Joyeux Noel Cafe

Alsace, France
part of the Alsace-Strasbourg Christmas Market

Less than a week until Christmas!

Not to drag an ugly thought into this, but if you're wondering if this is the city that faced a jihadist terrorist attack in its Christmas market a couple of years ago -- yes, this city is on that growing list.

It's almost too many waterfalls.

Funny voice-overs for dogs.

Movie night.

If the world was run by pandas, we wouldn't have any wars! We'd also all be dead.

Cat burglar.

Say, that sparks a memory: I used to like a movie when I was a kid, which probably was actually terrible, called The Thief Who Came to Dinner with Ryan O'Neal playing some kind of white collar drudge who realizes the whole system is corrupt so he becomes a daring cat burglar. (Every third movie in the 70s had this plot.) I believe it costarred the woman I grew up in love with, Jacqueline Bisset.

Anyway: It's not available digitally. I could probably by an old physical copy.

So my question is: Has anyone seen this movie as an adult, and is it any good? When I was a kid, I loved every cat burglar movie (including one of the Pink Panther sequels; any burglary that includes a crossbow was very much a hit with the younger me). But I have no idea if it actually was good at all, or if I was just a kid easily impressed with the most basic "tradecraft" of burglary.

I imagine kids in the 90s thought that crossing a floor of dancing lasers was really really cool, at least the first 537 times they saw it.

Anyway, let me know. I want to see that movie. (I think.)

Update: I've found clips on YouTube. It... it does not look good. Some good bongo playing in the very-seventies credits.

Speaking of Jacqueline Bisset, a few months ago I watched the 80s sex comedy Class. Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy are students at an expensive boarding school (McCarthy's on scholarship), and McCarthy winds up banging Jacqueline Bisset, who turns out to be Rob Lowe's mom. It was... also not great.

On the other hand, Heaven Help Us was pretty good, despite not really having an ending that resolved any of the plot points.

Okay, back to the cute vids:

Dog is given a choice of which waffle to give to the pig, the nice one, or the burned one. He makes the right call.

This kind of thing happens in Australia. (As does this.)

Feeding the crocs.

Top Gun graduate.

An hour long video of the self-proclaimed "Capitole de Noel" here.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:24 PM

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