The Most Wonderfullest Time Era
It's funny what an hour surfing the net looking for Christmas gifts can do to you. I had to stop myself when I felt a growing sense of panic and desperation threatening to overcome me. And that was just an hour.
Gift-getting is supposed to be simple in my family, since we decided a few years back that only the children should get presents. It was a little awkward for a while there, since for some reason I was classified as a child (with my nephews and nieces, all under 10 at the time). I was pretty glad when that all stopped.
Anyway, now my nieces and nephews are, with the exception of the two youngest, impossibly old: I have no idea what to get for them. What the hell does a 15-year-old want in 2007? That doesn't cost $300? So this year it'll be the same as the last. Target gift cards for everyone! That leaves me with the youngest, Lucy, and maybe I'll get some chocolate or candy items for the kids to go with their gift cards. There's also my parents, but that's taken care of. Oh, and I should get something for my grandparents, which might make for some difficulty. Mike is 3/4 taken care of. I just need to figure out where I can buy a catapult....
And there's "Secret Christmas." Here's where I hope that my outside-of-Dutchess-County family doesn't happen to find this blog. Because they're not supposed to know about Secret Christmas. On Christmas Eve, my local siblings give small gifts to each other -- mostly because it's too weird NOT giving gifts when my parents are showering us and Olivia and Lucy with presents. A few days later, when the long-distance sibs come for Christmas, we pretend Secret Christmas didn't happen... because we're not supposed to cheat on the no presents for sibs rule. Well, Secret Christmas is driving me a teensy bit crazy right now, because I want to get non-crap for everyone. And I don't think a Jon Bon Jovi action figure for my sister counts as non-crap.
I'll figure it out.
In other news, we were watching Star Trek VI last night, and I noticed something oddly familiar about a certain character.
Kurtwood Smith, President of the Federation
Kurtwood Smith, father in That 70s Show
Now that I look at his IMDB page, I see the guy's been in everything, so this isn't exactly a great or rare find. He's a character actor. But damn, that moustache.
Kurtwood Smith, President of the Federation
Kurtwood Smith, father in That 70s Show
Now that I look at his IMDB page, I see the guy's been in everything, so this isn't exactly a great or rare find. He's a character actor. But damn, that moustache.
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DATE: 12/11/2007 4:04 PM
Re: Kurtwood Smith. Pat pointed it out to Dave and me when we watched Star Trek VI in Maine a few months ago...I had never had an inkling of suspicion - weird, isn't it? Such a strangely dignified character, and yet also the violent mobster in Robocop...Secret Christmas sounds awesome. Holidays need more secret traditions like that.
DATE: 12/11/2007 4:14 PM
Also, isn't Star Trek VI awesome? How about all those literary references, and the literary thematic content?Apparently ('Mad Dog' Harris explained this) writer/director Nicholas Meyer is a literary enthusiast and a writer - wrote The Seven Percent Solution, and thought the material was best when treated that way.Anyway...just thought that was interesting, you english graduate/librarian, you.
DATE: 12/11/2007 5:20 PM
What?!?! Secret Christmas?? ... leave it to a bunch of paranoid crackers to ruin my big holiday. I think you should come clean and keep it real, baby. Sharing is what I'm all about. Also: nog.
DATE: 12/13/07 8:40 AM
Star Trek VI is indeed awesome. I like the whole Klingon prison planet thing - kind of wish more of the movie were spent there, but I guess there isn't all that much material to draw from Kirk-and-Bones-in-a-mine-getting-threatened-by-aliens. Oh, and how about that Christian Slater cameo with Sulu? For some reason I forget about that every time I see it.
DATE: 12/13/2007 2:56 PM
I think there's actually an extra scene on the mining asteroid that they removed - though I've never seen it - it includes the shape-changer looking like Odo.Yeah, the asteroid is a lot of fun. It was good to see Kirk and Bones hanging out in a gulag in space.I like to pretend that the slater cameo is really Will Scarlet, having broken onto the set and stolen a uniform to fit in, but not really understanding what's going on in with the space-ship and aliens and all.
DATE: 12/14/2007 9:05 AM
BODY: He does seem rather confused...