I recently read a (news article) about some guy that stirred the wrath of all his neighbors with his radically new christmas lawn decoration - Santa Crucified on the Cross. 69yo Jimmy Wright claimed the 'artwork' was intended to express his sentiments
'Santa represents frivolous consumption. That's all he is. He shot Jesus right out of the saddle. He's the focus of Christmas.'
Personally, I don't make the connection but I do find it a bit humorous and I can certainly relate to his frustrations with society's 'Christmas spirit'.
All that the news can talk about is how Christmas spending is an economic indicator. This 'indicator' seems to be particularly difficult to read this year with the inception of The Gift Card. Yes, my friends, Christmas is now all about the Gift Card. If I were to write a letter to Santa this year, it would say:
Dear Santa,
Thank You for the Gift Cards this year.
Sincerely,
p0nk
p.s. The nearest Home Depot is 4 hours away, you fat lazy prick.
The days following Christmas (Boxing Day for you Canuckians) used to be about returning all the useless and broken crap, and the seven Dale Earnardt Jr wall clocks. Now it's about spending those damn gift cards.
People, it's one thing if you didn't want to take the time to buy something thoughtful for me, but why in the hell are you sending me to some god-forsaken hell-hole to try to find something i could use? Thanks a fucking lot! Cash may be considered tacky, but personally I would consider it a hell of a lot more thoughtful than forcing me to go to Ross Dress For Less to buy basketball shoes for one of the little p0nks.
...and speaking of the little p0nks, it's a damn good thing that i've got a week's vacation right now because between the Christmas hunting and putting together/repairing broken kids' toys, i'm pretty much busy 24/7.
Die Santa, you promoter of frivolous consumption!
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I read Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago about 15 years ago. Since then I have been fascinated with Russian culture and history. I've now read most of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and just finished Bulgakov's Master & Margarita.
I also fancy myself a bit of a Russian Orthdox after studying much of the Desert Fathers and the Philokalia.
Thanks for stopping by!
ponk, thounds like you're pretty thmart.
no ma'am. far from it. Smart people don't make their lives so fucked up as i have.
Hey... I don't know much about Russian Literature... but I can sure find my way around a bottle of vodka!
pinky, your Russian culture sounds a lot more interesting than mine.
pOnk... will you read Russian literature to me? But, you must wear one of those big fur hats while you do it.
Thank you.
p0nk-
Use your gift cards online so you can be as lazy as the person who gave them to you!! Well, that is what I am going to do anyway....
Sometimes gift cards are nice though, like for breaking into your boyfriends house when you don't want to ruin your visa.
Happy New Beers, p0nk.
pinky, i don't think the Kama Sutra is Russian, but sure.
D, leave it to the smart girl to come up with creative uses for gift cards. My issue with using them online is that for a $20 card, i'm going to spend $10 on an item and $10 on shipping.
Twzzlrgirl - If you get this, they are all over a The Angry Ferret Jones' place!
http://www.xanga.com/Angry_Ferret_Jones
Hey pOnk, Twzzlrgirl is an old friend. If she happens by here again, send her Ferrets way!
wally, i suspect she got here via ferret. i remember somebody from the L.O.A.F. having a link to her.
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