Four Christmases

broderic on December 27, 2008

The poster for Four Christmases features the stars, Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, bound up in ribbon. You wish that you were bound up yourself to help avoid seeing this movie.

It’s about a couple, living in sin, not married, because they can do what Sally said, “Make love on the kitchen floor,” whenever they want. What they want is to avoid their relatives for Christmas by jetting out to Fiji. Unfortunately, not all goes according to plan. They end up having to go to all their parents’ house to visit for the day.

The parents are each divorced, which means that the couple doesn’t want to get married because they’ll just end up as their parents. Of course, with Christmas they get a warm welcome and realize perhaps being just a couple isn’t so worth it. The movie re-establishes traditional family values of marriage and kids as the end all be all of a loving relationship. Who cares? You knew that was coming. The stories were never funny enough. There was plenty of star power. In fact I was pleasantly surprised to see the boy named Sue show up as a reunion for the Swingers dudes.

Eh! I just didn’t find this funny or worth it at all.

2 of 5 stars.

Quote of the Day [12.24.08]

broderic on December 24, 2008

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;

Night Before Christmas, Clement Clarke Moore

Nozomi wishes you a Merry Christmas

broderic on December 20, 2008


Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays. She’ll bring you cheer. Or darn, why can’t Santa bring me something like this for Christmas? I guess I have to do these things on my own.

Where’s the elves?

Link of the Day [12.20.08]

broderic on December 20, 2008

I like winter more than I like spring. I love autumn most, but that’s for another post. Check the archives.

When the days get shorter and the nights get longer, it feels natural. The quality of the light also is comforting. When the days get longer and the nights shorter, it is discomforting, and the quality of light is artificial.

From here on out, it will be an unnerving day to day existence until the awesomeness of summer.

http://www.knowth.com/newgrange.htm

Link of the Day [12.16.08]

broderic on December 16, 2008

I’m sitting at home waiting for the right time to head on over to the post office to pick up a package. I wish they would open at 8 am rather than a half hour later. I have to stay at work later than I would want to just because of the opening time.

In this day and age, the US postal service is a throwback to earlier times when letters were all important. Now, it’s just email, text, or IM. When will it be e-packages, text-packages, or IM-packages? Send my figures to my 3D printer so that I don’t have to wait so long.

Anywhoo, with the holiday coming up (9 days of shopping left), you better mail out those packages if you need them to get to their destination before Christmas morn.

http://www.usps.com/