Almost Half A Baker’s Dozen Days of Christmas Movies AGAIN!:  Day 2  National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

Please wholeheartedly receive the compliments of the season until those compliments just seem like gratuitous sucking-up after a while!  Yes, another post!  Trust me, no one was more surprised as I was about it!  With this slew of postings, I started with A Charlie Brown Christmas and now National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation?  Could my holiday …

Through The Decades With Dear Boris: The Raven (1963)

As we come screaming into All Hallows Eve, allow me to wish you and yours the very best of the season!  May the weather favor your trick-or-treating or, if you have/are weak-in-the-knees parents, your trunk-or-treating.  (Insert my sad eyeroll here.)  Which reminds me: Parental Trick-Or-Treating ProTip #4: To allay any fears regarding wackos placing poisonous razor-bladed lightbulbs in the children’s …

The 25 Or However Many Days of 007 DAY 24: If We Have All The Time In The World, Then Why Do We Have All These Clocks?

First off, let me offer a wonderful Christmas message to all via the tinsel strewn landscape from the James Bond world!  Either through completely dumb luck or fortuitous planning or both or neither, I’ve managed to bring the only Christmas-themed James Bond film in at number two on today of all days!  Gosh, are we really at …

The 25 Or However Many Days of 007 DAY 3: Some Producers Engender Continuous Tired Reboot Ennui

Hello to all the gentle and dear readers out there in the vacuum of digital space!  I can see that you’ve exhausted every single other website on the webnets and that’s why you’re finally down to this one.  Well, I’m not bitter about that at all!  Sit a spell and take yer shoes off, pardner!  …

Almost Equal Sequels Part VI: Psycho II

Yet another week in October?  That means we need to take the time to focus on the reason for the season: horror sequels that aren’t that bad!  No, really!  They are a delight!  And thankfully, there are hundreds, if not billions of them to peruse. Again, thanks to those of you out there in the …

The Return of A Full Rich Blather!

Despite the overwhelming odds, vitriolic disparaging, crippling ennui, and mild rage, the Blather returns looking shinier and prettier than ever before…again! Yes, folks, here we are and here we go. Looks pretty snazzy, doesn’t it? I concur. Even this font bespeaks of the cream colored pages that you would find in a quirky, off beat …