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I went halfsies with my daughter's stepdad on the cost of a 2009 Saturn VUE that was literally driven to the grocery store and back since it has like 12K miles on it. We got it from a local auto auction for a pittance, but it needs a little work He is an auto-mechanic so I will foot the cost for parts and he'll provide the labor. My daughter will be a licensed motorist very soon with a vehicle of her own.

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and best wishes for a healthy, happy, and prosperous New Year. Be good. If you can't be good, be good at it.

Reunited and it feels so good...

I am not really nervous about her being on the road as she is a very good driver. It is the other idiots out there that concern me. The VUE's have a pretty good safety record but the gas mileage on them is pretty shitty. On the plus side, if something breaks her stepdad knows enough about cars to fix it himself. That was the whole point of getting her a vehicle that did not require NSA level cryptologists to help with the maintenance.

It is better to stay silent and be thought an idiot than to open your mouth and confirm your stupidity. Then, uh, stop doing that, Terry. I still love you, old man, so please shut up.

The fix is IN~!

You know, about that whole degenerate gambler thing: It's a very LOUD movie. Safdie Bros working that sensory overload gimmick.

The Rockets losing to the corpse of the Warriors must have been Santa's gift to the DVDVR.

Merry Christmas, Happy Yule, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Festivus for the rest of us.

Happy Birthday to Rickey Henderson, RUSEV, and Jesus of Nazareth

I want to wish the NDVDR family a Merry Christmas and all the best for a New Year bringing with it a new decade. Love the community we have here, Paul xxx.

Whilst it is possible to state a theory that Black Panther is very much an American film made by Americans, projecting a fantastical American vision of (a fictional country in) Africa that would be meaningless to most actual Africans... Gilliam is doing a pretty shit job of making that point. And as far as I know, most African people who watched Black Panther thought it was brilliant. It's one thing to go all 'cultural studies professor being contrarion' on matters such as these, but considering how much that movie meant to millions of people all around the world, criticising it strongly and without caveats is kind of a slap in the face to a lot of people. And when those people have spent a lot of their lives being patronised, marginalised or under-represented, to go after the one thing that says to them "These stories can be about people who look like you" kind of implies you have little or no respect for them personally. Which I would hope was not Gilliam's intention.

Unless you are Lawful Metal. He got coal in his stocking this year.

RIP your calm demeanor. ?

Because if its anyone who knows the real story of Africa, it is the proud citizen of a former slave holding colonial power, right?

Well that ended up being a pretty damn good Christmas day slate.

First matched announced for World Collide:

Dio's opening scream on Mob Rules from Heaven & Hell at Radio City Music Hall.

How did your MVP do against the worst team in the league today...? ???

Love that Danhausen!

I was playing this yesterday and got a pistol with timed payload powers and now bad guys are flying in the air like chairs in the Ghostbusters 2 courtroom scene.

As if we needed another reason to love Zach Sabre jr.

And a special Season's greetings to all the WCW Special Forces members who are working today.

A too sweet Christmas Eve at my godmother's...and I found out one of her sons (3rd cousin to me) is also a wrestling fan.

Thanks for all your hard work.

That is it everyone. Happy Holidays.

It's the most wonderful time of the year. Christmas is officially here. Merry Christmas. Have a good one xxx

What a strange person.

Yeah, after watching that abortion of a Prince of Darkness match, I am only giving Mancer the benefit of the doubt. That goes for the Von Erich kid and Filthy Tom too because that was the most hilariously bad brawling I've ever seen. If you were really gonna mail it in, at least spray gas on each other or stick somebody's head in the trashcan. All the stuff with the Dynasty and the DBS/Low-Ki match was great, though. Dynasty need to be a part of AEW yesterday. Davey Boy will win the Opera Cup and deserves to. He might be the most Canadian talker since Bret* but he can wrestle his ass off. * I forgot about Lance Storm, but Bret might be a closer comparison

Merry Christmas, everybody! Hope y'all get some good shit (pal!) and are having a grand ol' time.

Star Wars fans.

Because he's a shitty wrestler being carried by a lame gimmick?

Gotta love Bandido doing that tornillo practically right into the kid with the blue hair's lap. He officially made himself that kid's favorite wrestler that night. Kee-RIST did Briscoes/Dinastia Munoz start out fast, then after they geared down they amped up the stiffness to match it. That might've been the best tag I've seen all year.

Film: The Shop Around the Corner Picked by: execproducer " It is the superior Jimmy Stewart Christmas film. Ernst Lubitsch didn't invent the filmic love-hate relationship but he nearly perfects it here with the added conceit that Stewart and Margaret Sullivan's bickering co-workers are unaware that they are each others pen pal crush. Also features the Wizard himself, Frank Morgan as their kind but troubled boss. " The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Directed by Ernst Lubitsch Written by Samson Raphaelson,(screenplay) based on the play Parfumerie by Miklós László MGM Reviewed by:J.T. I'll admit. I was pretty surprised when I found out what I was going to be reviewing for this years Christmas movie project. I definitely don't think I'm the first pick to review a romantic comedy, but we're not talking about any old rom-com here. We're talking about the 1940 classic, The Shop Around The Corner, starting James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan; arguably one of the greatest movies committed to film. Jimmy Stewart plays Alfred Kralik, the top salesman at a store in Budapest run by the fussy, eccentric Hugo Matuschek (Frank Morgan, literally taking this role shortly after The Wizard of Oz). The employees oil “Mr Matuschek’s” name across their tongues as they try to anchor positions in a mildly antagonistic hierarchy. The Shop Around the Corner hones one of the perfect rom-com scenarios: the couple who hate each other with the fire of a thousand suns, but will, almost certainly, end up hugging before Act II is over. Klara Novak (Margaret Sullivan) enters the store in the opening scene looking for a job. Initially, she is rebuffed, but when she manages to flog a vulgar musical cigarette box, Mr Matuschek takes her on. She and Alfred really rub each other the wrong way. Happily, both are carrying on anonymous correspondence with partners who seem entirely unlike their professional rivals. Even if you haven’t seen the two movies based on this film (the Robert Leonard helmed In The Good Ole Summertime (1949) starring Judy Garland during the height of her tumultuous relationship with MGM and Nora Ephron's tepid You’ve Got Mail (1998) with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks), you will know where this is going: the idealized correspondents turn out to be the hated workmates. The greenest grass is the turf on your side of the fence. I think I heard this in a song once that had something to do with Piña Coladas and getting caught in the rain. Anyway, as an indie film snob, I'd always heard about the Lubitsch Factor. It was a strange formula which blended sophisticated, urbane comedy with biting satire. The Lubitsch Factor does not really rear its head in this movie as it does in Lubitsch's other movies like Ninotchka or To Be or Not To Be, but it does have that bittersweet taste found in Heaven Can Wait (not to be confused with the 1978 movie of the same title which is a remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1944), not this movie). As a guy, I found it very reassuring that the best romantic comedies out there have a dash of sugar for the ladies as well as a hint of salt for us poor chaps that got dragged along to the theater. The cast in this movie is delightful and the chemistry between Stewart and Sullivan is nothing short of magical. This movie really shows off Stewart's range as well. You normally think of Stewart as the All-American nice guy, but he really comes off as quite the pompous asshole this time around. He's a puffed shirt just waiting for the right woman with a really sharp pin to come around and pop his ego and that's exactly what Margaret Sullivan does. Not only is this a perfectly fine Christmas movie, it should also be required viewing in relationship counseling sessions. Love isn't treated as some magical, ephemeral thing that swoops in and cures all. It is fragile and requires cultivation. Lubitsch does not pull his punches and always keeps it in front of you that there is a real chance that Kralik and Novak will never find the happiness they both desperately long for. Will they both continue to be self absorbed idiots or will they risk their hearts on finding true love in the arms of the person they despise the most? As they say, strange bedfellows. If you and your significant other are stressing, pop this classic into the DVD player and watch it together. Relationships can be combative sometimes, but that doesn't necessarily mean that your partner is the enemy, right? Rebond and Rekindle, guys. It's the season of giving and forgiving. Merry Christmas, and I give this movie my highest recommendation!

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Merry Christmas to everyone here.

iirc, Lucas said Wookies don’t really care about medals, but I can see how Han’s medal would carry a lot of significance to Chewie and why that scene is more than just Chewie getting a random prize.

Saw Uncut Gems this afternoon. This is one hell of a movie. Sandler pulls off a role of a lifetime.

I think Marquez is one of the top guys going right now for his role. He's a solid foundation for the NWA.

If NWA Hard Times gets re-booked to be simply Dave Marquez asking this question to black NWA wrestlers I might pull the trigger on buying the PPV.

Opera Cup ep had some very good matches with the exception of that Prince of Darkness garbage. I particularly enjoyed the finish of the DBS - Low Ki match as it showed that DBS is not just some lunkhead that depends on power to win. Wow, that Barbed Wire match between Mancer and Havoc at the next PPV is an abortion waiting to happen. Why is it that Jimmy Havoc, hardcore specialist, has been involved in some of the worst hardcore matches I've ever seen and I don't really fault his opponents for it.

Tony should be worried about getting his VPs in line first and fixing the increasingly incoherent mess they're making of his show, instead of hitting stunners like a money mark.

Pretty much the only good thing related to the Emperor was the fact that he looked like something out of HELLRAISER EDIT: I’ll stop at triple posting now.

Effy is definitely not playing around with his Wrestlemania weekend show ?

I got the call today offering me the Fort Hall High job, and I accepted. Besides the $$$, my student teaching will now be done on the job, and 3 less credits next semester. So I'll be doing that, and graduate with 33 credits instead of 36. That's in the design of the program, though so its all good.

I don't care if they sell out. I care if the song is fucking terrible. And that song is fucking terrible.