It ain’t Christmas time until you watch a good Christmas movie like Die Hard to help get in the spirit. I just watched it for the 35th time, more times than I ever watched the Wizard of Oz and when Hans Gruber starts falling from the Nakitomi Plaza Building is when I really start getting the holiday spirit and feeling all fuzzy inside.
On Thursday night i was slicing up a beef roast for jerky (under $4/lb! Couldn’t pass it up) and my lovely wife was watching another Hallmark or Hallmark Adjacent Christmas movie.
It hit all the notes: upwardly mobile lawyer lady about to pass the Bar Exam saves a small town ice carving contest. Enter lovelorn small town businessman.
What’s different? Well, I’ll tell ya.
Bad thing almost happens, but doesn’t.
Story continues, 2nd bad thing almost happens… but doesn’t.
Ice carving contest saved, love blooms, lawyer lady becomes small town whatever. I didn’t catch what he does for a living. But his name was “Nick” so there was your wink to the audience.
Man vs man? No
Man vs nature? Nope
Man vs society? No
Man vs himself? Comes closest but again, no.
No antagonist, no plot complications, happy ending.
The jerky is coming off the dehydrator now and I find that I don’t mind listening to a goofy Hallmark movie from the kitchen that just ambled on from start to finish without any drama.
As a youngster, we made jerky in the kitchen. The dehydrator melted it’s power cord and caught fire in the middle of the night, along with some of the kitchen. Had to live in a hotel for a couple weeks while all the smoke damage in the house was cleared up. A few years later, I had convinced my mother to get another dehydrator and we made several more batches of delicious jerky, but always outside on the porch. That dehydrator also caught fire, but luckily the damage was limited to some ruined paint on the aluminum siding and some charring of the roof over the porch.
Holy socks that’s terrible! Happily I’ve never had an issue. I’ve only owned two dehydrators in my life. The first one was a circular clear model that had a poor motor and was difficult to rearrange when i needed to rotate the jerky.
The second is an Excalibur 4 tray model. Probably their most basic model. It’s still going strong after 16 years.
Accidentally caught a minute of a Hallmark movie while shifting channels to watch a video.
Easily, as bad as you could imagine.
Something like:
“Oh, Jake, when you left here, years ago. . . .”
“. . . . I never thought I’d be back.”
[Blinking] “What did bring you back?”
“Don’t you know?” [Looks at camera] “I guess I never really did leave. Not really.”
And I suppose he went on to walk his one-legged dog, Spunky.
Personally I would like to see Dr. Pimple Popper all dressed up festive like, popping huge zits to Jingle Bells and other classics.
Follow it up with pops that go wrong and show infections..call it ” The Pinch That Stole Christmas”..
It ain’t Christmas time until you watch a good Christmas movie like Die Hard to help get in the spirit. I just watched it for the 35th time, more times than I ever watched the Wizard of Oz and when Hans Gruber starts falling from the Nakitomi Plaza Building is when I really start getting the holiday spirit and feeling all fuzzy inside.
🎶it ain’t Christmas and there’s no Alan🎶
Oppo and Walrus is a Die Hard song imbed possible any time this season? Maybe with a language warning?
Sounds like work. I’ll let Walrus handle it.
I’m retired.
Wife’s Hallmark movie update (WHMU):
On Thursday night i was slicing up a beef roast for jerky (under $4/lb! Couldn’t pass it up) and my lovely wife was watching another Hallmark or Hallmark Adjacent Christmas movie.
It hit all the notes: upwardly mobile lawyer lady about to pass the Bar Exam saves a small town ice carving contest. Enter lovelorn small town businessman.
What’s different? Well, I’ll tell ya.
Bad thing almost happens, but doesn’t.
Story continues, 2nd bad thing almost happens… but doesn’t.
Ice carving contest saved, love blooms, lawyer lady becomes small town whatever. I didn’t catch what he does for a living. But his name was “Nick” so there was your wink to the audience.
Man vs man? No
Man vs nature? Nope
Man vs society? No
Man vs himself? Comes closest but again, no.
No antagonist, no plot complications, happy ending.
The jerky is coming off the dehydrator now and I find that I don’t mind listening to a goofy Hallmark movie from the kitchen that just ambled on from start to finish without any drama.
Now you know.
Recipe upon request.
mmmm. .. . . . . beef jerky . . . .
Shouldn’t it be reindeer jerky, given the season?
As a youngster, we made jerky in the kitchen. The dehydrator melted it’s power cord and caught fire in the middle of the night, along with some of the kitchen. Had to live in a hotel for a couple weeks while all the smoke damage in the house was cleared up. A few years later, I had convinced my mother to get another dehydrator and we made several more batches of delicious jerky, but always outside on the porch. That dehydrator also caught fire, but luckily the damage was limited to some ruined paint on the aluminum siding and some charring of the roof over the porch.
Holy socks that’s terrible! Happily I’ve never had an issue. I’ve only owned two dehydrators in my life. The first one was a circular clear model that had a poor motor and was difficult to rearrange when i needed to rotate the jerky.
The second is an Excalibur 4 tray model. Probably their most basic model. It’s still going strong after 16 years.
Accidentally caught a minute of a Hallmark movie while shifting channels to watch a video.
Easily, as bad as you could imagine.
Something like:
“Oh, Jake, when you left here, years ago. . . .”
“. . . . I never thought I’d be back.”
[Blinking] “What did bring you back?”
“Don’t you know?” [Looks at camera] “I guess I never really did leave. Not really.”
And I suppose he went on to walk his one-legged dog, Spunky.
Personally I would like to see Dr. Pimple Popper all dressed up festive like, popping huge zits to Jingle Bells and other classics.
Follow it up with pops that go wrong and show infections..call it ” The Pinch That Stole Christmas”..
Dr. Zit. Get it?
Yup.
Final-month-of-the-year and I am still deliriously happy.
Maybe next year.
Well you live in Texas, so it’s no wonder.
There is that.
Is cannabis legal there? Perhaps thats whats going on..
Just watched “Lady Ballers”. I recommend it
Beats watching hockey 🏒
Between the kids shows I’ve heard about and seeing the trailer for “Lady Ballers”, I think I might need a subscription (groan) to another service.