In order for me to properly review this Xmas movie, I afraid I need to warn everyone here this review will be reposted every evening until New Year’s Day.*
This is my review of San Tan Lumberjack Oatmeal Amber:
Naturally, A Christmas Story takes place in that short time in the 1940’s when the older Boomers were just lucid enough to remember the time in their childhood just after the war but its clearly not yet the 1950’s because no TV set is anywhere in the movie. It begins when the narrator reminisces about the time his mother asked what he wanted for Xmas.
He wanted what every red-blooded American boy wanted: a Marlin Model 1895 SBL .45-70 Red Ryder BB Gun.
The movie alternates between the plot of him raising the prospect to various adults in his life to become a proud 2A activist—his mother, his teacher, even the department store Santa Claus (TW: not Billy Bob) all of whom dismiss his only wish for Xmas with the timeless retort, “you’ll shoot your eye out.”
Often discouraged, this basic plot is interrupted at various points in the story that present a quaint day to day life in 1940’s Indiana. Like the scene where he curses out his dad, or the one where we find out why you don’t lick a frozen pole, or the one where Ralphie goes beast mode.
“Eat Haram, Saddam.”
Xmas day come around and Ralphie’s dad in the greatest of secrecy gets his gun. Okay, he just didn’t tell his wife. Where he then proceeds to hang a target on a convenient piece of sheet metal in the backyard and a ricochet hits him in the face. In effect, he shoots his eye out…
A movie nobody actually wanted to see—in theaters. Put it up on syndication and somehow nobody with basic access to cable TV can ever get away from it. This is the Mariah Carey of Xmas movies. It went decades as the one “newer” movie that everyone liked well enough to incorporate into their holiday traditions that nobody actually considered it was the beginning of the stagnation of American culture. Due to the controversial nature of children owning weapons, this movie cannot be made today. Absolutely not, unless it is one of those Daily Wire movies. Even then it would mean Ralphie is not receiving a BB gun, but is giving it back to his dad in order to grow into an AR chambered in 5.56. He won’t be shooting at cartoonish thieves either, more likely he’d be shooting at blue-haired Transgender Islamic Terrorists. How will we know the terrorists have blue hair when they’re wearing a Hijab? I dunno, but these terrorists will probably attempt to block traffic on a bleak, cold Xmas morning, preventing Ralphie’s family from attending Xmas church services. Naturally, this is one of those over the top evangelist services with the flashing lights and the flying drummers because singing Hark the Herald Angels Sing at midnight is too passe for these weirdos.
You know what? I take that back, Daily Wire should definitely remake this movie.*
This beer with the lumberjack wearing cyberpunk goggles threw me for a loop. The most common complaint I hear about amber ale, brown ale, and oatmeal stout is they are too sweet. This is somewhere in between the three, and unfortunately I share this complaint. It is a bit different, and I applaud the effort but it needed to be balanced out just a bit. San Tan Lumberjack Oatmeal Amber: 2.1/5
*Not serious.
🤘 I was there! I must have seen a trailer for it. I told everyone, “You’ve gotta see this movie!” I suspect that after ET, they disregarded my endorsements.
ET sucked a big giant donkey cock.
Well, sheesh; my point was that ACS was good.
/pebble kicked
I’ve never seen either of them.
Smart man.
It’s a fun movie. You should see it once, anyway.
ET, the movie, isnt that bad. That is an understatement for the video game.
ET is most likely the worst movie ever made. ACS is a fond memory.
ET was a decent, but not great movie. Yes, the video game did suck giant donkey balls. The movie did have a good libertarian theme running through it, which I appreciated even as a youngster.
I used to respect you.
I thought I knew youse!
oh, boo the hoo — 🎵
Nice.
Harsh.
I still love TOG but I cannot abide any love for ET. I hated that movie the day I saw it. Nothing has changed since.
I don’t mind disdain for ET. Xmas Story, OTOH…
Beer doesn’t sound too interesting.
Wondering when I should break out the Troeg’s Mad Elf Grand Cru….pair it with something? I still have some normal Mad Elf from last year.
I should get some Mad Elf. That is some top shelf beer.
Its not. Its like expecting Elizabeth Hurley but getting stuck with Heather Graham.
At which respective ages?
Any?
As hot as older Liz is, I wouldn’t take that over young Heather.
Ah, I thought we were accounting for age as a variable. Carry on.
Damn, I could use a 45-70.
Marlin would be my Go To in spite of everything Suthen says about Wincs. I had 2- 94s and a 336, miss that 336.
The good news is Marlin is now owned by Sturm-Ruger so the extractor issues Marlin used to have were solved. They’re excellent brush rifles.
If you want a Marlin 38-50, let me know. It’s older than you by a long stretch however.
My brother had a Winc 38-55, back about 70 years ago, it was worn out when he got it, a couple years later he had a Marlin 336 30-30 that he used for the next 60 years. I gave my 336 to my Alaskan granddaughter, she shot a moose with it last year.
I’m down to using a hand gun for deer hunting, a rifle is too noisy climbing into a stand.
Please tell me it’s a .44 magnum revolver with a six inch barrel.
Would it make your day?
I do have a 629 Smith but for hunting I use a Contender with a scope
Marlins are nice but the Winchester has a stronger action. The extractor on the Marlin is a bit weak.
The Henry’s are fantastic rifles but damned are they heavy.
Take your pick, they are all great rifles. De gustibus etc.
I would not take $20k for my 94
got it when I was 12
and would be buried with it if that weren’t a complete waste of greatness
I have a Marlin 1894 in .357. Love that little carbine, and if you shoot .38 through it, it can pair up with my Officers Model Match.
My brother ended up with our grandfathers Win 94, in .32Win special. I wonder if he has shot it lately?
Due to the controversial nature of children owning weapons, this movie cannot be made today.
See, also: ~14-15 year old kid smoking cigarettes while riding a motorcycle with no helmet. (Bad News Bears)
Too true.
Reality has overcame the movies. Now it’s 14 year old kids hijacking a car, using a pistol.
That beer sounds like something one could use as a base for a beef stew.
Honestly, brown ales are the best to cook with. Hops rarely plays well as an ingredient.
Rip Newcastle.
I know! 😢
There’s Sam Smith…?
Hmmm, you might be in to something.
ET sucked a big giant donkey cock.
I don’t recall ever watching ET from beginning to end. I probably would have remembered that part.
Director’s cut maybe?
Yup. It’s only available as an outtake on the Blu-ray disc.
There was an Irish pub/restaurant in Injanapolis with a Guinness-based beef stew, as I recall. They also had good shepherd’s pie.
And now I want shepherd’s pie.
I make one that follows along with an en croute style my wife liked in Ireland. If that’s your jam, Trader Joes makes a frozen puff pastry that uses all butter for $6. Dufor is great, but I need to go to Whole Foods and its $12.
Guinness also plays well as an ingredient for cooking.
You will note that Guinness is not hoppy.
Nigella embraces*:
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/chocolate-guinness-cake
*haven’t tried, but surely better than Kwanza cake (qv).
Well, this is frustrating. Apparently the seller didn’t fully scrub this refurbished laptop. Just booted it up and the setup is asking me for an “Lincare Holdings Inc” email address – no other documentation or windows key was included in the package. May just return it this week and opt for a new one. Not a great start… One pending message to the seller to check.
The advice I had thought of giving but decided not to was to boot from a USB and do a complete reformat of the internal drive to clean out whatever might have been there.
I decided against saying so because I mistakenly assumed “refurbished” meant a fresh OS install. I guess my assumption was wrong.
I assumed it was a fresh install – that would be the default if they say it includes Win10 Pro, etc. Guessing they skipped a step or something on the reformat.
You could at least save all his porn and nude selfies.
This is why I put my used digital devices under a plank and drive over them a couple of times before disposing of them.
Well a lot of businesses upgrade (or gov’t upgrades – which is what I was hoping this was since it’s a similar model to my issued machine) – and don’t need to destroy the old equipment.
+1 electromagnet.
Well yes….if I had a replacement Win 10 Pro key sure…but I don’t. So I’ll probably wind up having to return it unless I get feedback in the next couple of days.
Didn’t you say it was from a healthcare provider of some type? Mention HIPAA, that should get some action.
I had a computer problem I sued HP over and they wanted the HD back as part of the settlement, but I said, “I don’t fucking think so. I’m a medical transcriptionist and so HIPAA.” They backed off that quick.
“Lincare Holdings Inc” – maybe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincare_Holdings
A movie nobody actually wanted to see—in theaters. Put it up on syndication and somehow nobody with basic access to cable TV can ever get away from it.
Maybe it’s time for the film to cross the streams with another beloved franchise for the inevitable reboot.
That’s clever.
Also, I love your avatar. If that’s your dod, he/she/it is adorable.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/12/the-week-in-pictures-gay-context-edition.php
“He’s there, isn’t he?”
LOL
” The most common complaint I hear about amber ale, brown ale, and oatmeal stout is they are too sweet.” Who complains about that? I mean I get it if it’s brown chocolate frappucino milkshake stout. But if it’s the real deal it isn’t sweet.
The hop soup craze has broken people’s taste buds.
I believe it.
/not an IPA fan
One of my short list beers from the local brewpub is an IPA. A hazy one, even. They seem to comprende the concept of “balance”, so it’s not hop soup, but is a properly hopped pale ale.
I enjoy pale ales. I may need to meet you in Tucson.
Who complains about that?
There’s Brooks, Hyperion, sometimes Yusef…
I mean among normal people.
Normies? HERE???
It’s a relative measure.
I recently had Yuengling’s Hershey Porter – which for a chocolate beer you’d be afraid of the sweetness. It is not sweet.
For a mass-produced one, it is surprisingly good. Very smooth.
Sellouts
Rock’s critics included more prominent voices in the right-wing media ecosystem. On the conservative podcast Ruthless, Megyn Kelly lamented what she saw as the crumbling of “the only successful boycott that Republicans have ever engaged in” because “Kid Rock and Dana White want to give it up.” She stressed that she was still “offended” by Anheuser-Busch doing business with Mulvaney (whom she misgendered) and raged that the company still hadn’t apologized to transphobes boycotting the beer.
Anti-LGBTQ activist Matt Walsh tweeted similar talking points the day after Carlson ran his interviews with Rock and White. “If we back away from this victory now it will show that we’ve learned nothing and don’t want to win,” he warned. Walsh also criticized Rock by name on his Daily Wire show, along with other right-wingers he thinks are too forgiving of a company that “spat in the face of its own customers.”
I don’t care what Kid Rock does. I will continue to not watch UFC while not drinking Bud Light, in my Levis 501s. I’ll also continue to not watch Megyn Kelly, but not because she misgendered Herr Mulvaney.
Right when the stock price was finally back to within 10% of when BUD partnered with a
transgender activistflamboyant cross-dresser who cosplays as a tween girl, more bad news comes down the pike.AFAIK, Bud Light sales are still projected to be down a billion dollars year-over, with no end in sight. Something tells me that none of the folks who stopped drinking it are going to start again just because they have permission from Kid Rock and Dana White.
I doubt most light beer drinkers could pick out a brand in a blind taste test.
Yup. Bars are notorious for hooking Coors Light up to the Bud Light tap ( or vice versa) when one runs out.
Insert Miller Lite in here too.
“Mulvaney (whom she misgendered)”
She referred to him as “she”?
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Channeling HM?
If you’re not down with pretending a man is a woman, you’re an “anti-LGBTQ activist” LOL.
This is why I put my used digital devices under a plank and drive over them a couple of times before disposing of them.
What, no scrapyard electromagnet?
Something tells me that none of the folks who stopped drinking it are going to start again just because they have permission from Kid Rock and Dana White.
Not even if Peyton Manning buys a round for the house?
A-B missed an opportunity by not hiring his brother. Traded the fake bitch for a real one.
You’re referring to two time Super Bowl winner Eli Manning? Against the Brady Patriots? Including one of the biggest upsets in history? That bitch?
Ouch. That has to leave a mark (twice).
Light beer?
Like a session Ale?
Dude won tickets to see TSO, so here we are…
There’s no way that the whole Siberian Orchestra is trans.
I’m sure they’ll announce their pronouns immediately.
They did not announce their pronouns. Am disappoint.
Lol
With Everton’s win today, they are in 16th bogo standings and 9th/10th real ( depending on West Ham tomorrow).
4 straight shutout wins in PL for first time in 21 years.
War on carbon
The Biden administration said on Friday it will recognize a methodology favored by the ethanol industry in guidance to companies looking to claim tax credits for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), a pivotal win for the politically powerful U.S. corn lobby.
But the administration will also update the methodology by March 1, which leaves some uncertainty for corn-based ethanol producers, as it could ultimately tighten requirements around SAF feedstocks.
The global aviation industry, which is expected to reap net profits of over $20 billion in 2023 and accounts for about 2% of global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, is one of the hardest sectors to decarbonize, as the equipment is not easy to electrify. Airlines argue that incentives are needed to boost the market for SAF, which can generate 50% less greenhouse gas emissions over its lifecycle than petroleum fuel, but is typically two to three times more expensive than fossil-fuel-based jet fuel.
It’s too bad planes can’t run on bullshit.
WTf? Rolls Royce has thoroughly tested SAF on their engines in the UK but at least its soybean oil based. This is a straight up handout.
politically powerful U.S. corn lobby
Big Ethanol says shut your soyboy mouth.
Never
Every “solution” to the klimate katastrophe hoax is a fucking handout. Imagine that.
We have a name for the, um, recipient in the porn video filmed at the Senate:
Aidan Maese-Czeropski
Naturally, he has posted on Linked In that he is being persecuted for being gay. Which is, of course, a lie.
I still want the name of the, err, pitcher in the video. And, of course, I want to hear that they have both been fired. While in ordinary times, I wouldn’t call for their criminal prosecution, under the New Rules since J6, I have little doubt that they should both be criminally charged, arrested, imprisoned without bail, and forced to wait years for trial.
Them’s the New Rules, aren’t they?
Ya know, I recall the SNL from when Nancy Pelosi first became Speaker…
I can’t wait for his illustrated children’s book A Day in the Life of a Senator’s Assistant to be in every elementary school library.
I am reminded of reading about participants in a recent SF orgy/parade trying to pull that bullshit when people requested them to maybe it knock it off with the public sex.
Shyiiiit! More people have been fucked in the ass in that chamber than perhaps anywhere else in the world. Why start prosecuting now?
The New Rules, bro. The New Rules.
Oh, and I just read that Kevin Clinesmith, who falsified evidence to the FISA court so Carter Page could be secretly surveilled, got his fucking law license back.
But has his wrist healed from the terrible slap it got?
It’s nauseating.
Everyone in Texas is driving like they stole it today. Houston is especially bad.
Spaghetti, round one. I made a batch of sauce in the crockpot: Italian sausage, Newman’s Sockarooni and extra mushrooms and black olives. BUENO.
I’ll be eating it for days, because I can’t make one meal’s worth at a time.
When I make sauce it ends up in a bunch of plastic quart containers that go into the freezer. I’m pretty close to due to make another batch.
ET is most likely the worst movie ever made.
Not even close. Starship Troopers is the worst movie ever made. It’s even worse than Gangs of New York.
WTF is wrong with you!p?
As I said last night, Dondi.
You are a bug loving traitor to humanity.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar fell and broke his hip. That sounded crazy to me until I realized he’s 76.
Time marches on for all of us.
I know about those things. One would think that those years of experience would be helpful but they ain’t. I’m sure Jabbar took a lot of bumps on the court, there’s a reason it’s called the hardwood.
Hope for a good recovery, if not I can teach him how to limp.
White Men Can Limp?
LOL.
Kareem seems like a good guy. It happened at a concert so he got swift medical help.
Speedy recovery! Even if he gets a fashionable limp out of the deal.
That sounded crazy to me until I realized he’s 76.
It’s a long way down, too.
I figured “Christmas Story” was set in pre-war 1939 due to Oz characters, and end of depression ” barely getting by” vibe. And how about Ralphie’s mom in “Slapshot?”
Yes, his decoder pin is stamped “1940”.
Ah! That’s a good clue. 👍
They also had a lot of references to WW2 in Europe as well as Wizard of OZ
Sorry Creech, I missed your OZ reference. Might be drink wine with my MIL and for the past few hours.
Woah. Never realized she was Hanrahan‘s wife.
You weren’t looking at her face were you?
No, no I was not.
Huh. Melinda Dillon (Ralphie’s Mom) died earlier this year.
Honey-do list complete for the day. Curtain rods hung, floating shelves built, nearly all the cardboard dropped off at the recycling bins (the county actually places them about)…hockey tonight if we can stay up that late. Burgers will go on the grill in a bit I think though the house is all sleeping at…5pm.
La vida es buena, no?
There was something on the news a bit ago about the Christmas STory house being a museum for the movie – it had only been used for exteriors in the movie, but the owners re-furnished it to copy the movie. Kind of like the Brady house here in LA I guess. Which would be cool if you were there for a party, but I can’t really imagine visiting either just to go there.
Picked up a couple of bottles of mead from Jungle Jims. I wasn’t as impressed with that place but it is gigantic and we did spend 2 hours in it while sampling cheese and beer.
What mead did you buy?
I have the Marlin .45-70 guide gun. Kicks like a donkey. It is a beauty and I love to shoot it, but wish I was richer to afford the ammo. 😢
I haven’t bought ammo for so many years, stocked up on reloading supplies over the years. Now I shoot so little I gave my stuff away. I still have lots of loaded stuff though.
I found a 45-70 after a house fire, the metal was soft and after dinking around with it for a while threw it away.
Whelp, Santa just rolled through my ‘hood. 🎄