Seasonal cheer from the etymonline poetry corner and yours truly.

Thanks. I saw it on a big screen the other night (VIDIOTS!) and it's still a funny damn movie.

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

Thanks, Kate darlin. Love & glad tidings mjm/aot

Love them!

Thank my lucky stars every day.

You got it!

Pizza Night

Actually, a shared opinion should never include the word “actually”.

There are no old whippersnappers.

A good boy.

We loved Train Dreams. One of a kind.

Jews on the same side as the J6 guy in the Camp Auschwitz sweatshirt say the darnedest things.

This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.

Got the date wrong of course: it’s 12/16-12/21. You would have been so early!

Bay Area Alert: if you don't see Jefferson Mays' magnificent solo A Christmas Carol at Berkeley Rep this Friday you've only yourself to blame. It's a beaut.

Lawyers are checking this now, thanks.

Romantics will love Prue’s new show, Prue Leith, Mad Leith, Deep Leith.

According to an ancient bowtie from Western Costume, the Center of the World is at 46th & 5th.

More deep stuff from Etymonline.

We’ve been, many times. The mighty Wurlitzer! Great place.

Wait, what?

Showing Quentin's very first personal print at the New Beverly tonight.

@andyrichter.co should only have a great birthday, imho.

It's remarkable how not ever having been President has aged me.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes yesterday, guys & gals. My family gave me the two heaviest books in America. They know me so well…

Great stuff. Thanks

Beautiful

Missed it, heard it was excellent. The Missus saw Jitney, loved it.

Great season here at Oregon Shakespeare Festival: fine Julius Caesar, beautiful Quixote Nuevo, Shane (!), which is phenomenal and Lisa Peterson’s brilliant As You Like It. Get ye to Ashland before 10/26!