The Christmas Experiment 2017 Hours 5&6: A Very Chicago Christmas

Viewing Thoughts: It's another variety time. Let's check this out. Oddly enough, it's all about Chicago this time.

Making a New American Nutcracker: I don't want enough PBS on this. This particular special is about the production of The Nutcracker and it's making. I have never seen a production of The Nutcracker so I can't really say a ton about it.

The interesting touch of this is that this production is in Chicago and it has been reimagined as taking place during the Chicago World's Fair. It's elaborate, beautiful, and interesting.I actually kind of want to see this production now. I don't even really know how to appreciate ballet and I'm intrigued.

One reason why we need PBS is to make this kind of stuff interesting for everyone. I would never considered going to see The Nutcracker up until an hour ago and yet, here we are. PBS is less beholden to the interests of corporations, PBS gives us art and culture when parts of the world look away. PBS is awesome!

The Magnificent Mile Light Festival: Every year, there are a hand full of syndicated programs that are shipped out just to fill the afternoon of weekends leading up to Christmas. That's what this is. It's a parade... I think? I dunno, there's a musical performance for a Jimmy Buffet Jukebox Musical and that loses me.

The weird thing? It's highly an ad for Disney. I feel like Disney is a thing that I can't get away from today. Ummm, there might be reasons for me to care highly about that in the coming year but... anyway, parades. This one is boring and one big ad for Disney. And ABC. And American Idol.

Also, Taylor Hick is still alive. Umm.... good for him?

Non-Viewing Thoughts: Chicago has seriously become one of my favorite cities over the last few years. If I had anything resembling financial stability, I'd totally go.

Late Christmas Ideas: Tickets to see a production of The Nutcracker would be nice. It's just... I feel like I should see it at least once.

Notable Commercials: I love that that one Hershey Kiss ad is still running after all these years.
 
Tally
Coke Zeroes Left: 18 Cans
Amps Left: 2 Cans
Coffee Left: 2 Bottles
Pumpkin Pie Left: Whole Pie, currently unbaked
Current Sanity Level(1 being dinner with Seth Rogen, 10 being dinner for Seth Rogen): 4
Puzzle Progress: The problem with doing a puzzle by yourself is that you only have one set of eyes. So, I've been looking for eyes.