Now, normally, Liz is all over this sucker like the feds on my wallet, but I couldn’t help but throw in my own on this one.

This year is special, you see–it’s the twenty-fifth anniversary of a fantastic Christmas movie release called A Christmas Story, and every year I watch it it just keeps getting better.

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It really hurts me to have to bear this particular lump of bad news, folks…especially after two solid years of mostly excellent films making it to the After Dark Horrorfest.

But this time just might be the low water mark, and horror movies will never be the same for it.

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So I was having Thanksgiving dinner with the folks and grandma and my aunt, and it’s a staple to watch the big dog show.  Naturally I was rooting for what I considered to be the underdog at the time, the bassett hound, who I believed deserved a little extra cheering by dint of the fact that he was an ugly little son of a bitch (literally!) but still roamed that floor like he couldn’t be happier to be there.

Every step that dog took was followed by a cavalcade of tail wagging.  And I mean EVERYWHERE.

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In case you haven’t noticed recently, the movie industry is in a bit of a slump.

The celebrities are off stuffing themselves with carbon-neutral soy turkey and suchlike, and the rest of us are still in a shallow coma from eating Grandma’s cooking for like three straight days since Thursday.  News is in a bit of a slump, so I’m gonna wax philosophical.  Because it may be a holiday, but the blogging got to go on, baby.

So I’m looking for some background noise whilst playing flash games and trying to figure out what the hell I’m going to write about since all my news haunts are deader than disco thanks to Thanksgiving.  It’s a great holiday–unlike a lot of people I don’t really have any problems with my family and a big free meal that lasts two days AND involves leftovers to which all I have to contribute is a seven-dollar pie from the local grocery is welcome any time of the year.  The pie, in case you wondered, was blueberry.  And it was AWESOME.  But anyway.

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Hey kids, gather round–post-Thanksgiving joke time.  What do you call a show that can’t even get the ratings of Knight Rider on a bad day, hosted by a militant lesbian who couldn’t keep an audience paying attention in the first place?

Give up?

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