Not really, no. A Christmas movie to me has Christmas as an essential part of the plot, not just a movie that is regularly showing on Christmas.

That said, this reminds me of the Christmas version of Castle Wolfenstein 3D...

hard to believe he knows white castle and not five guys.

I loved Firefly, truly I did. Sure, The Wire and I had longer together but with Firefly...Firefly always felt like we left something unfinished. But, you know, I'm beginning to feel like I can let Firefly go now. I've accepted that in this life some truly beautiful things will be cut short - and that stings like a mother, but its _O.K_ because we were privileged to share those fleeting moments, and we still have our memories and the DVD box set.

ps. True Story, my current employer revealed to me that I became his first choice for the job after I correctly identified an idly muttered Firefly quotation. (two by two, hands of blue).

pps. Did anybody else watch Castle purely because it was easy to imagine Castle was Mal in an alternate universe. Well, maybe not purely - Stana Katic is very easy on the eye, but it was like, maybe 75% of the reason.

There is a castle there.

My immediate question was... is it free?

Costs $$$ to go up the Seattle Space Needle and it is much less engineered than this puppy.

Okay, the Prince Castle sign threw me at first. Looks interesting though.

Yeah, i dont trust a single fuck with a badge or a gun or both and a uniform. That wasnt always so. At one time i was a pretty lame introverted nerd with the world as my oyster. Listening to Rage Against the Machine made me concerned, because it was too extreme. And then the iron fist of law enforcement thought theyd fuck with me and make me suffer for what was not my burden. And then it just gets worse and worse, a downward spiral of constant legal battles, jail time, mental illness, etc. etc. etc. Its all the same to me, govt, law enforcement, human resource representatives, executives, redcoats. Oppression creates terrorism. Always.

During the Philippine-American war, the events which lead up to our own soldiers commiting acts of genocide started with our disregard of the indigenous people, oppression, and penchant for disrespecting local men and harassing their women; as well, our ignorant and well documented philosophies of Anglo-Saxon exceptionalism. The family of the abused rise up and attack their oppressors. Terrorism will always be so as long as the mighty refuse to respect all ways of life and seek instead to instill their systems of government and create puppet governments whoch fail, destablizing entire regions.

Because now the game is bigger. You dont simply destablize a region: when you oppress people, you destabilize an entire zeitgeist, affecting far more people than ever before. People in America rise up to join forces that provide promises of liberty that America no longer offers. Even if those terror groups themselves lie, the broken people see it as a hope. The oppressed will crawl out of the woodwork and kill. There is no precise pattern when frank castles of the world do their deeds. Its just like the 4000 deaths per year from semitrucks, the trucking industry says 70% (debatable, likely a lower number) of accidents are caused by noncommercial vehicles. Impatient people weaving in and out of traffic and cutting off truck drivers oppresses them and sometimes even they to rise up and do terror.

So simple answer: Love, peace, and good will are what the government should promote. Of course, that would simply open them to being taken advantage of... so, we are fucked, always and forever. But maybe even if we cant promote true peace, perhaps we can at least avoid creating the terrorists we fear.

bouncy castles are awesome. My family rented one for my 21st. I'm telling you, you haven't lived until you've had a mosh pit to slayer while drunk in a bouncy castle.

So much win. *quality

This guy is frickin amazing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/04/ron-clark-academy-oprah-favorite-teachers_n_7191938.html

His school is also pretty amazing. Like Hogwarts.
https://youtu.be/MRp2R9-otmg

Even Better is this amazing talk he gives (which i may have to sift). He should be given the keys to America's education castle.
https://youtu.be/HY8XkWVBEpc

I increasingly want to be Alton Brown's friend and hang out with him at his food castle.

There are unitaskers that are in wide and successful use in the kitchen. The potato peeler for example. I mean, you can use it on carrots as well but it basically does one specific thing. The garlic press is generally considered to hold merit. I'm certainly never going to do that thing where you press down hard with the flat of an extremely sharp kitchen knife on an irregularly shaped clove of garlic.

You're right, it's not the fall, it's the landing. Like death, we shouldn't be afraid of being dead but they dying itself.
I ain't afraid of no fall. I got a bouncy castle at my disposal.

'Rooftop bathtub in a castle truck in New Zealand' is a phrase I want to repeat over and over and over.

http://videosift.com/video/Tiny-House-Truck-transforms-into-Fantasy-Castle

Needs to go to Burning Man!

Now that's a bouncy castle.

No crisis. He was King of the Castle and he was rubbing it in their faces.

Oh man. you're putting me on the spot with that question. I traded 1/2 ownership of a 128mac for my brother's old apple 2 and a shoe box of floppy's. I didn't go through 1/2 of them before I got kicked out of the house and he took it all back. I remember a few text games...hitchhikers guide among them. I think also defender, Montezuma's revenge sounds familiar, Wolfenstien, Beyond Wolfenstien, Cannonball Blitz, Centipede, choplifter, crystal castles, frogger, galaxian, joust, kung fu master, leisure suit larry in the land of the lounge lizards, lode runner, missile defense, moon patrol, qix, tapper, ultima (maybe ultima 2), and zork. That's all I recognize from the list.