Hey, thanks for the link. I love you guys.

Valerie and Her Love of Live- er, Week of Wonders? Really? REALLY? I'm rather disappointed that a warmed-over slice of child pornography has been welcomed so openly into the modern canon.

It's been another wonderful Halloween season, David. Thanks for all your hard work. I know with the current economic hurlyburly and impending presidential race that horror movies seemed to some this year to be frivilous and beside the point... but let's not forget that Universal's classic monster canon crawled out of the roiling guts of the Great Depression. People need horror, and maybe in hard times more so than in prosperity and peace.

Many thanks, Richard, and of course, you're absolutely right. Still, this season - and I usually love Halloween! - has had me thinking again about the ways we receive movies and how volatile those ways are to shifting moods, varying contexts, even our physical condition. Anyway: Happy holidays!

I know with the current economic hurlyburly and impending presidential race that horror movies seemed to some this year to be frivilous and beside the point

I think some of us just didn't feel like celebrating much this year. I never think of horor films as "frivilous and beside the point," Richard.

And David, I'm glad I'm not the only one feeling a bit out of sorts at the moment. Hopefully next week we'll both feel more like celebrating. Thankfully I'm not completely hopeless yet. I bought a bottle of champagne that I hope to open Tuesday night!

Warmed over child pornography, Chelsea? Well, you could say the same about Lolita and Alice in Wonderland, and wait - maybe Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs while you're at it. Once you start bandying such unfounded accusations you may find it hard to stop.

And don't forget LEMORA, A CHILD'S TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL!