25. “The Honeymooners” Twas the Night Before Christmas –  S1E13 – aired December 24, 1955

25. “The Honeymooners” Twas the Night Before Christmas –  S1E13 – aired December 24, 1955

Celebrating its 70th anniversary this year is this classic episode from “The Honeymooners” featuring an orange juice squeezer in the shape of Napoleon’s head and a lot of Christmas gift hijinks between Alice and Ralph. Because Alice can’t trust Ralph with not trying to find his present.

While Alice is gone from the apartment, Ed drops in and Ralph can’t help but brag about the present his has gotten Alice: a box to keep hairpins in. Ralph blabs on to Ed that he was told the box is all handmade, 2000 matches glued together and made in Japan. On top of that, the guy told Ralph that it’s the only one in the whole world and that at one time it was in the house of the Emperor of Japan. Ralph is convinced he’s sitting on a really special gift for Alice.

Ed convinces Ralph to give the gift to Alice that night, although the Kramdens usually wait until Christmas morning to exchange gifts. Just as Ralph is about to give Alice her gift, a neighbor, Mrs. Stevens, arrives with a gift for Alice. Wouldn’t you know it’s the same one-of-a-kind hairpin box that Ralph is holding behind his back. The look on Ralph’s face as he watches Alice open it is priceless. Now Ralph has a real dilemma on his hands.

Ralph needs to figure out how to get cash fast to buy another present. Ralph keeps knocking himself for spending his last $22.00 on a bowling ball. Because if he hadn’t, he’d have the money to buy Alice another gift.

Ralph believes his problem is solved when Uncle Leo stops by with a gift and it just happens to be a twenty-five dollar gift certificate to a store. But before he can spend it on another gift for Alice, a misunderstanding causes it to wind up in Alice’s hands.

In a twist straight out of “The Gift of the Magi”, Ralph decides to hock his bowling ball and takes the proceeds to purchase a new gift for Alice.

In the final scene when Alice and Ralph exchange gifts, Ralph discovers that Alice has gifted him a bowling ball bag and he has to come clean about his bowling ball whereabouts when she wants to see how well the ball fits in the bag. And what did Ralph buy Alice with his bowling ball proceeds? An orange juice squeezer in the shape of Napoleon’s head. Which Alice just loves. Probably as much as Trixie loves hers.

The episode ends with Ralph’s monologue about Christmas: “Christmas, well it’s about the best time of the whole year. You walk down the streets even for weeks before Christmas comes and there’s lights hanging up, green ones and red ones, sometimes there’s snow and everybody’s hustling someplace. But they don’t hustle around Christmastime like they usually do. You know, there’re a little more friendly. They bump into you, they laugh and they say pardon me, Merry Christmas. Especially when it gets really close to Christmas night. Everybody’s walking home, you can hardly hear a sound. Bells are ringing, kids are singing. Snow is coming down. And boy what a pleasure it is to think that you got someplace to go to and the place that you’re going to there’s somebody in it that you really love. Someone you’re nuts about. Merry Christmas”.

No Food For You!

No Food For You!

Because the assholes in the government can’t agree on anything (because most Republicans don’t want anything good for the American public, such as affordable healthcare), the government shut down on October 1.

Among many things the shutdown has affected is SNAP or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program which provides food benefits to 42 million Americans. Of course the decision to halt SNAP benefits was decided before the shutdown even happened.

So November 1 came and people learned they weren’t going to have SNAP benefits for November. Some lawsuits were filed against the SHITHOLE “administration”, legal demands of the release of SNAP benefits were issued, SHITHOLE filed an appeal, the appeal was denied, SHITHOLE ran to the Not So Supreme Court and a temporary 48-hour “pause” was put in place.

Meanwhile many states said “fuck you SHITHOLE and the Not So Supreme Court” and went ahead and released SNAP benefits to their constituents anyway because, SHOCKER! People need to eat to survive!

There’s also a question as to whether the USDA and/or SHITHOLE has the money to provide SNAP benefits. Because it’s believed SHITHOLE has appropriated the money for himself. Because it costs money to destroy the Shit House and put in a new tacky bathroom. And that 40 billion to Argentina didn’t come out of SHITHOLE’S pockets.

As of this writing it appears we may be on the verge of the government opening back up, albeit for a short while. Because once it’s realized that compromises can’t be made, it will shut back down again. And soon it will be December. Meanwhile food banks are becoming overwhelmed.

If leaving a legacy of starving Americans is what SHITHOLE wants to be known for, he’s on the right path.

Review – Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

Review – Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

As a Springsteen fan, I really didn’t know what to expect with “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere”. I was mainly hoping that Jeremy Allen White would do Bruce justice on the big screen. I was pleasantly surprised.

The film revolves around Bruce and his making of his album “Nebraska”. But it also delves deep into Springsteen’s life, through flashbacks of him growing up in a domestically chaotic household in Freehold, New Jersey and the pressure of his record company wanting a new album the way they want it. Thank goodness for Jon Landau (Jeremy Strong) who advocates for Bruce when he presents a simple and raw demo for “Nebraska”. Just the way he wants it.

It’s clear from the movie this was a pivotal time in Bruce’s life: he had just ended a tour, had his first top ten single with “Hungry Heart” and was slowly becoming a household name. His character is left wondering what is next and it’s my feeling with his research for “Nebraska”, it drummed up hardened feelings of life with his father. I found it interesting to learn that many songs that would eventually appear on “Born in the U.S.A.” were initially considered to be on “Nebraska”, even has a potential double album. I’m glad that never happened.

In the end we learn that like anyone else, Bruce is a person first and foremost, before being a musician. He needs to learn to deal with his emotions before he can move forward to become the Bruce Springsteen the world eventually becomes enamored with.

White portrays Springsteen well, right down to the vocals. Strong comes off as very likeable as Landau. In my opinion the casting was right on. It was a very enjoyable film, if only one that Springsteen fans would truly appreciate.

None of the Above

None of the Above

The other day Cunt KKKaroline Leavitt declared from her vile pulpit that “The Democrat Party’s main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals”.

Well, millions of Americans beg to differ.

  1. If we were Hamas terrorists we’d be living in the Middle East and fighting against Israel, especially since the “ceasefire” that SHITHOLE and Nuttynunu “created” is pretty much null and void.
  2. To be an “illegal alien” you have to be illegal and an alien. Many may be, what Cunt Leavitt and the SHITHOLE “administration” consider “illegal”, but nobody is an “alien” unless they are from another planet. We are all human beings here on Earth. Although the jury is out on SHITHOLE. And probably the entire “administration’. They are anything BUT human. More like INHUMANE.
  3. To be a “violent criminal” one must commit a violent crime. Such as raiding the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, smearing shit all over the place, stealing items and hurting and killing law enforcement. Gee, that would be the MAGAASSES, wouldn’t it? Guess THEY are the violent criminals Cunt Leavitt is referring to.

And if the Democrat Party’s main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals, I guess that means the Republican Party is made up of fascists, assholes, shitholes, pedophiles, sexists, homophobes, racists, cons, 34-count charged criminals, narcissists, couch fuckers, idiots, dumbasses, retards and just plain old dangerous MAGAASSES who are so stuck in a cult they can’t see straight.

Hate to be them.