Day One of Holiday Viewing and other Things
So it is the 1st day of December, which means that it is the beginning of THAT holiday season where we believe in magic, miracles and behaving in ways that we should behave throughout the whole year.
A couple of years ago, for no real reason, I decided that I would watch a holiday themed something everyday of the month that the holiday fell in. So this is mostly confined to October and December, both of which have so much material as to make this possible. For December, I’ve extended it to movies that feature Halloween as a part of the plot but is not the main part of the plot. The example here would be a film entitled “All This and Heaven Too,” which starred Charles Boyer and Bette Davis. In this midst of this based on a book, which is based on real life story about a governess and the French noble family she serves, the family sans the wife (who threw a fit and stayed at home) went on holiday to Melun, where they celebrated Halloween with roasted apples and a prayer to the spirits.
Today I split time between National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation-which AMC is positively ODing on; It’s A Wonderful Life, which he networks of NBC has been ODing on especially the E! network (an obvious bid to validate keeping this network which hasn’t been the same since the death of Joan Rivers and the departure of the Kardashians) and Holiday Baking Championship.
Today is also World AIDS Day, which doesn’t, at least in the United States, gets the same reverence it once did since many think the “AIDS problem” has been solved. It hasn’t. Not by a long shot.
Yesterday I did finish the NaNoWriMo for myself. I did admittedly sort of used the tools at the website but didn’t purchase any merch. I don’t know that I want to financially support an organization that allowed child molestation and molestation of others in general to flourish for so long and then took pretty lukewarm measures to address these matters. I liked the way that Tatyana’s Dreams turned out. Like the others, I’ll keep working on it post November.
Life it such that it’s hard to do the artistic things that you like to do. I suppose we must keep trying.