“Do you have any idea how fast you were going?”

by chuckofish

Greetings from flyover country where three-year olds still draw people who look like this…

Clearly a portrait of her dad, of course, with a several day growth of beard

…and memes like this make us LOL…

(Note that Christmas is not capitalized but Communists is.)

Yes, we still watch Christmas movies and I, for one, am looking forward to starting my Christmas movie viewing this Thursday with the Thanksgiving lead-in to the holidays, Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987). Funnily enough, there seem to be people who are even more obsessed with this movie than my own family (who can recite the entire screenplay verbatim.) Check this out–a documentary that explores the history of a longer cut, drawing on deleted scenes, trailers, different versions of the screenplay and an interview with Michael McKean. In other words, everything you want to know about PT&A, but were afraid to imagine.

Next up (or maybe first) will be Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Since the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade will be “virtual” this year (yawn), maybe we’ll just cut out the middleman and watch the movie at 9:00 am with Mimosas and cinnamon rolls.

Whatever. This is going to be a very laid-back, wine-soaked Thanksgiving with only three of us at home. C’est la vie. We’ll make cheesy potatoes and have turkey and cranberry sauce and all the fixings. There will be pie.

We will continue to roll with the punches.

And here’s a little updated Steve Martin for Tuesday: