Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
I'm generally pretty grinchy about Christmas, mostly because I viscerally hate Christmas music with every fiber of my being, and it's piped into every public space for hundreds of miles in every direction. Hell, not just public spaces; even the bathrooms at work have Jingle Bell Rock bouncing off the walls from the day after Thanksgiving 'til sometime after New Years. Horrorshow, I tells you.
However, I do enjoy annually linking to my two favorite Christmas sites.
1. Christopher Hitchens - Bah Humbug
2. The Sun-Sentinel's gallery of kids completely losing their shit in Santa's lap.
Is having the one pants leg rolled up some kind of California gangster thing?
Posted by: apostropher at December 13, 2007 11:34 AMI think it is kind of a "street" thing, but in PK's case it's just because he rolled up his own pants that morning and isn't detail-oriented.
I think.
Posted by: bitchphd at December 13, 2007 11:57 AMPK's secret thug life revealed!
Did Santa pull on PK's incredibly impressive mane to see if it was real?
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at December 13, 2007 07:11 PMSo what's it gonna take to get Froz to UnfoggeDCon II: Unfoggeder?
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at December 14, 2007 12:18 AMThe little boy in the picture in 8 has fantastic pants.
Posted by: Brock Landers at December 14, 2007 12:43 AM7: Dear heavens, no. Anyway, it's obviously real. My bet is that Santa (I think it was the same guy last year) is some aging hippie surfer dude.
Posted by: bitchphd at December 14, 2007 01:48 AM6: As I long suspected - GB DOES exhibit tribal self-identification. Yes! ;)
Posted by: TokyoTom at December 14, 2007 06:46 AM11: Oh, I know it's obviously real, I was just reversing the old "pull on Santa's beard to see if it's real" trope.
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at December 14, 2007 01:59 PMMy wife insists on filling our house with an unending stream of Christmas carols from the day after Thanksgiving through the day after Christmas. Constant, relentless. She claims it's her favorite music and I should just suck it up and deal with it for the month. Which I do, but we're young yet. I'm not sure I can take 50 years of it.
Posted by: Brock Landers at December 14, 2007 05:02 PMShe claims it's her favorite music and I should just suck it up and deal with it for the month.
You and I are in the same boat, Brock. The very same boat. I'm this close to taking my chances with the sharks and swimming for it. It's driving me insane.
Posted by: apostropher at December 14, 2007 05:12 PMIt`s happening here too, apo. The Christmas music and commercial decorations are out by mid-November.
Posted by: TokyoTom at December 15, 2007 02:29 AMI just thought of something that might bring a little Yuletide cheer to apostropher at this dark time of year: XXXMas Carols!
For example:
A Wang in a Manger
Silver Balls
God Rest Ye Mary, Gentlemen
Whaddya say we all pull together in the True Spirit of the Season and see what we can come up with!
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at December 18, 2007 06:03 PMThat's the spirit, Clownae!
The Diddled Drummer Boy
I'll be Homo for Christmas
O Tan a Bum
O Little Starlet of Bethlehem
I'm Dreaming of a White Fist, Miss
Now people are going to be asking apo why he's got that ridiculous grin on his face while he's walking around listening to all that piped-in Christmas music.
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at December 19, 2007 08:23 AMI would assume that's a logistical/financial impossibility, given you have 3 kids now. But maybe, just maybe, Ganja Claus will put you on his "Good Girls and Boys" list.
Posted by: Mr. Sticky at December 19, 2007 01:25 PMI also think this would be a great dystopian Christmas movie: Soylent Night.
Final line: "The Eucharist is PEOPLE!"
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at December 20, 2007 07:50 PM