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                                                                                                             The Shape of Water:      (An abused, humanoid fish species can find love with a woman and I can't even get a text back.) After a successful Christmas,  I took a day off work and went to go watch the highly anticipated The Shape of Water .  My interest in this film started over ten years ago when my buddy Guillermo Del Toro was in talks to direct The Creature From the Black Lagoon   remake but then it fell apart. When I first learned about The Shape of Water  my excitement returned and came to think of this as an unofficial Creature re-telling and in a way it could very well be seen that way. At it's core, this movie is about the two simplest human emotions, love and fear.  The fear of loving and hate through the fear prism.  Stepping back, this film is a beautifully emotional love story set in the worst sociopolitical climate this country has faced.  1962, whe

Memorable Christmas Commercials In no apparent order, some of the more memorable Christmas commercials from the 90's.  the best decade to grow up in.                                           Fruity Pebbles Christmas This one for Fruity Pebbles if from the early to mid 90's and it involves part of our favorite modern Stone Age family. Fruity/Cocoa Pebbles commercials always had Fred getting unreasonably mad that Barney was trying to steal a bowl of cereal even though Fred seemed to always have boxes of it. At one point, Barney had to have just simply asked Fred for a bowl of cereal and eventually Fred said no.  Sometimes in my head I wonder how much of a dick Fred was or if Barney was one of those people who always want to leach off of you and never do anything in return.  In any case, Barney impersonates Santa and breaks in to Fred's house only to find Santa and Fred already enjoying a bowl of delicious cereal.  (Nevermind that Santa showed up to

The Most Annoying Christmas Songs For a couple years now, every November we get treated to 24/7 Christmas music from certain stations.  Some think it's too early and some look forward to that day. There's even countdowns until the station switches over to X-mas music.  This year, I was excited but decided not to tune in until after Thanksgiving was over.  As much as I love Christmas songs, there are certain songs which I detest and cannot stand.  I often think of how cool it would be if we could write a list of songs for radio station to never play again ( Living La Vida Loca, Despasito, Don't Stop Believing, Enter the Sandman ) based on their constant rotation.  During Christmastime, there are songs that are just bad, not necessarily because they are played a lot, but because they are boring, tedious or annoying.  I hope I don't upset Jesus, a lot of the songs on this list are about His birth.  I love Jesus but these songs do Him a disservice.  Here's the

Merry Christmas..time season.  Enjoy some 80's goodness!