Assortment of Chocolates

Oh, look, random links and comments!

– I am sitting enjoying my very favorite of Christmas movies, which is, of course, Die Hard. I found myself getting entirely too thinky about how Holly and John split and why and how all you want when you watch movies like this when you’re younger is YAY THEY’RE TOGETHER! but when you watch as an adult, you notice how tense Holly is when John first arrives and how they don’t even hug and then you realize you’re reading too much into this because you’re getting divorced and don’t you want some hot chocolate and maybe something sweet? Just enjoy the violence.

– I have my second favorite Christmas movie queued up to watch with the Dark Lordling later. I was in the play twice – my first year as Gladys, the last as Imogene – from the youngest Herdman to the oldest!

– one hardcore reason why I love The Toast: A short post about the Ninja Turtles as other foursomes evolves into a thoughtful processing in the comments of why Mr. Big is actually Shredder as well as which famous political leader is Raphael. And then someone suggested that Han Solo and Raphael are pretty much the same person, and wow, I now understand why I was in love with both of them as a child.

– I’m still in love with Han Solo.

– I grabbed this link from..somewhere (Geek and Sundry, I think). Filmumentaries (which looks wrong no matter how many times I type it), which are documentaries about behind the scenes stuff from films, and includes some cool looks at Star Wars – like the Jabba puppeteer. I’m making this sound boring, but I swear it isn’t.

– Evidently, “neighbor gifts” are a thing for the holidays. From what I can tell, someone finally gave a name to the way you dump random things off with your neighbors to make them think you like them. The lists of these tend to either be hilarious or cringe-worthy.

Hilarious: Stovetop Potporri – ITS A BAG. WITH AN ORANGE AND A CINNAMON STICK IN IT.

Cringe-worthy: Cutesy sayings to attach to various ridiculous things that no one needs. “We WHISK you a Merry Christmas!” Ugh.

…No offense made to the site I linked there, as they have some tasty ideas, but..the SAYINGS.

– This is so so so very NSFW, but I got linked to this site on tumblr, and I spent a good fifteen minutes in absolutely hysterical laughter. I can’t decide if it’s disturbing, brilliant, or if the person running the tumblr needs a whole lot of therapy. Maybe all of the above.

– Voldemort and I spent a fascinated ten minutes watching videos like this. We’ve both decided we need to try one, as it looks like fun, and we both REALLY want to know what they taste like:

-MySpace has emailed me TWICE in the past two days, trying to lure me back to the 90s, I think. Or maybe trying to steal my soul. I didn’t even know MySpace still EXISTED.