My Top Ten Favorite Christmas Movies (in no particular order)

1. White Christmas

2. A Christmas Story

3. Miracle on 34th Street

4. Christmas Vacation

5. Elf

6. Home Alone

7. Its a Wonderful Life (the telephone scene has one of the best on screen kisses i've ever seen)

8. How the Grinch Stole Christmas

9. The Nutcracker Prince

10. Love Actually

Couples I "Ship"

Since I am procrastinating writing my 25 history of feminist thought paper, I though i would waste my time by making up this little list. For those of you who are not fanfiction nerds like me ( to quote Miranda Hobbes, "it's my thing, leave it alone.") ship refers to a couple from a tv show, book, etc that you support. These are all the couples I currently, or have, at some point shipped. Some are obscure. some are more well known. Cheers to living vicariously through fiction! But hey, its a step up from warcraft, at least its creative.

Seth/Summer (The O.C.)

Harry/Ginny

Ron/Hermione

Will/Lyra (His Dark Materials)

Annie/Jeff (Community) partly, but not only because joel mchale is a fucking BABE

Ryan/Kelly (The Office)

Jerry/Elaine (Seinfeld)

Kevin/Winnie (The Wonder Years)

Helga/Arnold (Hey Arnold)

Big Pete/Ellen (The Adventures of Pete and Pete)

Peter/Wendy (Peter Pan)

Laura/Almanzo (Little House)

Eric/Donna (That 70s Show)

Ross/Rachel (Friends) the original greats, in my opinion

Joe Buck/Ratso Rizzo (Midnight Cowboy)

Anne/Gilbert (Anne of Green Gables)

Hoyt/Jessica (True Blood) one of the main reasons i continue to watch this show

Mark/Maureen (Rent)

Erik/Christine (The Phantom of the Opera)

Jane/Rochester (Jane Eyre)

Sid/Cassie (Skins)

Shane/Carmen (The L Word)

Ash/Misty (Pokemon) i'm a huge nerd, i know

Eddie/Rose (Dogfight)

Gidget/Moondoggie (Gidget)

Robin/Marion (Robin Hood)

Jake/Hamilton (Young Americans) again a little embarrassing because the show was a bit sub par, but give me a break. it was at the very end of my freshman year and i was in the throes of my Katherine Moennig phase. Plus Ian Sommerhalder is a babe and they make a cute androgynous couple.

Joey and Caitlin (Degrassi) i know they keep coming up. i'm a fan

Arthur/Gwen (Merlin)

Merlin/Morgana (Merlin)

Jazzy Trailblazing Gender-Benders

Billy Tipton

Born Dorothy Lucille Tipton, this androgynous jazz musician lived life as a man for 50 years while maintaining a number of relationships with various women.

Why has an awesome biopic not been made?

Gladys Bentley

This silk-voiced chanteuse accomplished the impossible: she broke into the male dominated music industry, not just as a woman, but as a black woman and a gay woman. She was openly flamboyant, donning her signature tuxedos and flirting with female audience members. Go Gladys!

Very dapper!

Quirky Crushes

Karen Black

As an aspiring actress with a terrible and, consequently, incurable type of "lazy-eye" (specifically known as Duane's Retraction Syndrome in my case), beautiful, oscar-nominated actress of yesteryear, Karen Black reminds me that nothing is impossible, even for those of us with a squint.

Its pretty visible here, You can see how her irises are slightly misaligned. I had to look really hard. But, I guess that is all some people can see. I just read this on a message board:

"True Story: When I saw her in Airport 75, she played a stewardess how lands a plane...the woman sitting behind me stage whispered, 'How can someone whose cross-eyed land a 747?'"

Beautiful

If I didn't know, I would never, in a million years have guessed that she was cross-eyed like me.

Thank you Ms. Black, for inspiring me everyday, and helping to give me the courage to pursue my dreams!