I pardoned a turkey this year too. I pardoned it from the icy prison of the grocery store freezer section, and I'm freeing it today into my gaping maw.

The movie Train Dreams, based on a novella by the inimitable Denis Johnson, is savagely beautiful. Joel Edgerton is amazing. This movie is about life and death, love and loss. And the indifference of nature towards us. I just bawled watching this. But I loved it.