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Julkalender

My swedish pal Peter and his wife Lotta created an advent calendar featuring her children’s book characters and his photography. Let it load and click on the pics to biggify. Cute as heck.

Carter’s My Kind of Christian

Listen to this two minute segment of today’s Talk of the Nation visit with Jimmy Carter.

Re-Wonka

Here cometh the new Charlie. I’m simultaneously thrilled and wary. No one can replace Gene Wilder, so I guess that’s why Depp is completely different: younger and green(?). The sets look beautiful, as is to be expected from Tim Burton, but I'm disappointed in the Golden Ticket...

Coliseum (incidentally the old Southwest Airlines font) works okay in its bold antique woodiness, but c’mon guys, there are only seven of these babies in existence — where's the ornamentation? Wonka logo’s nice, tho. I wonder what Mark’s take will be.

I suppose they didn’t use any of the magical Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley penned music, since it's all Elfmanned up. And where are the oompa loompas? I want to see an oompa loompa now! I want the world. I want the whole world. I want to lock it all up in my pocket, it’s my bar of chocolate! Give it to me now!