Elsemere, our neighborhood watering hole, shuttered its doors on New Year's eve. A pandemic casualty.

Fried olives, a christmas tradition.

We are ever on the lookout for movies that we can slide into the traditional xmas rota. The criteria for inclusion is fairly wide open. One time I tried to include Reign of Fire on the grounds that the ash resembled snow and Mathew Mcconaughey resembed a post-apocalyptic Santa.