Clara got a nutcracker, lovely nutcracker....

 So earlier in the month, I saw, for the first time, The Nutcracker Suite.  It was on some ROKU channel, it was from the 90s, it was the New York Metropolitan Ballet and it had Macauley Culkin, of all people, as The Prince. 

I was bored and, frankly, less than impressed.   To be fair, I'm not into ballet AT ALL.  But I figured, this was a Christmas staple, all KINDS of people watch it and look forward to it each year, so there has to be something about it beyond just ballet. 

.....If there is, I couldn't find it.  I mean, the dancing was impressive, and there was a helluva lot of music I had heard before.  But it was....just ballet.   Not my thing. 

Well, that's one more thing I can cross off my bucket list. 

POLT