I realized it was completely out of control when I was asked to store some 55 gallon drums of diesel fuel in my garage in case it was needed for my company's generator. Not.

Sure. I'll give this a go. Thanks for the warning and I'll put my MST3K hat on first.

Slightly off-topic: There are over 3,800 Netflix Genre Codes but none for Christmas movies. Three thousand eight hundred. But if you're looking for Steamy Gay & Lesbian Movies from the 1980s (#4324) - you're in. Just a personal pique that comes up every year around this time. . .

I've found that any beer with a picture of a monk on the bottle and which has been imported from Europe is usually pretty good.

Thank you for this. I'm about to make use of an Amazon gift card.

And this:
Adult Jokes You Never Noticed in Monsters, Inc.

meh

Westerns? They ain't got the best westerns! They don't know the best westerns. I'll show you the stinkin best westerns!

An impressive list. I've seen all but two and am thinking that in addition to the one cutely referenced above, there are a few others more deserving: Little Big Man, Hondo, Blazing Saddles, Ulzana's Raid, the John Ford Cavalry Trilogy and since they included No Country for Old Men - Hell or High Water.

OK - that's more than a few and I cheated. Perhaps the list is just too short. . .

I was listening to the radio earlier this week and the DJ says it's Sally Fields' 71st birthday today. We all remember her as Robin Williams mom in Mrs. Doubtfire. And I'm like Say What?

Great story on this bridge in the WSJ a while back. They can't raise it because of the railroad tracks. They also can't lower the road. It is what it is and the video site which kinda started as a joke is now world famous.

..sigh.. Really wish Dark Shadows was back on Netflix. . .

Agree with Shoehorn. Most "best of" lists exist to start a discussion and these are successful at that.

A deserving Vampire film: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

And as Shoehorn also noted, a deserving Zombie film: Pontypool

Small, well-done independents from Iran and Canada.

No data for Maine eh? Well, I don't know what the odds are, but I'm pretty sure I know what the animal is. . . .

The costume originated from smiffys - a UK firm. It's no longer available there, but based on their other offerings it would appear it was originally presented as a WW2 Evacuee Girl Costume and someone at one their distributing subsidiaries took an artistic marketing solution to the problem of selling it outside of the UK were no one knows the history of evacuee children while everyone knows Anne Frank. From one seller's site: This costume makes a historical enhancement to your child's history project on World War II, or school book report on the Narnia books or the iconic Diary of Anne Frank. Stockings and shoes not included.

Agree it was a very bad move. In the realm of stupid, but I don't think there was any intentional malice.
The Telegraph-UK article