Sci Fi Channel sucks me in to the weirdest stuff.I just got through 3 nights of watching a preposterous miniseries about the Bermuda Triangle. It was kinda cool, cause we haven't heard much about the goings-on in the Triangle lately; I imagine this will start a new trend and it will once again be chic.

Have you noticed that otherworldly things have their times in the sun, like bell-bottoms and ponchos? For a while alien abduction was all the rage (best movies are "Communion" and "Fire in the Sky", with a kudos to the Barney and Betty Hill movie way back when with James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons, a pioneer of the genre). The Triangle was hip so long ago I don't remember any movies. I know there were some bad made-for-tv things rather like what I just watched. Voodoo and Santaria had a moment ("The Believers" and "Serpent and the Rainbow"). Sometimes a movie starts a trend ("Altered States" and the sudden opening of isolation tank spas, all gone now). Crop circles have died down a bit; "Signs" was a little late. Some things, like ghosts, will always be popular, but I kind of put them outside of the natural-supernatural new-age hippie-dippie stuff I am thinking about. Remember Pyramid Power? I'd be hard-pressed to find a pyramid outside the Whole Living Expo, and they are throwbacks even there. Okay, so we need to make a movie about the famous "vortexes" in Sedona. Haven't seen one of those yet and it seems like vortexes would be ripe for the picking. They are so vague you could do anything. Louis L'Amour wrote a book about the Anasazi that was pretty cool - getting some Native American lore into the spotlight would be interesting.

Anyway, my Christmas sale was good; Buster got a couple leftover cat toys. Ramping up for the Christmas blitz (Happy Christmahannukwanzaakah!). Oh, and I did like the Johnny Cash movie. Also, if you are going to see Harry Potter make sure you do it at the movies - it is so dark it might be hard to see on the teevee.

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