The Nosebleed Section V 2.0

Making Your Holidays More Special

This year, after we put up the Christmas tree, Amy and I sat down to do what has become a bit of a tradition, watch the Peanuts Christmas Special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and learn the true meaning of the holiday (apparently Jesus Christ is involved, who knew?).

Still when I watch my DVD, I can't help but feel like something's missing. Its the the drum accompanied intro that CBS used to air right before the special. It was like the perfect Pavlovian response, something holiday-ish is coming, and its going to be good, that swirling graphic wouldn't lie to us, its going to be special!

So here's what you do before you sit down next time to watch "A Charlie Brown Christmas", click on this link and watch this immediately before the start, and your viewing will be complete.

Playoffs? PLAYOFFS!?!

Folks, let's not get all crazy here, yesterday's 49ers 24-14 win over the defending NFC Champions was nice, as was sweeping the season series (sorry Julian Peterson), but the team is too inconsistent each week, hell within each game they have major consistency issues (see: uh, last night's victory's first half), to even begin to utter the words "playoffs". They are improving, and if the NFC and specifically the NFC West keeps at their less than stellar pace next season, and we continue getting solid help in free agency and the draft, and the major contributors stay healthy, and the Yorks don't do anything else stupid, and Mike Nolan is allowed to wear a suit, then yeah, the playoffs in 2007 is a real possibility.

Besides if by some miracle we did make the playoffs this year just think of how we've fared in games against teams with potential playoff aspirations (save Seattle), you do remember the blowout losses to the Eagles, Chiefs, Chargers, Bears, and Saints, don't you? Not pretty.

I Have A Serious Cinematic Question for Y'all

This is something that's been driving me batty since I was 8 years old.

"Don't feed them after midnight"

Now, technically isn't it always after "midnight"? 11:59pm is after midnight of the same day. What gives man? 

Anyone have any theories? Or what "after midnight" technically entails. If its "don't feed them after midnight, but you can feed between the hours of 6:00 am and 11:59 pm on any given day", they should really clear that up and save possible future Mogwai/Gremlin transformations.