* * * * * Well, that was Christmas Christmas as only slightly chaotic as the plans to pick up Spring's [1] sister changed at the last minute. But dinner went well and the rest of the evening was spent watching a very hokey Hebrew Hammer [2] (think an Orthodox Jewish version of Shaft [3]—I guess that makes it a Judexploitation [4] film) and several episodes of Torchwood [5] (a spinoff of Dr. Who [6]) that was better than I expected it to be (basically, man who can't die heads a team recovering alien artifiacts that show up on Earth). And today was a quiet day. Not much of anything noteworthy happened today. [1] http://www.springdew.com/ [2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317640/ [3] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067741/ [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaxploitation [5] http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/ [6] http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/ Email author at sean@conman.org