View From the Bushes

First off, I'd like to apologize for not posting on Saturday, it was just one of those times when I was busy all day and then next thing you know there I was lying in bed and I realized that I hadn't blogged. I pictured in my mind thousands of people staring at DireKobold.com and hitting refresh every five minutes, desperately hoping that this time View From the Bushes would appear, and I thought the longer I can keep these people in front of the computer screen, the less chance they have of passing their defective genes on to the next generation.

In any case, moving on... I try and do something with the family every Monday night, though I've been far less successful with this than I would have liked, but I pulled it together tonight and got the whole family (minus the youngest, who went out to grandma's) out to see Elf. If for some reason you're not familiar with the movie, the premise is that a human orphan is raised by Santa's elves. Eventually he outgrows the North Pole and sets out to find his real father.

The critics have been very enthusiastic about this movie and I've even seen some people calling it the next holiday classic. I wouldn't go that far, though it is better than any holiday movie in recent memory (in particular I'm thinking of Tim Allen's Santa Clause movies). However, it has been pointed that I missed seeing Jim Carrey's Grinch, so obviously my background is not exhaustive. The point being that if you have kids it's a great movie to take them to.

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Ross