I'm in a kind of reduced blogging mode for the holidays, tending to this and that instead of posting as often as I usually do. I'm also not in the mood to follow the news avidly so that cuts down on what I have to write about.
Today, I went to the Costco in Inglewood for some needed supplies. I actually needed them the last two weeks but Costco in the two weeks before Christmas is not a place you want to be. I got some sense of how crowded the place must have been then by looking at the line of folks with items to return or exchange. I think the end of it was in the parking lot of the Costco in Marina Del Rey. As is usual for my trips to Costco, I found myself buying a few items not because I had any use for them but because they were so cheap it was impossible to resist. I'll bet Trump could build his stupid wall — all 900 miles of it, scaled back from his original insistence on 2,000 — for eighty bucks if only he had a Costco card. He could also pick up a rotisserie chicken while he was there.
Some folks have sent me lists of people they think were wrongly snubbed by the TCM obit reel I posted earlier today. Apparently, there's another version of it out that includes Penny Marshall. No, I don't think it was wrong to omit Steve Ditko. Yes, Stan Lee was in it but Stan was actually in many movies and had executive producer credits on many of the most-popular films of the last decade or two. The glaring omission for me was Chuck McCann.
I'm going back to a script. May the rest of your Boxing Day be joyous and filled with many happy returns.