Meet Me in St. Louis

Okay, so I realize this film is in the "1001 Movies You Must See" list because of Garland and Minelli, and the musical numbers, and the sparkling high-contrast technicolor vividness of the 1944 film.

But...

I know, I know. Much beloved. Holiday favorite. Cameo by June Lockhart. Still... I'm going to admit it here: "It Is A Chick Flick!" Yep. Director Vincent Minelli made a loving portrait of a mild-mannered so-tamely-dysfunctional-it's-silly turn-of-the-last-century family melodrama... with musical numbers (The 'Trolley Song', "Meet Me In St. Louie", "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"). But that doesn't change the fact that it's a chick flick.

At least it's a pre feminist film, so while there ARE strong female leads, and they indeed "rule the roost", they don't do it by emasculating, and belittling the male characters. (ala. "Enchanted") But from my perspective, it's as if half the movie going population are left scratching their male-patterned heads, and wondering what the "Big Deal" is.

"A Christmas Story" still stands as my favorite Christmas 'feature film', while "The Hogfather" is my favorite holiday TV movie (aka 'Terry Pratchett's The Hogfather').

Oh... and I'll have to upload photos of last weekend's "SantaCon Seattle" - 400-500 Santas on a pub crawl trying to find out who's been naughty and... well... naughty mostly.

The 4 F's of SantaCon:
1) Don't F*** with Children.
2) Don't F*** with Police.
3) Don't F*** with Security. and
4) Don't F*** with Santa.

It was A HOWL!!!