Okay, last year we had to deal with the Christmas kissing bears (the ones Hallmark had that have a magnet in their snout so they liplock with severe authority. Well, my father's attorney swung by last night with a gift basket for the family which included another one of these (all by himself unfortunately). We probably wouldn't have noticed the magnet in the solo bear, had the pair not been there the previous year. S'anyway... we got to thinking about it, and since we clearly had too much wine at the poker game, when we got back the parents' place, we had to test some theories out. I'd just like to note that I wasn't the one who brought the bears out to do this.

Apparently all of the male Hallmark kissing bears have the same alignment of magnets within them, so they won't kiss each other, and are quite able to demonstrate this issue by mutual repulsion, and displaying the general awkwardness of two beings being forced to kiss. They will, however, allow their magnets to align alongside each other, planting one on the cheek. Clearly, the Hallmark kissing bears are not gay, merely French. That's important to know.

Meanwhile, other observations of the season.
1. Best Buy was attempting cross promotional synergy by placing a Robosapien on top of the stack of I, Robot DVDs. Nothing like encouraging the thought that once the Robosapiens reach critical mass, they'll slaughter the humans. Buy one today for your kid.
2. While the one show I figured should be available on DVD (Police Squad!) wasn't there, (not even where I figured they'd plant it, in a Naked Gun box set,) were a lot of other shows which they were pushing on the public in the TV section. This of course results in the game of "What's the least likely series that someone's putting out on DVD?" I think our clear winner in this was finding that they were pushing the first season of 227 on DVD. Nothing to add here, just couldn't figure that one out.

And good night, and a happy holiday, belated or otherwise, to you all.