'Tis the season!

Advent begins today, and so it's time once again for my annual Christmas gift to you all. Put a prayer request in the comments, and I'll pray for it every day until Christmas!

Speaking of prayer, thanks for praying for my grandmother. All things considered, she's doing pretty well!

You slay me, 'Once Upon a Time'

How, with multiple writers and editors and actors and producers and Lord knows who else involved in the process, did NO ONE catch the unintentional hilarity of a line like "My daughter's curse is coming"?

On a slightly more serious note

. . . about Once Upon a Time. ​I do enjoy it, though not in the way I thought I would at first. I thought it would be all sweeping and grand and romantic -- instead of which, it's just good hokey fun with an occasional dollop of romance and tragedy. It's never yet successfully pulled off a "surprise reveal" -- in fact, the way it telegraphs its "surprises" has become something of a running joke among the fans. (ETA: No, I'm wrong. They managed to keep the truth about Red Riding Hood and the wolf a surprise. There's an exception to every rule.) Still, there's something appealing, even addictive, about it.

Plus, when Snow insisted that "Good always wins" tonight, I took great pleasure in remembering Dark Helmet's "Evil will always win, because good is dumb." (And Lord knows, some of the good guys on this show tend to bear him out on that.) Any show that reminds you of Spaceballs, unwittingly or not, can't be all bad.

( And yet . . . )