Well, dear readers, there is but one count them one day to go before Christmas. I tell you, nothing is stirring, not even a mouse. Well, the gardeners are stirring but that is what they do on a Tuesday. I have cleaned my home and I’m ready for my annual Christmas Eve do. All that’s left is for me to cook the foodstuffs that we will be eating tonight. I wanted to get everything ready so that I’d be able to write today as well as prepare the food and by gum and by golly I am and I shall.
We had a splendidly splendid Unseemly Live Chat last night – the room was full and the conversation was lively and sparkling. By the way (BTW, in Internet lingo), if you haven’t heard Donald’s brand spanking new radio show you simply must – it’s very Christmasy. Mr. Donald Feltham will, in fact, be here at my Christmas do.
My kitchen is quite clean – I happen to write on the kitchen table, and the surrounding floor space was cluttered with papars, books, boxes and other assorted doodads and also dadoods. Well, I do not like clutter, but I simply haven’t had time to do anything about it, but yesterday I made time and now it is sparkling clean and uncluttered. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
Last night, I had my annual watching of Mr. Roman Polanski’s masterpiece, Chinatown. It is simply put, a perfect movie, a movie where every single element works – from the brilliant script by Robert Towne, to the great cast (every single role is perfectly cast), to the production design of Richard Sylbert, the camerawork of John Alonzo and the sparse but amazing score by Jerry Goldsmith (the score was written in something like two weeks, when Goldsmith was brought in to write a replacement for Philip Lambro’s original score). All produced with taste by Bob Evans (who insisted that Goldsmith write a new score – if you want to hear a bit of the original score, it’s in the trailer for the film). If, for some wild reason, you have never seen this film, you must do so immediately.
What am I, Ebert and Roeper all of a sudden? Don’t I have foodstuffs to prepare, novels to finish, adaptations to finish, films to finish, presents to wrap? I do and I shall.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below so we can see what unseemly things await.
Has anyone noticed not a creature is stirring, not even a mouse? Except for Luckie, who is roaming around restlessly because the gardeners are making her very nervous.
Can you believe this is our second Christmas Eve together? And I don’t know who I’d rather spend it with than you, dear readers. So, check back often today, because we’re havin’ a party and my guests will be posting and things will be festive and fine, and there will be merriment and mirth and laughter and legs.
Have I mentioned how clean my kitchen is? Except for the occasional nugget of Luckie food, that is. Do you know what she likes to do? She likes to eat from her bowl but she likes to drop three or four pieces of food on the ground so that I will tell her to go back and pick them up, which she does. It’s sort of a little food game she likes to play.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must prepare tasty morsels of food, including cheese slices and ham chunks, I must set the table, I must put out our festive red and green candles, I must but a log in the fireplace or perhaps two logs in the two fireplaces. But I will be checking in often and we want lots of Christmas activity here at haineshisway.com. You won’t find more Christmas spirit anywhere on all the Internet. Why, even the mice are stirring around here. Today’s topic of discussion: Where will you be spending Christmas day? Second topic: What is your favorite Christmas meal? Post away, my pretties.