A Spirited 2022 Christmas ... and Twitter?!🎄🎁

Ryan Reynolds as CLINT Briggs:-)

Looks funny when you spell CLINT with capitals?

I watched the more or less 2-hour SNL skit of a Christmas movie on Apple TV starring Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell called 'Spirited', which is another spin on Charles Dickens' story 'A Christmas Carol' where the Reynolds' CEO character is the modern-day Scrooge, while Ferrell plays the old Scrooge/Ghost of Christmas present[s;-] trying to show the modern CEO the era of his ways.

A Very Crabby Christmas (Island) and a New Scrooge for 2022?🦀🎄

The social network’s staff has shrunk to a fraction of
its size since Elon Musk took over at the end of October

But the funniest thing in the movie to me was when the Ghost of Christmas Past takes Ryan's CEO character back to when Twitter was taking off in the last century and he was advising his then friends how Twitter was the next big thing heading their way to change the way they communicate with the world:-)

Screenshot from Apple TV's 2022 'Spirited':-)

But I'll bet the makers of 'Spirited' didn't see old Scrooge Elon Musk taking over the iconic company and sacking so many staff before Christmas 2022?-)

Blue Christmas?🎄🐦

Twitter may cut more of its shrinking
workforce as early as Monday?

Screenshot from Apple TV's 2022 'Spirited':-)

Wow, what co[s]mic timing?-)

Screenshot from Apple TV's 2022 'Spirited':-)

Ryan Reynolds

It's nearly time to put the Christmas tree up too, you old CLINT:-)

Bedtime History Podcast:
Inspirational Stories for Kids and Families

This Buzzfeed Made My Day :-)

I've been listening to free audio books/podcasts and watching movies/TV shows based on Charles Dickens' stories, so that I don't have to sit down and actually read the books to get what the basic storyline is.

This movie turns 100 in 2022

I have to say that having some Jewish family history myself that listening to 'Oliver Twist' being read in its original form grates on my nerves when I hear over and over again Fagin being referred to as "The Jew" pretty much all the time his character is mentioned in the story.

That aside, the story is rather interesting to consider the times and living conditions it was set in.

Dickens' Women: with
Miriam Margolyes

From '1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die' 

I'm listening to 'David Copperfield' now being read on an Apple Podcast and have read that this story is a disguised autobiography by Dickens, which I find a more interesting story than OT.
But out of the books I have listened to of Dickens, I still like 'A Christmas Carol' the best, so far.
Oliver Twist: No More Books to Read Please, Sir?🍲📚😋