I love Portlandia. If you haven’t seen it yet, look for reruns if you have IFC, or simply head to iTunes.

The only thing better than the show if is the show’s intro. I love Portland. We looked for any excuse to visit when we lived in Seattle, and it (like Seattle, though not as awesomely so) is a city unlike any other. Somehow the intro managed to capture exactly what I envision when someone says “Portland”.

Christmas Eve
9:00am CARTOON - Garfield Show: Home For The Holidays
9:00am NIK - Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Christmas Carol Adventure
9:15am TCM - Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)
10:00am AMC - Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
10:30am TCM - Holiday Affair (1950) Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh
12:15pm AMC - White Christmas Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye
1:00pm ABCFAM - Twas the Night Before Christmas
1:30pm ABCFAM - Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July
10:30am TCM - Holiday Affair (1950) Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh
12:00pm TCM - It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
3:00pm AMC - Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
3:30pm ABCFAM - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
5:00pm ABCFam - Mickey’s Christmas Special
5:15pm AMC - White Christmas Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye
5:30pm ABCFam - WINNIE THE POOH AND CHRISTMAS TOO
5:30pm CARTOON - Garfield Show: Home For The Holidays
6:00pm ABCFam - Jack Frost
6:00pm TCM - Scrooge (1970) Albert Finney
7:00pm ABCFam - Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
7:00pm HGTV - Behind the Magic: Disney Holidays
7:30pm ABCFAM - Twas the Night Before Christmas
8:00pm ABC - Disney’s Prep and Landing
8:00pm ABCFam - Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
8:00pm TBS - A Christmas Story (Marathon)
8:00pm NBC - It’s A Wonderful Life
8:00pm AMC - Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
8:00pm LIFE - A Boyfriend for Christmas
8:00pm TVLAND - National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
8:00pm TCM - The Bishop’s Wife (Cary Grant, Loretta Young)
9:00pm ABC - The Santa Clause 2
9:00pm ABCFam KIDS The Year Without a Santa Claus
9:45pm CMT - A Smoky Mountain Christmas Dolly Parton,
10:00pm Hallmark - Eloise At Christmastime
10:15pm AMC - White Christmas Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye
11:35pm CBS - Christmas Eve Service at NYC St. Paul & St. Andrew
11:35pm NBC - Christmas Eve at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome

Christmas Day
2:00am TCM - Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) Judy Garland
6:00am Hallmark - Eloise At Christmastime
6:00am HBO2E - Home Alone
6:00am TBS - A Christmas Story (Marathon)
7:00am ABCFam - A Flintstones Christmas
8:00am TCM - The Shop Around The Corner (1940) Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart
8:00am ABCFam - Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
8:00am LIFEMN - A Town Without Christmas
8:00am TVLAND - National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
9:00am ABCFam - The Year Without a Santa Claus
10:00am ABCFam - Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
10:00am AMC - Scrooged
10:30am CARTOON - Garfield Show: Home For The Holidays
11:00am CTOON - Olive the Other Reindeer
11:30am DISNEY - Nightmare Before Christmas
11:45am TCM - A Christmas Carol (1938) Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart
12:00pm ABC - Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade
12:00pm AMC - Scrooged
12:00pm HBO2E - Jingle All the Way
12:00pm TBS - A Christmas Story
1:00pm CARTOON - Garfield Show: Home For The Holidays
2:00pm LIFEMN - If You Believe
2:30pm ABCFam - The Santa Clause
3:00pm LIFE - Christmas Blessing
3:24pm CMT - A Smoky Mountain Christmas Dolly Parton,
4:00pm AMC - Scrooged
4:00pm Hallmark - Silver Bells
4:00pm TBS - A Christmas Story (Marathon)
4:30pm ABCFam - Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
5:00pm TCM - King of Kings
6:30pm CMAX - Four Christmases
7:00pm ABCFam - Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas
8:00pm USA - Elf
8:00pm AMC - Scrooged
8:00pm FMC - A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott)
9:00pm TVLand - Everybody Loves Raymond (The Toaster)
9:30pm ABCFam - Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas
9:30pm USA - Elf
10:00pm AMC - Scrooged
10:00pm FoxMC - Trapped in Paradise Nicolas Cage, Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey
10:00pm Hallmark - Moonlight & Mistletoe
10:00pm LIFEMN - Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Cottage
12:00am ABCFam - Ernest Saves Christmas

12:00am LIFEMN - Holiday In Your Heart
9:15am AMC - Holiday Inn
6:00pm Hallmark - Call Me Claus
6:30pm ABCFam - The Santa Clause
8:00pm ABC - Dr. Seuss – How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated)
8:30pm ABCFam - Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
10:00pm AMC MOVIE Prancer

Bold denotes my personal favorites.

12:00am LIFEMN - Diva’s Christmas Carol
3:00pm Hallmark - Little House on the Prairie – Christmas at Plum Creek
4:30pm CARTOON - Dr. Seuss – How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated)
6:00pm ABCFam - Santa Buddies
8:00pm CBS - Home For The Holidays
8:00pm LIFEMN - Holiday In Your Heart
8:00pm ABCFam - The Santa Clause
8:00pm ABCFam - The Polar Express
9:30pm ABC - CMA Country Christmas
10:00pm ABCFam - The Santa Clause 3 – The Escape Clause*
10:00pm HIST SPECIAL The Real Story of Christmas

*Denotes the worst Christmas movies I’ve ever seen.
Bold denotes my personal favorites.

2:00pm ABCFam – Christmas Cupid
2:00pm FX - The Family Stone
6:00pm Hallmark - A Season For Miracles
6:30pm ABCFam - Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
7:00pm CINMAX - Four Christmases
8:00pm FX - Christmas With the Kranks*
9:00pm LIFEMN - Diva’s Christmas Carol (Vanessa Williams)
9:00pm ABCFam - The Polar Express
9:00pm NBC - SNL Christmas Special
9:00pm TNT - A Christmas Carol
10:00pm FX - Deck the Halls*
10:00pm Hallmark - A Grandpa for Christmas

*Denotes the worst Christmas movies I’ve ever seen.
Bold denotes my personal favorites.

Love you PDX. This video is funny and true for too many reasons.

12:15am TCM - The King of Kings (1927)
7:00am ABCFam - Christmas Do-Over
12:00pm ABCFam – A Carol Christmas
2:00pm AMC - Santa Claus – The Movie
1:00pm ABCFam - Snow
3:15pm AMC – Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
4:00pm ABCFam – Snow 2: Brain Freeze
5:45pm AMC - Holiday Inn
6:30pm ABCFam - Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too
7:00pm ABCFam - Phineas & Ferb Christmas Vacation
7:30pm ABCFam – Disney’s Prep and Landing
8:00pm ABCFam - Santa Buddies
8:00pm AMC - Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
10:00pm ABCFam - Santa Buddies – ABC Family Premiere Event
10:00pm TCM - The Shop Around The Corner (1940)

My personal favorites are bold.

If you want debate, head on over to Brand New where the world’s best and brightest logo designers are analyzing this sucker right and left.

4:00pm – CMT – A Smoky Mountain Christmas Dolly Parton
4:00pm – Hallmark – Finding John Christmas
6:00pm – ABCFam – Rudolph’s Shiny New Year
6:00pm – Hallmark - The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
8:00pm – ABCFam - Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
8:00pm – AMC - Scrooged
8:00pm – ABC - Shrek the Halls
8:00pm – Hallmark – The Santa Incident – World Premiere Original!
9:00pm – ABCFam – The Year Without a Santa Claus
10:00pm – AMC – Scrooged
10:00pm – CMT - A Smoky Mountain Christmas Dolly Parton
10:00pm – ABCFam – A Miser Brothers’ Christmas
10:00pm – Hallmark – The Santa Incident

6:00pm – ABCFam – Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
8:00pm – DISNEY – The Polar Express
8:00pm – Hallmark – The Santa Suit
8:30pm – ABCFam – Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
8:00pm – DISNEY – The Polar Express
10:00pm – Hallmark – The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

The Town Christmas Forgot
The Santa Suit
Santa Jr.

The only thing I love more than this commercial is the fact that Hershey’s continues to run it every year, recognizing that schmucks like me remember this commercial playing over and over as a child.

As silly as it may sound, the season hasn’t begun until I’ve seen this commercial.

Like many of you, I’m getting my Mad Men-less fix on AMC from The Walking Dead.

I definitely not your omg-I-love-zombies guy, however, I’m a sucker for the post-apocalyptic fiction. What ‘nerd’ I have in me is tucked away and flourishing quite nicely within this genre.

While I don’t endorse the antics nor attitude of his character, Merle Dixon is played by Michael Rooker has the potential to be a major character. Rooker was born and somewhat raised in Jasper, AL, the greatest city in the world. After this week’s episode (you may remember Merle went crazy, cut off his hand, and ran into downtown Atlanta… which is full of zombies) I’m interested to see how big of a role his character plays.

Rooker also stared in Days of Thunder, one of the best major motion pictures about NASCAR in 1990. (I’m not doing much for my image as a non-redneck living in Seattle, am I?)

Also, side note, here’s a Q&A with Emma Bell (Amy) whose character was the first lead to die this Sunday.

A great screen shot of the quite foggy football game last week between Miami (OH) and Bowling Green.

Yeah. I don’t quite know how to feel about this Megan thing either. As I tweeted post-episode Sunday night, I expected the proposal to be revealed as a dream sequence. Truth be told, as much as I’m intrigued by the ending, I’m fairly frustrated as well.

But then again, it wouldn’t be Mad Men if it didn’t end both thoroughly confusing and/or frustrating.

This insight from Gawker does a simple job of explaining what season four was all about:

The arc of this season seemed to be the integration of Don Draper and his assumed persona with Dick Whitman, the man who he is on the inside. Part of that was getting close to Dr. Faye, a woman who seemed to be an amalgamation of the two types of women Don needs in his life—blond bimbos to have sex with, and smart women to confide in and be friends with. This was cemented when, in a fit of panic, Don confessed the secret of his past to Dr. Faye, or at least part of his secret. Once she knew the truth and still accepted Don, we hoped that his transformation from the booze-soaked bachelor at the beginning of the season to a level-headed and successful ad executive was complete. If he could love Dr. Faye, he could be a complete person and no longer have to live the duality of his personality.

In short: I don’t feel good about Kansas tonight. I don’t care if they lost to North Dakota State… our defense is worse than most high school teams’.

Southern Miss football is a fickle thing when it comes to the national TV spotlight. Therefore, I have a grueling stomach and headache every time we’re “blessed” with a national audience. Here’s some of USM’s good and bad when all of America is watching.

The Good

- Alabama in 2000 on ESPN?? We put up 21 points in the 1st quarter, holding on for a 21-0 win.
- TCU in 2003 on ESPN?? We knock off a Top 10 team, winning the conference at the same time.
- Illinois in 2001 on ESPN? Hard fought battle in the rain… and we win 23-20.

The Bad

- Nebraska (at home… we got NEBRASKA to come to HATTIESBURG) in 2003 on ESPN2? Lost 38-14.
- The Liberty Bowl against Utah from 2003 on ESPN2? We lose 17-0 and our quarterback kicked a guy in the chest.
- This little game from 2 weeks ago, which was only the first flipping televised football game of the entire NCAA football season.

“‘I’m the greatest’ — not if you have to say it.”

Don Draper

Only, in his alcohol-induced state Don could say it best. Good Lord, that was an amazing episode.