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SCREEN SCROOGES: To Cheat Or Not To Cheat

Interlude Even the movies which do not cheat the ending like to toss in a scene showing the arrival of a prize turkey at the home of the Cratchits. They NEED to see that turkey done all the way through. None I have seen quite discuss the effect of the arrival of aContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: To Cheat Or Not To Cheat”

Polarizing Plate

I don’t go LOOKING for trouble, Heaven knows. I was just curious about a food item—though I certainly do not write a food blog—and went into the Interwebs to answer my question. Someday I shall sum up my research into the history of the BLT, but I was sidetracked into a completely unrelated issueContinue reading “Polarizing Plate”

Informational Mailings

Last week in this space we discussed those informational postcards which informed you about candidates who knew you were the right kind of citizen and would vote for them. These are considered by most of America to be part of a larger subclass of educational material known as “junk mail”. The custom ofContinue reading “Informational Mailings”

SCREEN SCROOGES: Scrooge’s Christmas

The hand in which he wrote the address was not a steady one, but write it he did, somehow, and went down stairs to open the street door, ready for the coming of the poulterer’s man. As he stood there, waiting his arrival, the knocker caught his eye. “I shall love it asContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Scrooge’s Christmas”

Election Year!

Let’s continue to celebrate the New Year while we can. It is 2024, after all, a (FM) as the Farmer’s Almanac likes to remind us, a year that’s one day longer than the rest: a Leap year, an Olympic Year, a…well, yes, in these United States, a big Election Year! We are notContinue reading “Election Year!”

Centennial Volumes

Well, I just don’t know. It’s about time for me to do my annual summary of book stuff celebrating a centennial in 2024. But besides the fact that 1928 has been grabbing all the media attention (since works published in that year are not officially in the public domain) I am struck byContinue reading “Centennial Volumes”

Screen Scrooges: The Boy

Rushing to the window, he opened it, and put out his head. No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial. Stirring, cold; cold piping for the blood to dance to; Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air, merry bells. Oh, glorious. Glorious! “What’s to-day?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes,Continue reading “Screen Scrooges: The Boy”

Dutch Courage

We are ALMOST a week into the New Year, and like the rest of us who swore off procrastination last year, some of you have not gotten around to making your resolutions yet. I know I offered you a great deal of selfless and unselfish advice (it’s easy to be unselfish if you’re givingContinue reading “Dutch Courage”

2024 Self-Improvement (Yours)

One of the services any good blogger should be ready to perform for readers is help out with New Year’s Resolutions. This might seem a little late to some of you, but the people who get their Christmas shopping done by Halloween are not exactly my core audience. And, anyway, by this timeContinue reading “2024 Self-Improvement (Yours)”

Screen Scrooges: Oh, Glorious! Glorious!

STAVE FIVE: The End Of It Yes! And the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the time before him was his own, to make amends in! “I shall live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!” Scrooge repeated, asContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Oh, Glorious! Glorious!”