Halftime: Christmas Movies

We're now halfway through our Christmas movie quadfecta.

First off was "It's a Wonderful Life". How many of us technies would opt to "serve" our community by skipping school and loaning money to the Martini's so they could buy a house? How much do we really understand of the people ( do we know any?) that serve community instead of self? Or has the notion of community changed for us, what with open-source? And how many knew that the Sesame street characters of Bert and Ernie are named after the cop and taxi driver?

Next up was "A Christmas Story". Not that well know, but a wonderful tale of a boy's Christmas. The imagination of the reception his essay would get, saving his family from black bart with his new bb gun, and of course his father's cursing and rapture with the leg lamp are just so much fun.

We watched a bit of the Bill Murray "Scrooged", but it was simply a shallow nothingness of a movie compared to the real thing. While some parts were funny - slamming the toaster into Bill Murray's face - Scrooge isn't really about comedy, now is it?

Where are all the Christmas movies on TV? We've seen no Peanuts, Muppets, Sesame Street, Grinch, Christmas Carole, White Christmas, etc. Very disappointing.

Next up: A Christmas Carole - in black and white of course with Alastair Sim - and how the Grinch Stole Christmas.