Voyage in the Heart

An Arabic music ensemble is the last thing I expected to see there (I've wrote about this before, this year's theme was a village southern France with three fools masquerading as Gaspar, Bathazar, and Melchior - I knew the names from Chrono Trigger, early modern era or perhaps late Renaissance, the ship of fools, eclair d'lune or something like that means the pastry of the moon, and there was a guy in a skeleton outfit who stole the light from the universe).

If photos of the Iran-Iraq War weren't in color, I'd think they were of World War I.

For all winter's faults, the night sky is magnificent.

Not really a burning question: What's the worst Christmas movie?
The answer, of course, is Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny. You thought Santa Claus Conquers the Martians was terrible? I'm telling you, it looks like A Christmas Story next to that cinematic abortion. As I said to my cousin, I suspect that they had a Thumbelina film, but it wasn't long enough for release, and Christmas was coming so the director just slapped a framing story with Santa on it. And elementary school plays had higher production values than the Thumbelina section.
The Agony Booth has a recap of it.

They also have a review of Batman Returns. No, Chip Schreck's actor does not sound like he's doing in impression of Christopher Walken. It sounds like he's doing an impression of either Christopher Walken imitating Arnold Schwarzenegger or Arnold Schwarzenegger imitating Christopher Walken.

Burning Question: Christmas has come and gone, but the songs linger on in our heads and on commercials for some time after that. What's the worst Christmas song ever?
My choice, yes, anything on Christmas in the Stars, probably the one when the nasally-voiced droids sing about what to get a wookiee for Christmas.