Christmas Is Just Nine Months Away and Other Ramblings

• "Smoot Hawley" sounds like the name of some guy my Dad grew up with back in Tonica, Illinois.
• I think life in an Australian electrolysis parlor would make a great setting for a sitcom, if only to see how many times and in how many ways the producers would find to use the words "down under". 
• Remember when Smoot Hawley and Pinky Shears put the cannon in the park up on top of the roof of the high school?  
• I was surprised at how much the late Natasha Richardson looks like Anne Meara in some of her photos.  
• Or the time Smoot got drunk and puked in the tuba? 
• It may be too late for a Christmas Baby, but maybe not for a tax deduction. 
• And remember when Smoot dipped all those rabbits in luminous paint and set them loose near the A-Bomb Research Facility?