Esteban always laughs at my utter fascination with the holiday stop-action specials, like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the one with the Heat Miser. I'll even watch the miserable Little Drummer Boy special that I think only runs once a year on a public access channel in Nome, Alaska. I love them so much that high on my list of girl names (should we ever reproduce) is the name Clarice and also Fireball. I think it's the OCD quality that I admire so much about them, the absolute creative vision that is involved with moving these little puppets micromillimeters, snapping a picture, then moving a tiny bit more, snapping another picture, later, rinse, repeat.

The hottest man on the planet took a break from his job manning the Nutrition Data.com answer hotline and sent me this video and once again, I am enthralled. And kind of craving some technicolor spaghetti.