"The Mist" * (out of four): In the worst film about a weather pattern since 2005's "The Fog", Stephen King go-to adapter Frank Darabont launches this dreadful misfire that works as neither horror nor social commentary.

There’s something very wrong in “The Mist”. And I don’t mean the wholly unscary CGI beasties that pop out exactly as expected to gobble up the supporting cast of Frank Darabont’s horrendous adaptation of Stephen King’s novella. No, I’m referring more to the stilted pacing, sub-B-level acting and unintentional-laugh-filled script. How could Mr. Darabont – Hollywood’s Stephen King go-to adapter after 1994’s fan favorite, “The Shawshank Redemption”, and 1999’s schmaltz-fest, “The Green Mile” – have gone so amiss? Well, let’s start from the top.

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Ladies and gentlemen...a Mr Creosote clip. (it's waafer thin)

Please can someone explain the excitement, the draw of Black Friday morning shopping? I just don't get it.

(Thanks, Bill!)

Sure, I'd like to help hungry people in third world countries. But first, I need to work on my vocabulary...what am I going to do? Never fear, oh caring, yet illiterate ones...now there's FreeRice.com, guaranteed to solve both problems. For every vocabulary question you get right, FreeRice donate ten grains of rice to hungry families.

Yup, I don't get it either...but it couldn't hurt.

It's one of my favorite Christmas memories....the day the holiday catalogs came in the mail. We'd get the Sears Wish Book and the Montgomery Wards (man, I'm old) Christmas Catalog, and I'd go through them with my mom to pick out what I wanted. Well, a site called WishBookWeb has scanned the pages from a few of these catalogs to help relive those days. Remember vibrating football games? The Electro-Shot shooting gallery? Mego action figures? And that 's just the beginning...a very cool site to check out.