Just about done Christmas shopping. Are my feet tired! I don't much like shopping under any circumstances, and the Friday before Christmas is a particularly bad time for it. At least I was able to get done in the afternoon. I bet it will be really crazy tonight.
Last night we went to A/V Geeks, then I did some work while Georg decorated. Just the little tinsel tree this year, no big pine garland like we usually do. The decorations still look nice, even scaled back. Then we watched the Nutcracker on tv. Does it get any more festive? Well I guess if I hadn't been working. At least it was low-key work that I could do while watching the Nutcracker. It was a version costarring Macauley Culken. Which I must say, was not good for the production. Every time they showed his face it took me right out of the moment. All I could think was, "Macauley Culkin! What a strange looking child he was. I wonder whatever happened to him? Is he less annoying as an adult? Maybe he's as cool as Wil Wheaton. It could happen!"
Tonight we're going out for meat on swords, then tomorrow Georg and I will do prep work for Sunday's show. Sunday is four days before Christmas, also the first day of Hanukkah, also the winter solstice. And we'll be spinning four hours of tunes that celebrate all of the above. A holly-jolly-yuletide-dreidel-riffic afternoon!
Culkin was, from what I recall of the reviews at the time, pretty good in Party Monster (2003). And he has done voices for Robot Chicken, which has to give him some cred.