Merry Christmas!

I decided, with the assistance of my Gia and my water-logged buddy, that this is going  to be my annual Christmas post.  Such a great song.

The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl doing Fairytale of New York.  Have a great one everyone!

H/T Savannah Marsh Mama

Christmas Giving

I dig Christmas.

I dig Christmas music.

I dig Christmas movies.

I dig giving and receiving Christmas gifts.

I hate Christmas commercials.

Especially the ones where a husband tricks his wife into thinking the small box he is giving her is a piece of jewelery, when it's actually the keys to a brand new BMW parked with a huge honkin' bow in their snow-swept driveway.

Have you ever given a car to a loved one for Christmas? Has anyone in your family? Has anyone you have ever met done it? Has everyone anyone in your family ever met someone who has done it?

I fucking hate those commercials most of all.

But I dig Christmas itself. That's something.

Merry and Happy

Christmas, New Year's, Holidays...whatever.

Seems like everyone else is taking some time off blogging for the holidays, so I figured I might as well join them.  You may see something here over the next week and a half.  Then again you may not.  But that's what makes it so exciting, right?

No?  Crap.

Go do it to it, people!

Bad Santa...bad!

Holiday Hangover

Not from drinking too much, although we did our share on Christmas Eve with those basil martinis. They were fantastic, by the way. I can't believe how smooth and easy of a drink it was. I wonder how it would taste with an infusion of cilantro instead. Gonna try that next time, but maybe it would be more of a summer drink.

Anywho, we plan on spending most of the rest of the weekend sleeping it off in shifts. Too much food, just enough family, not enough booze.  All of that adds up to a couple of tired polecats.  Haven't even played with our Christmas gifts yet.  Not really, anyway.

I have dabbled with the new Flip Video UltraHD camcorder that Gia gave me.  Seems real easy to use so we, of course, used it to make a "baby drinking a beer" video.  OK, so we lack imagination.  Like I said...we are dog-tired!

Baby Emily and an empty beer bottle from BE Earl on Vimeo.

PS - Hmm...takes a while to upload a video to Blogger.  Gotta be a better way.

PPS - OK, Blogger's video embedder sucks. Let's give Vimeo a try, shall we?

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Note: Remember to play the Bug-Eyed Trivia Challenge every day. No babies were intoxicated in the making of this video.

The Day After

Well, it still kind of the night of Christmas but it's after midnight, so let's just say the Holiday is over. And we will celebrate, bullet-style with some randomness about the past few days, shall we?

• New movie review goodness on MovieGrenade for those 2 or 3 of you who give a shit. You know who you are. Check back daily because I've seen a bunch of crap movies in the past week. Good times.
• Christmas Eve was loads of fun. I finished up my shopping in the morning, did a bunch of wrapping in the afternoon and then went to two dinner parties in the evening. Lots of seafood. Lots of booze. Once again...good times.
• I invented a new shot on Christmas Eve at the second dinner party. It had vanilla infused vodka, pomegranate liquor and a bit of lime juice. I'm thinking about naming it "Three great tastes that taste like shit together". Or something a little less cumbersome. Suggestions are welcome.
• Slept in on Christmas morning. No breakfast. No Mass. No opening of presents. We saved that all for later in the day. Felt really nice. Having kids must be a hassle!
  
• I made a delicious shrimp chowder for the Holiday. It had bacon, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, hash browns and lots of other good stuff as well. Sure to cause a heart attack in those with weak constitutions. Not me. I thrive on that shit.
• Gia and I got each other some wonderful gifts. A highlight for me was a NY Yankee six-pack of games of my choice. A highlight for her was a brand spanking new iPhone. We rock and roll!
• Played some Wii games with my nephew at his house on Christmas Day. Boxing was fun, but I played the first round with the controllers held backwards...I'm not a strong swimmer. Tennis was fun too, although sometimes it ignored my overhead smashes in favor of a topspin volley. The real fun was Wii golf. I kicked much ass on that one. And I didn't break a sweat. Unlike boxing. That's a stupid game!

And that's all I got. Hope your Holidays were a whole shitload of fun! That's what the Jesus would have wanted.