immaculate Conception but you all probably knew that already.

Trailer of the Week: Tora! Tora! Tora!

It's that day again.

Movie Quote of the Week

If you give a hungry man a loaf of bread, that's democracy, if you leave the wrapper on, that's imperialism.
--Raymond Bond, A Foreign Affair (1948)

TV Quote of the Week

When I said my only concern was homeworld security, I meant my world, not yours!
--Simon Chadwick, The Sarah Jane Adventures, "Enemy of the Bane: Part 2"