That time of year
It's the Christmas season around here all right! We've had office-decorating competitions, raffles, and drives for Toys for tots, food, coats, old cell phones and our party is on Friday. The neighborhoods are decked out in glowing snowflakes on lampposts, the local restaurants filled with colorful lights and the old brownstones with front rooms glowing with candles and sparkling Christmas trees.
The corner stores are selling small trees; the big trees are around the corner all along one block stocked with pine and cute boys from Montreal. Rotten TV has turned into cheesy Christmas movies and stories. I watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" last night; you've got to admire a man who can rocket to fame on a purely inventive vocabulary.
Only one thing remains before I fly out home, and that is to expose my roommate to "The Christmas Story." She's never seen it. How? One might ask. How is it possible to live your entire life in the U.S. and never see that movie? Well, I'll tell you, one might reply, with a pause and a thoughtful look. I have no idea.
So I will search and I will scramble.
I will not lurch, I will not amble.
I will find that story,
in one little flurry.
Then we will watch, and we will chuckle at the furnace,
the tire, the boy and his Red Red Rider!
The corner stores are selling small trees; the big trees are around the corner all along one block stocked with pine and cute boys from Montreal. Rotten TV has turned into cheesy Christmas movies and stories. I watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" last night; you've got to admire a man who can rocket to fame on a purely inventive vocabulary.
Only one thing remains before I fly out home, and that is to expose my roommate to "The Christmas Story." She's never seen it. How? One might ask. How is it possible to live your entire life in the U.S. and never see that movie? Well, I'll tell you, one might reply, with a pause and a thoughtful look. I have no idea.
So I will search and I will scramble.
I will not lurch, I will not amble.
I will find that story,
in one little flurry.
Then we will watch, and we will chuckle at the furnace,
the tire, the boy and his Red Red Rider!
posted by ldbug at Wednesday, December 13, 2006
19 Comments:
I watched about five minutes of the Grinch last night then realized that it was much better when I was a kid. ;)
Steve~
I'm not sure if my damn comment went though...
Steve - Yeah, it was better as a kid, but I had a computer on my lap and a book in hand, so when it was boring I had distractions!
And sorry, I've put up comment moderation b/c of some unpleasantness. You're comments are comming through though! Never fear!! And maybe I'll be able to take off the moderation in the future, so keep stopping by:-)
The Grinch was always a holiday favorite of my brother and I. We always made plans to watch it together for its first television airing so watching it always reminds me of him. It was better as a kid but it still makes me smile.
I can NOT believe that your roommate has never seen "A Christmas Story" glad to hear you are going to remedy that before leaving for the holidays. That movie never stops being funny!
molly - it was a shock to find out that she'd never seen it, to say the least;-P I'm making her watch it, if I can find it!!
I love The Grinch cartoon...and loved that little poem at the end of the post!...and I love The Christmas Story!...I can't wait for Christmas to be over so I can stop loving things again...! LOL!
I would LOVE to spend Christmas in New York it sounds charming.
rock - Yeah, aren't you supposed to be a tough guy? ;-) I love Christmas too.
tod - I'm actually taking off for Montana, but not till the 23rd so I get to do all the NY stuff! We're planning skating at Rokefeller center on Friday after the Christmas party! I'm bringing my camera for sure!!
I can finally comment again because I switched over to beta.
I HATED 'A Christmas Story.' I think that I am the only one on the entire planet that did. Maybe I hate it because my brother forced me to watch it again and again, and again.
Nice poem, tho! Happy Holidays!
Oh no!! I wonder if roommate will hate it too? I promise not to make her watch it more than once:-)
Me, a tough guy? I'm hard and crunchy on the outside, warm and soft on the inside...kind of like a burnt apple pie...
Yum apple pie --- wait burnt?
Weee have plans for the weekend, I guess.
i love all the chuck jones cartoons...grinchies, horton hears a who, the jungle book, rikki tikki tavi...i like his art more than disney...i watched the grinch the other night, too. it's the only christmassy thing I have done all season.
ergo - yeah!! skating and window shopping and macies and f a shwartz...(think I spelt those places wrong, but who cares!! it's going to be fun!!!)
dilling - do you like A Christmas Story?
Ahhh here you are. A bit out of date babe. Soz I ain't been around. Jax lookin' good now. I'll update me link.
Caz could do with a new sis in law - current one is a nutter. Not my sis I hasten to add, married to Caz's bro. Read back. His loss. I'll be yer bro babe x
Hey 4D!!! I hope everyone is doing well, it's good to hear from you, I'll take you up on that offer - you're the best brother ever:-)
I tried commenting on this the other day, but stupid Blogger Beta wasn't letting me.
Anyway...
A Christmas Story is THE best movie for the festive season, and it must be watched! As must It's A Wonderful Life. Those two are the best two Chrizzie movies ever. And anyone who doesn't like them... well, I won't say it in polite company.
* stupid blogger! you know, another good one is Meet me in St. Louis. I know, I know, it does all the holidays, but the Christmas part is so perfect.
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