Oh, bonny, I'm so sorry. But you did the right thing, and he left you free of pain. It's the hardest thing about being a pet owner, but you did it.

4 more classes then Winter Break....I'm on the countdown.

I'm taking ours down tomorrow because I don't want to come home to dried up tree.

You think they're going to bring the tree with them to the Cape?

Yeah, this is why I never had a real tree when I went out of town for the actual holiday, but I guess if you put it up early enough, it makes sense. I cling to the 12 Days of Christmas starting on the 25th, so I'd rather have it up through Epiphany, but I realize that's not universal.

I need to launder and clean much today.

But I did finally finally finish my next Early Sixties Horror piece which will be posted tomorrow because if you're not thinking about lesbian vampires on the night before the night before xmas then you're doing it wrong.

I've been meaning to mention, Hec, that I've really been enjoying your Horror pieces. I like the thesis and the selection of movies (a few of which I still need to see).

because if you're not thinking about lesbian vampires on the night before the night before xmas then you're doing it wrong.

I think that depends on what "it" is.

My mental well-being requires a lit-up Christmas tree to stave off all the deep winter darkness. I always get it the first weekend in December that Emmett is with me, and I always take it down the first day of the New Year after Emmett has gone back to his mom.

I like to have it up for New Year's Day because I love that scene in The Thin Man where Wm. Powell is shooting the ornaments off with his BB Gun.

I've been meaning to mention, Hec, that I've really been enjoying your Horror pieces. I like the thesis and the selection of movies (a few of which I still need to see).

Thanks, Frank! My next one is on Vadim's Blood and Roses.

Then I'll do a twofer on The Innocents and Burn, Witch Burn which is just recently available on DVD for the first time and a very good adaptation of Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife. It stars Peter Wyngarde, aka Jason King, aka "That Character That Was the Inspiration Mostly For Austin Powers." Wyngarde was also, of course, in The Innocents as the evil Peter Quint and had a couple of famous turns on The Avengers in the Hellfire Club and also the Hollywood spoofy Epic.

Whoa! I didn't realize he was a fellow internee as a kid at the Lunghua Camp with J.G. Ballard. Nor that he had a ten year relationship with Alan Bates. Huh.

But I did know that he was the inspiration for the character Jason Wyngarde in the X-Men as part of the whole Hellfire club, mess-with-Jean-Grey's mind deal.

My mental well-being requires a lit-up Christmas tree to stave off all the deep winter darkness.

I like this idea. Next year I'll put up lights starting on Hallowe'en and leave them up until St. Patrick's Day.

Is there a way to attach lights to the ceiling and walls without punching holes in either?

this year we're at home, and we got the tree the day after thanksgiving. I love having a tree and wanted it in the house for as long as possible.