Pigeonrat

Oh my God, it's so foggy in DC this morning. I honestly had to ask myself more than once if I was on the right highway, the highway I've taken five days a week for most of the last three years, because it looked so strange and desolate. You could make out the buildings right next to the highway but anything beyond that was just a world of white. It was unsettling but pretty neat. I'm still not sure I didn't just pass through some kind of portal into a parallel universe.

I shouldn't worry so much about stuff.

On an unrelated topic, I nearly forgot I need to order some Vermont syrup in weird bottles for my parents for Christmas.

edit: And on another topic, almost all my Xmas decorations are up! Wreath, lights on window, tree, tree lights, ornaments. All that's left are the knick-knacks. The lights make it feel Christmasy and nice in here.

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• 12:03 @rifftrax Can I ask you guys: will you ever do another HP movie? Pretty PLEASE? POA was a YEAR ago! Can't wait to see the show on Thursday!! #

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BTW, I saw The Fantastic Mr. Fox today and it was awesome. It was SO Wes-Anderson-y, but all the visual design was amazing. How the heck do you create a foaming fire extinguisher using stop-motion? (Maybe that wasn't done in stop-motion but I think it was. I definitely look forward to the DVD commentary.)

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Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack?

Dave Barry?

Pimps Up Ho's Down?

I'm not the only one not getting comment e-mails, am I?

Pretty amusing eyewitness account of the live broadcast of Glenn Beck telling his Christmas story The Christmas Sweater.

I kind of loathe that Gap ad with the squadron of small girls chanting "HOW CUTE ARE THESE BOOTS".

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It is snowing very hard outside!

Do you ever imagine what could have happened if Bush really had died choking on that pretzel?

Oh, that Robert DeNiro movie Everybody's Fine came out today.

I found out several weeks ago that it's actually a remake of an Italian film (or maybe it was French), in which the point is that (spoiler alert!) everybody is NOT fine, nobody on Earth is fine, all of humanity is drowning in a cesspool of addiction and hatred and pain and fear and we're all completely doomed. The title is ironic, you see!

But I'd bet a lot of money that in the Robert DeNiro version, everybody actually is fine. (Unless this is a case of deceptive advertising exceeding Bridge to Terabithia-levels.)

I wish people wouldn't tease me at work about being quiet. It does not encourage me to be more ebullient.

Aww, Tai Shan's leaving :(

Oh, in other news, I'm reasonably sure that Parks & Recreation is my favorite show on TV right now. I'm so totally awesome for being optimistic last season that it would it improve, just like The Office did after its mediocre debut!

Apparently Blake Lively is hosting SNL this week?!? Weird. I like Blake Lively (and ever since the first SOTTP movie, I've thought she was stunningly gorgeous), but... I do not have high hopes for her sketch comedy talent.

And next week is TAYLOR FUCKING LAUTNER?!?!??!!!?! Again, I like him, cute kid (and KJ, I meant to tell you that you're right, he does have a certain Zac-ishness), but it's like NBC is enforcing an especially high ratio of hosts-who-are-attractive to hosts-who-might-be-expected-to-put-on-a-decent-show this season. And it's paying off big! If you bet your money on this season really sucking overall. At least they've got James Franco for the Christmas show.*

*But even that's sort of a missed opportunity: Taylor Lautner's musical guest will be Bon Jovi, while the following week James Franco's musical guest will be Muse. They should have put Muse on the same week as Taylor Lautner, because then it would be a Twilight theme week. But I guess this way they get the Twilight fans two weeks in a row.

Have you guys seen the trailer for that documentary "Babies"? (If you haven't, it's a documentary about babies. Nothing but babies.)

What I'm trying to figure out is, do all the normal rules and social conventions about not bringing your horrible screaming baby to a movie just go out the window when the movie is a documentary about babies? Is there anyone who would go see "Babies" who would be annoyed at the presence of an actual baby during the film? More annoyed than they would be at themselves for wishing that that baby would shut up so they could watch these babies?

Oh man, season 2 of Hoarders started last night and I missed it!!

Well, fuck. The dry cleaners totally fucked up my winter coat.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

I am thankful, but I would be even MORE thankful if this tiny tickle in my nose that's been pestering me for about 24 hours would just go away! But certainly there are worse things.