I have to track down a copy of A Child's Christmas in Wales for my very own.
My mom gave us all copies of the version illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. Love it.
Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.
'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
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smonster - Dec 06, 2010 12:31:31 pm PST #10321 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Beverly - Dec 06, 2010 12:34:43 pm PST #10322 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'd love to find the PBS film version, too. I've only seen a part of it once, but what I remember was lovely. I can be satisfied with the text version, though.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Dec 06, 2010 12:40:57 pm PST #10323 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Very glad to hear they know what's up with Mr Peabody, Ginger.
My Christmas movies are the ones I watched growing up - Santa Claus The Movie (which I'm going to make The Girl watch this year), Muppet Christmas Carol, Scrooged. I like Love Actually and When Harry Met Sally immensely, but there's not quite the same nostalgia.
I'm in the loveliest little B&B ever (got a training course tomorrow), in Essex, next door to a pub, with wifi and a telly. If you have to drive for four hours in freezing fog, there are much worse places to end up.
Kate P. - Dec 06, 2010 12:43:20 pm PST #10324 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
A Child's Christmas in Wales is totally my OTChristmasStory. We went to see the stage production several times when I was a kid, and those words and images have been indelibly stamped on my memory. I bought a slim copy of the book last year (for those who are thinking of tracking it down, I think I found it in the poetry section at my local bookstore) and read it aloud to Mark, and it brought childhood memories flooding back.
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.
All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find. In goes my hand into that wool-white bell-tongued ball of holidays resting at the rim of the carol-singing sea, and out come Mrs. Prothero and the firemen.
Daisy Jane - Dec 06, 2010 12:44:32 pm PST #10325 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Cajun Night Before Christmas
When I was little I would read this every year with accent and all.
I'll tell y'all about Jaipur in a minute.
Zenkitty - Dec 06, 2010 12:45:06 pm PST #10326 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
DJ, I don't think I said, but your tales of your India trip were fantastic. I'd love to have you ramble on more about it, if there's more to share.
I echo Beverly!
DavidS - Dec 06, 2010 12:45:49 pm PST #10327 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have to track down a copy of A Child's Christmas in Wales for my very own.
There is an audio version as read by Dylan Thomas himself.
Spidra Webster - Dec 06, 2010 1:51:35 pm PST #10328 of 30000
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
It's kinda too bad The Chronicles of Narnia had to leave stuff out (like all films of books). The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe always feels Xmas-y to me. Not just because of winter but because of how Santa finally arrives as the Witch's grip loosens. In fact the great gifts given to the Pevensies are gifts from Santa.
In other news, I got wet and dirty transplanting some of the snow peas I started out to the raised beds. I'm experimenting. Not sure if they'll really grow through winter but I'm going to find out. My lettuce, carrot and radish seed starts were failures because the seed starting tray (which has a cover) was full. So I started them in saucers and when the rains came, there was nowhere for the extra water to drain. The radishes actually germinated in the water and I dumped the mess onto the raised bed to see if they will be able to stand up and root.
quester - Dec 06, 2010 2:07:51 pm PST #10329 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I join amyth & Beverly with the Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol love!
And Jessica with The Nightmare Before Christmas!
Other faves:
The Grinch
Henry Winkler's An American Christmas Carol
The musical Scrooge
OT TV special: Amahl and the Night Visitors
OT movie: The Lion in Winter
Favorite TV Christmases: Bones-season 1, Relativity-the last season, whatever it was.
Atropa - Dec 06, 2010 2:11:53 pm PST #10330 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Christmas movies for me: Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, the Muppets Christmas Carol, and Arsenic & Old Lace.
(A&OL is a holiday movie in my family, because the first Christmas my Mom was in the hospital undergoing chemo, Dad and I stayed up really late decorating the tree. A&OL was the late-night movie that was on.)