I'm not a Grinch, really. Well, maybe a little, but I'm getting better. It's probably that I was raised Jewish but not really yet didn't do Christmas so I felt left out of not one, but two cultures (Rambler's Dad is Jewish, Mom was a WASP now a Catholic).
But I digress(as usual). It is November 27 and tonight ABC is airing a A Charlie Brown Christmas. I love it, but isn't it a little too soon? Can't we at least wait until we get into the month of December before we start bombarding the airwaves, the sidewalks and our senses with Christmas? And I mean into the month, not 12:01 December 1.
Ironically, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is a plea to reign in the commercialization of the holiday. Now it is used as the unofficial kick off to a barrage of 30-second spots reminding us it's not about peace on earth and goodwill but new cars, video games and diamonds.
On Broadway last night the the tree hawkers were already setting up their wares. I like trees too, but not this early for crying out loud.
I know. Rambler, what's the big deal? December will be here soon enough, get into the spirit. Yes it will so why rush it? I pity the folks in Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts and everywhere else that from the day after Thanksgiving through December 26 are forced to listen to sappy holiday music all day long. I just hope they don't play all that stuff non-stop in post offices or we could have a real bloodbath on our hands.
I'm not anti-holiday, I'm anti-brass commercialism. I realize this battle was lost years ago. In fact, it was already lost when A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered in 1965. And yes, I know Charles Schulz was not above making a commercial buck off his product. I used to have one of those Snoopy Astronaut toys (and man do I wish I still had it).
I just have to vent and this is where I can do it. If you need me, I'll be in the pumpkin patch waiting for the Great Pumpkin and hoping my Sally Brown shows up.
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infuriating. every year, drives me crazy. gee, there's just no room clsoer to xmas for a show that doesnt actually suck? grrr!! ranted before here: http://xmastime.blogspot.com/2006/12/things-are-good-volwhatever-number-we.html
The day after Thanksgiving I noticed Tannenbaum adorning the top s of family trucksters.
I'm thinking - total brown fire trap by Christmas Eve.
Half the neighborhood was lit up by Monday. I'm with you, I wait until December 1 as the minimum start date. Oddly, I'm actually looking forward to the Christmastide this year.
Except for the joy-killer. One daughter (aka: The Money Pit) who actually had the audacity to (seriously) ask for a new car for Christmas, and then get upset when we looked at her with disgust. She just got a car - the one she wanted, VW Convertable Cabrio. WTF is this bizarre sense of entitlement?
Thankfully she's the only one who is other-worldly-greedy. Like, she cannot distinguish between reality TV and reality.
There is no sense of charity, goodwill toward men - nothing. Just ME ME ME....fake tan! fake nails! fake white teeth! fake hair! No sense of humor!
Extremely over-the-top. She actually had the nerve to ask me to buy her a bottle of Vodka for some frat party she and her "sisters" were going to. I'm like, "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that. Me, of all people, you ask to buy you booze? "All the other moms do it"
she tells me. For the love of Pete!
I DEMAND A MATERNITY TEST!
it was worse having to read the
dialog while trying to walk off thanksgiving. they just ruin it putting it on so early.
the best part was waiting...rats.
Angie get your slap hammer baby!!!!
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