If you haven't watched Holiday Inn, it's worth it just to see this, Fred Astaire's way-awesome firecracker dance.

It also incidentally has this bit, which came to be somewhat well known.

At the same time... it also has the Abraham song. I'm not one for using current practice to evaluate past practice, as current practice will doubtlessly turn out to be barbaric and naive in ways I can't even imagine, in which case it's probably not the most solid ground to lob analytic javelins from. Still, it's an... uncomfortable... bit of footage.

So then I watch this bit of rad, also from Holiday Inn, and things get better again.

Well, Aught Decade, you've done your bit. David Bowie released the awesome Heathen album during you and, well, that pretty much cancels out all the bad stuff as I figure it. See you all in the teens!

- Count Dolby von Luckner