The Literate Kitty

When November 1 rolls around each year, you can count on a couple of things. First, every store dramatically slashes the prices on their thematically-bagged candies (as though they’re channeling Michael Myers tracking down neighborhood teens in Halloween ).  Second—and more importantly, here—all of the streamers shift every Christmas-y movie or show to the top of their “trending titles” and “holiday picks” lists (or whatever other catchy phrases they're hoping will elicit clicks).  Once you remove the classics and perennial family-friendly fare, though, what’s left is an ever-growing yet somehow surprisingly-limited Santa’s bag of tricks… with more lumps of coal at the bottom than fabulous gems (no matter how pretty the outer packaging may appear in the promos). I know this … yet still find it impossible to resist at least a couple new holiday offerings each year. [Some people tell Alexa to play Christmas music nonstop; me, I watch a few rom-coms. To each their own, right...