This is another padded weekend for me, with me taking Friday off (I have an almost absurd pile of PTO hours, and finally some opportunity to use some of them), which will then roll into an abbreviated week, with at the very least both Thanksgiving Thursday and Black Friday off. The press of the holiday season -- and in general I'm becoming all the more welcoming of it each year, wanting to let it settle in early -- has this year brought us a more formal sequel to a film that's become a holiday classic, 1983's A Christmas Story . That much-revered (and much-played) film was based largely on some of Jean Shepherd's very loosely autobiographical anecdotes from his 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash . In recent years it's found itself played back to back for 24 hours straight on TBS or TNT -- and that might even be the case again somewhere this year. I didn't find it in the immediate listings, though ...
A group of writers each take a day of the week to say something