I went to see a sneak preview of "Four Christmases" last night. This was at the Cinemark in the valley. I'd file this one under cute. It clocked in at a rather speedy 85 minutes or so, so don't order any Twizzlers, you'll have leftovers.

This was a movie about a couple, Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, who always ditch their respective families around the holidays. You know, "You can't spell families without 'lies'." But this year, getting ready for Fiji, weather forced them to stay around for Christmas and visit each of their divorced parents. Robert Duvall, Mary Steenburgen, Sissy Spacek and Jon Voight play the parents. Jon Favreau and Tim McGraw play Vince's UFC fighting brothers. We also get Dwight Yoakam who seems to be resembling Clint Howard these days in the role of Pastor Phil. Nothing put me on the floor and there are a few chuckles, mainly the ones you see in the hideous trailer for the movie.

So, if you have a spare 90 minutes or so during the holidays, it may be good for a laugh or two when you see this one. Nothing great, but fairly harmless entertainment.

Meal of Links

The Most Underrated Muppets. I always thought Rowlf was massively underappreciated, especially as Doctor Bob. Kinda like Goofy on the Disney side. Always reliable and funny, can't remember a bad outing by either one.

Elvis Costello's new show opens in a couple of weeks. I am there.

A visit to Prince's house. Not royalty, the symbol guy.

They found the remains of Copernicus. I didn't even know they were missing.

Monty Python now has a YouTube channel. Some good stuff to begin with.

Independent movie posters. Omigod, "The Machinist". If you catch that one late at night, I guarantee you'll stay up to see the end.

Now go out and conquer that clutter!

Exercise Yard

Why is Phil Savage e-mailing fans and dropping f-bombs? He was allegedly at a tailgate when the Browns were at Jacksonville, too. I am sure he was not drinking, but trying to drop in on the regular folk, I guess.

Someone should tell him, it isn't working.

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