Merry Merry: 2010

Once again, as is her custom, The Bride sends you best wishes for the holiday season. This has been quite an interesting year, and the past three weeks or so have been terrifically intense, bringing events of wondrous household joy, including Claire's highly delightful BAM debut with Mikel Rouse's Gravity Radio, concomitant visits from a posse of relatives (including the in-laws; it was my father-in-law's presence at a screening of Little Fockers that destroyed my opportunity to fudge my reaction to the film, and thus properly join the herd of independent minds...), and lastly, a holiday brunch of some ambition. I'm a lot happier than I was at this time last year (photographic evidence below the fold), but I'm also exhausted. So...

...I'm going to knock off the blogging a little early this season and try to get a little rest, although if the spirit moves me a little further I may chime in with an observation or two. And I'll alert you when my MSN Movies reviews of Blue Valentine and Another Year go up. In the meantime, I wish you all a great holiday however you celebrate it, and all the best for the new year. And many thanks to all of you for showing up, and reading, and contributing to this...thing of ours. Here, have a few more festive images.

We do try to set up a nice spread for our select group of elitist guests. This is just the first course. The granola is home-baked. The yeast products are from The Doughnut Plant. Pomegranate!

Boy, that 13-inch Toshiba with the built-in DVD player sure can come in handy...

Would you buy a used reindeer from this man? (Friend to GK, noting lapel pin: "No." GK: "Yes.")

Comments

[That Fuzzy Bastard]

Was Lovely Wife the newsreader? She was fantastic! It was a beautiful show all around, and I was in awe of her ability to play what must have been fairly unrehearsed text with juuuust the right dose of feeling.

[Oliver_C]

My mouth isn't watering at the sight of all those doughnuts, but at all those Eclipse sets.

[Glenn Kenny]

@ TFB: Indeed, that was she, and thanks from us both for the kudos. She not only read the news items, she compiled and collated them from the AP wire every day. We were a little disappointed with the review of "Radio" in the Times, which largely ignored the film/performance aspects of the piece, and said of Claire's participation, "A woman read news reports." For a brief, laugh-away-the-pain period, Claire was referred to that way around the house, as in, "Say, a woman, would you like more coffee?" etc.

[bill]

Congratulations to Claire! And yeah, those Eclipse sets...you know how many I have? FOUR!

But Merry Christmas anyway!

[Stephen Bowie]

Wow, I noticed the donuts and not the Eclipse sets. I'm really getting older, and not in a good way.

[Owain Wilson]

That granola is just ... immense! Merry Christmas boys and girls.

[The Siren]

The merriest of Christmases to you and YLW, from the owners of another ecumenical tree.

[Jeff]

Square donuts must be an NYC thing (or specific to this shop). Criterion posted a similar looking lot on their Facebook page the other day.

[bill]

See? Doughnuts...Criterion...everything eventually connects. Maybe BABEL wasn't such a bad movie after all.

[Chris O.]

Happy Holidays back at you. Big congrats on both the MSN gig and the weight loss (I know you'll get tired of the latter congrats and will want it to be a normal thing, but it's quite an accomplishment). Congrats to the Mrs. as well. Thanks for a great blog.

[Kevyn Knox]

Happy X-Mas to you and yours Mr. Kenny.

[Tom Carson]

Merry Christmas to you and YLW, Glenn, and bless you for creating SCR. I still remember how Hachette did the Stupid Thing one morning and you had this site up and running by 7 pm the same day. That's what they call undeniable.