Merry Christmas, dammit! As the first hint of winter hit North Texas today, I watched Elf with my sister who was home early from school. I've mentioned previously some of my other adventures with Christmas movies--yes I got Christmas Vacation in Saturday night. And of course last night was A Charlie Brown Christmas on TV...the 40th year it's been shown so it's been getting a lot ot press this week. Tonight my Mom wanted to watch Santa Claus is Coming to Town but 15 minutes into it we were going out of our minds. That's the thing with Christmas themed entertainment...when it works, it kills, but when it's bad...not so much. Speaking of bad, while sitting around tonight (bathroom) and flipping through an old 'Letterman Top Ten List' book I stumbled upon a random late 80's Late Night holliday themed Top Ten List. Let's see how it holds up...

TOP TEN LEAST POPULAR CHRISTMAS GIFTS:
10) Andre the Giant champagne
9) Hickory Farms Smoked Gristle assortment
8)Phil Donahue's A Boy's First Dress
7)A Free Hour of Advertising on (another network)
6)The Jimmy Swaggert Pop-up book
5)Angry-Live-Bird-in-a-bag from Hartz (what the hell?)
4)Dan Rather lather skin bracer for men
3)A living weasal wallet
2)Al Sharpton hair-styling spackle
1)Isotoner diapers

Wow. See what I mean. Sometimes Christmas-themed entartainment just misses completely. (I changed a little of the words just in case NBC wanted to try and sue me...hopefully that will suffice). Now if you don't mind, I'm going to go get drunk off some Andre the Giant Champagne, 87 vintage, and watch It's A Wonderful Life.  ¶ 12/07/2005 09:38:00 PM