Ralphie Rocks!
TBS set records with this year's "A Christmas Story" Marathon:
The marathon scored its best-ever average delivery in total viewers (2.8 million) as well as in such key demos as adults 18-34 (775,000), adults 18-49 (1.6 million) and adults 25-54 (1.5 million), according to Nielsen Media Research.
For the marathon's entire 24-hour run, TBS ranked as the No. 1 ad-supported cable network in 18-34, 18-49, 25-54 and total viewers. (Ad-supported networks include most basic cable outlets with a few exceptions like Disney Channel.)
During the marathon, the most-watched airing of "Christmas" in total viewers was the first telecast (8 p.m. December 24), which averaged 4.4 million viewers. The 10 p.m. telecast that followed was the most-watched among 18-34 (1.2 million), 18-49 (2.2 million) and 25-54 (2.1 million).
The 10 p.m. showing also beat all broadcast programming on Christmas Eve (8 p.m.-midnight) in the 18-34 demo.
I watched part of at least 5 of the 12 showings. How about you?
When you're done with those presents...
Tony over at A Red Mind in a Blue State has some interesting thoughts on the state of the economy and how it's reported:
Will it stop? The unending media hysteria about the economy?
The story this morning is that Internet plus brick and mortar sales are up 2.4% this season.
Given the incessant drumbeat of bad economy, bad economy, bad economy-- I thought the tag on the story would be, hey, not bad!
But no. For whatever reason-- incompetence, latent Bush-bashing, the inability to ever report good news-- the headlines were mostly negative. Sluggish. Poor. Disappointing.
How could 2.4% growth in the "teeth" of this mortgage meltdown, etc. be deemed disappointing?
Read the rest, including some interesting facts about gift card sales.
I think Tony has a point. Sales ARE up. Doesn't that mean people have the $$ to spend? Or does it mean that they'd rather sink farther into their credit bills so the kids can have the Wii and the computer and the new iPod?
Either way, it means they plan on having a place to keep what they bought, so people must be somewhat more than negative-feeling about the whole housing/mortgage/ interest rate business.
Even more interesting was the item about gift card sales. I wonder what the total figures would be with those included. Especially as sales of gift cards increased ALONG with the direct sales increases reported.
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I think it's all a crock.
I question whether they're taking online sales into account. I did more shopping online this year than I ever have before. Also, I used zero credit cards. I'm so proud of us for only using actual money on our purchases. And we had more presents under our tree this year than ever in our 8 Christmases together. We dropped a ton of money this year.
That's true about the gift cards, too.
Posted by: wRitErsbLock at December 27, 2007 07:15 AM (+MvHD)
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We had a smaller ($$ amount spent) Christmas this year than last, but that wasn't necessarily a bad thing. I do know people who don't pay Dec's bills just so they can spend on Christmas goodies!
Posted by: Michele at December 27, 2007 03:53 PM (NDJaM)
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Thanks for the shout-out! It should be interesting to see the final numbers--tho I'll wager if they're good, they'll be buried! (Glad to hear your Mother is dong well)
Have a safe, happy & healthy New Year!!
Posted by: Tony Iovino at December 27, 2007 08:32 PM (85Zmb)
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From what my Hubby says - gift cards don't "count" bottom line/economy wise until they are used. And generally people spend 20-30% more than the dollar amount of the gift card.
Retailers love 'em... (I do too!)
Posted by: Richmond at December 28, 2007 04:41 PM (+/oj/)
So WTF have I been up to?
I haven't been ignoring y'all on purpose. Really. I've just been super busy. Mom is doing very well, walking around on short excursions with just her cane and doing therapy twice a week. Staples SHOULD come out at her DR appointment tomorrow, which is a HUGE milestone because that means she can shower without wrapping her leg in plastic and tape....
Santa Claus was DAMN good to me this year. I didn't think I was THAT good a girl.... I got a Kitchenaid mixer. It's PURPLE! and n AWESOME digital photo keychain. Hubby got a telescope (for school, actually) and PS2 games. And a bad case of the Flu. Dad had it first, then me, then hub. Ugh.
Puppies also scored. New leashes and food dishes and beds. Princess got lots of dog treats, too.
This is just the sweetest Christmas story ever!
Merry Christmas and Happy Anniversary to Mr. and Mrs. Southey!
Some people get surprise birthday parties. Ilda Ruth Southey gets surprise weddings.
Twice in her life Southey was surprised with a wedding ceremony on Christmas Eve, both times to Francis Southey.
Her future husband planned their original wedding for Christmas Eve 1942 while he was stationed in Sherman, Texas, awaiting orders to ship off to Europe during World War II.
"I didn't know I was getting married, I just went to spend Christmas with him and I got down there, he had the wedding all arranged," said Ruth Southey, 85, who lives at the Waterford Senior Living facility.
On Monday, staff at the senior facility arranged the same surprise for their 65th anniversary. The couple renewed their vows in front of three generations of teary-eyed family and friends.
At the ceremony, Francis Southey, 90, reminisced about how the first wedding almost didn't happen.
"She said that she wasn't going to marry me," he said. "She said she didn't wanted to get married. She wanted a wedding, a big wedding, but I didn't have any money."
I wish them many more years of health and happiness!
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Schwartzenegger insists the victims of the 2007 Southern California firestorm temporarily residing at Jack Murphy Stadium are happy.
First he calls Tonight Show host Jay Leno an "idiot". Then he drops this bomb.
If it were Gray Davis the gods would have their media attack him mercilessly for these mistakes. Together they may be enough to cost any other politician his career. But not Arnold Schwartzenegger.
They say he makes comments like these all the time, clues which are all buried. And it's because they have BIG plans for him::::He is a tool who will be used to accomplish historical evil for the gods.
They say there is a strange sense of "unease" at the State Capital, like he doesn't belong there. And he doesn't. He is not American. Sadly this is an issue that is too readily discounted:::::
He is not from the United States. His loyalties lie with a country that was the enemy of the United States a mere 65 years ago.
Just as we witnessed with Clinton in 1992 expect blacks to register and vote en masse for Schwartzenegger as well, a clue and a red flag.
Just as we haven't seen any more of that "Everybody is happy." idiocy from the Preditor so do we no longer hear anything of the possibility a firefighter started one if not more of these SoCal fires, buried forever.
Weight training (promoted in every prison system in the country), promotion of pharmeceuticals (steroids), desensitizing "guy flicks" all prove the name "Preditor" is warranted.
Less than 24 hours passed after a traffic accident on I-5 before Schwartzenegger declared a state of emergency, but it took over 2 full days before he did the same for the San Francisco Bay envionmental disaster incident. The gods are offering a clue.
The gods love reverse positioning, and this Austrian genocide issue is an OUTSTANDING example:::
There is symbolism between the two:::Hitler was an Austian-born leader of a foreign nation.
It appears as if Hitler is a monster. When Schwartzenegger does his thing he will appear as a hero, an enforcer of decency. Quite the opposite is true, ironically.
Monsters like Al Capone, violent gangsters from the 20s and 30s thought they were going up. Instead they were routed into the Nazi death camps::::This Austrian genocide event disposed of these monsters.
Schwartzenegger's genocide event will dispose of society's VICTIMS, people who are the way they are (abusive, abrasive, violent, criminal) BECAUSE of their disfavor.
People will say the Italians were pushed into it too, but I'd like to remind you black evidence is contradictory (crack, AIDS, etc). Italian evidence REINFORCES corruption (1906, ). Based on these clues it is safe to say the Italians are more disfavored than Africans.
Ironically, Hiter is the enforcer of decency. Schwartzenegger is the monster. But the movies already prove Schwartzenegger is a promoter of indencency, so when his genocide event happens there will be no secrets.
This exposure from me can change their script. Or, more appropriately said, alter the Manifest Destiny's senarios to fall in line with the god's script.
That means Schwartzenegger was never going to be used. But I think the evidence we have suggests he in fact IS the one foreshadowed with the Hitler figure, his genocide event foreshadowed with the Holocaust.
And, ironically, blacks will show up at the polls to vote for their own deaths.
There is one geographic clue I have not addressed in years:::Uranus, a planet tilted 90 degrees on its axis. I have stated in years past that I think this is a clue offered by the gods suggesting the fate of planet Earth, that tectonic plate subduction would be the method of disposal:::EarthÂ’s axis will shift breaking continental plates free and initiating mass subduction.
Undesirables will either perish in the government marijuana erradication program "gone awry" or be the recipients of reparations granted by the US government because of it.
I believe the New Testiment battle of the Anti-Christ and the Second Coming of Christ will ocurr in subsequent years SPECIFICALLY because these people will be distracted with the money during the event.
When the Earth's axis shifts people will be cast into outer space with gold cards in hand.
I think this was foreshadowed on an episode of the Simpsons where Homer and Bart are on the disfavored ship and eject, only to experience a sense of euphoria, expand then explode in the vacuum of space.
Vienna was the center of the music world for a reason.
Any middle age person today remembers the excitement surrounding classical music in the mid-20th century.
Classical music was "in play". Expect the same "magic" was employed back then as well.
Motzart's ugly for a reason. Similarly, Schwartzenegger's appearance is suspect as well.
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Posted by: Brokeback Mountain says you understand:::Fuck off god. at January 01, 2008 08:46 PM (3Lwci)
Mom is doing great! Really great! The therapist was really impressed with her today!
Mom came home Sunday afternoon, and ever since it's been a whirlwind of therapy, continuous passive motion machine, walker exercises, and puppies.
I did manage to pay my bills and get all of the Christmas cards done. If I have your address, you should be getting one....
On tap for this afternoon, Round 2 of puppy booster shots at the Vet and sorting all the Christmas presents that need to be wrapped. And then maybe some Christmas decorating, I hope.
In other news, it's pouring like the proverbial SOB here in Fresburg, which I love, especially at the holidays. There should be a TON of snow in the mountains. YAY!
Posted by: wRitErsbLock at December 18, 2007 06:12 PM (0Pi1o)
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Yay! Glad your mom is doing so well - that's great news!
I haven't even started my cards yet... I think it's a bad year for cards, but I will get them out this week if it kills me. (it might - heh).
Snow in the mountains - do you go there for Christmas? Or is it that you have a great view of them from where you are? (can you tell I'm not familiar with California *grin*)
Posted by: Teresa at December 19, 2007 08:41 AM (rVIv9)
Posted by: Sarah at December 19, 2007 09:03 AM (vLcEk)
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I wish *I* had Christmas cards done... Maybe this weekend...
Posted by: Richmond at December 19, 2007 04:09 PM (WUpdd)
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ONCE AGAIN I totally suck in the Christmas Card department. *sigh*
I'm sending my auntie to your website. She really needs new knees but is ascairt (and I don't blame her) but maybe if I can show her how great your mom is doing (and YAY! BTW) then maybe this will help allay some fears.
Posted by: Margi at December 21, 2007 01:00 AM (KF0g8)
Thanks to everyone for chiming in (especially wRitErsbLock for posting the name)! It was a really hard decision to make, since it's a little close to our resident cat's name (Arthur), but sometimes that's just the way it goes.
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Yay! I'd like to thank my parents for birthing me, my parents for letting me survive childhood, my teachers who taught me to read, my friend D who introduced me to Harry Potter, and the benevolent deity of my choice for whatever powers I choose to believe in.
Posted by: wRitErsbLock at December 15, 2007 06:23 AM (0Pi1o)
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Use all three parts of his name. You can call him Alastor when he's being good, Mad Eye when he's being sassy and Moody when he's just shredded your last pair of good nylons.
Posted by: Darby Shaw at December 15, 2007 11:28 AM (fwmWr)
Good News!
I just talked to my Dad and everything with Mom's surgery went well. She is now officially the Bionic Woman, with two titanium knees. The Dr. was very pleased and last I heard Mom was in recovery and Dad was waiting to be able to go see her.
A request
I tried to post this last night, but MuNu was having a moment...
Friend, frequent commenter, and occasional guest poster ZTZCheese and her hubby got a new kitty!
He's cute and smart and friendly, and he needs a name. However, kitty didn't seem too taken with any of the names we've tried so far, so she asked me to ask YOU to help us come up with suggestions.
He seems like a "people name" cat, rather than a "cat name" cat, but a clever cat name might suit.
He's a little put off by the small silver flashy-thing in his face in this shot:
Yes, he is one-eyed, he's not winking. But he sure could be.
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He IS adorable. I love kitties.
Jack?
"As in one-eyed jacks are wild."
LOLLL!
Posted by: Margi at December 12, 2007 12:07 PM (KF0g8)
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If it were a girl, Meredith or Lexi would be awesome (Gray, Grey's Anatomy...) But since he's a boy and probably doesn't want a girl's name, how about:
Nimbus. Gray like a nimbus cloud, and extra nifty since it's the name of Harry's broomstick.
Or...Clarence. From It's a Wonderful Life, since it's Christmas time!
Or...Suess. In honor of the Grinch, of course. My holiday hero. =)
Posted by: Amanda at December 12, 2007 12:39 PM (5PUVj)
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are they potter fans?
mad-eye mooney would be appropriate
Posted by: wRitErsbLock at December 12, 2007 02:27 PM (+MvHD)
Over the last few days I've been thinking a lot about the amazing bumper sticker of awesomeness and how we parent our children. When I say "parent our children", I mean in the general sense, that is, how ADULTS guide and direct children towards what's right and instill in them a sense of right and wrong. Not just their parents, biological or otherwise, but grandparents, aunts and uncles, teachers, mentors, and friends. Hillary said that it takes a village to raise a child, and although her application of that message was far more socialist than I agree with, her point is well-taken. Children grow up surrounded by adults. ALL of those adults have something to do with raising them, even just reinforcing proper behavior.
I've often heard it said (and I believe it) that parenting is an act of will. As a parent, you are the boss, and what the kids want is secondary. It seems to me that a hell of a lot of ADULTS are abdicating this responsibility because they just don't want to "hurt the kid's feelings" or they'd rather let someone else be the bad guy.
See, here's the thing, and this is what has come up over and over and over in conversations about the bumper sticker, good kids are NOT kids who never think of doing bad things. Good kids are not kids who say "it's wrong, so I won't do it." At least not all the time. Good kids are good simply because they know what will happen to them if they get caught doing what they want to do that their parents disapprove of. They have rules and boundaries and consequences. Consistent, very negative consequences. I was one of those goody-two-shoes kids. But sure as hell NOT because it was wrong to do bad things. Oh hells no. I was terrified of what my parents would do if they caught me.
Good parents make it possible for their kids to reach the stage in their life, where as adults, they can recognize all of their right and wrong steps in the past and use that knowledge to "parent" other children: their own, nieces and nephews, students, mentees, etc.
I've gone down the road before about no consequences for kids and how THAT turns out. But I'll sum up. Kids who don't understand that their actions have consequences CAN NOT succeed in life. They don't turn in homework, but they expect an A. They can't show up to work on time, but they'll sue you for firing them. They expect hand up after hand up and if they don't get one, it's YOUR fault. Mom and Dad fix everything, from a bad grade to a parking ticket to getting kicked out of college because of academic dishonesty. Kids who don't understand that actions have consequences are precisely the ones who will take a gun and try to make their own.
It's a simple principal of Psychology: Associative Learning. If I get zapped every time I press the red button, pretty soon I'll learn not to touch it any more. It's not just a fancy trick, either. This is how the mammalian brain is wired. We learn by experience, both positively and negatively.
Which brings me to a recent experience. I was involved with a community outreach program sponsored by our school a few weeks back. Two groups of high school students were assigned to be helpers to the college students and faculty involved with the program. One group of kids was from a high-achieving science-related magnet school. The other was from a "cultural" charter school. The difference between the two groups was remarkable, and not surprisingly, correlated with the expectations of the adults around them AND the consequences of their actions.
The "magnet" kids were friendly and polite, they pitched in to clean up without being asked. They were creative and helpful and spoke respectfully to each other and to us.
The charter kids were (with a few exceptions) just the opposite. They were loud and lazy, they yelled at each other and spent their time making messes and trying to break things rather than helping out, and when faced directly with consequences, they ignored requests to sit down and/or be quiet from their teachers and principal. Which, I later understood, because the threatened consequences never materialized.
What you don't know is that these kids all come from the same background: ethnically diverse, lower-middle-class and underprivileged homes. They all live in the same neighborhoods, have the same kinds of "stereotypical" families. What's different about them is the expectation that positive and negative behavior each have their own set of consequences. It couldn't be more striking.
So yeah, it's not about the damn guns. It's about shitty adults who think "kid gloves" means "use with children" instead of "made from baby goats".
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EXCELLENT POST! Yeah, I just yelled out loud 'excellent post'.
Posted by: pam at December 10, 2007 12:42 PM (l6NIn)
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Yeah, apparently most people don't know what "kid gloves" means anymore. Even my husband just learned, when my mom had hers from when she was younger out to look at them. I think he just pictured kid-sized boxing gloves with extra padding or something.
But you're 100% right. I could see it from watching the people i was in school with -- especially college. The kids who were pre-med (cough) and just whined themselves to better grades. I saw a lot of it in the undergrads at JHU, too. Um, not to pick on pre-meds. Or doctors. It's just the people I found were around me who did it most!
Posted by: silvermine at December 10, 2007 01:07 PM (4gdyI)
3Warning: disjointed thoughts ahead!
Disjointed? Beg to differ, dear. Very nicely done, and I say that as the father of two wonderful adult children.
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As someone who works with kids in a certain capacity, but does not have kids of her own, I have to admit I sometimes take a bit of issue with the "it takes a village" mentality.
An example: some of the kids in my youth group are whispering in church. I specifically DO NOT sit with them (they sit near their parents) because I have other duties during the course of church and I feel that, if their parents are there, it is not my job to "parent" them. But then someone comes up to me after church..."Those darn kids where WHISPERING again. Can you not DO something?"
No. When I go to church, I go to worship. I do not go to be the parent, when the parents who are there choose not to. I feel it would be overstepping my bounds to sit behind the kids and knock their heads together...er, hush them...when they are whispering.
But, because I'm the Youth Leader, because these individuals know me (and don't necessarily know the kids' parents), and because they know I won't lash back at them, they come to me and make me feel guilty for not being Mama Hen 100% of the time.
The lives of those of us who work with students (either little-kid, teenaged, or college-aged) would be SO much easier if parents just took on the responsibilities they are supposed to, and don't let their kids run wild, and expect someone else will be the "bad guy" with the discipline.
I've come so close to resigning as youth director BECAUSE it seems that every misbehavior of the kids is somehow my fault, that I could stop it if I really wanted to...even if the parents are sitting right there, oblivious.
Posted by: ricki at December 11, 2007 10:04 AM (O5SYw)
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For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. I press a key, a letter appears on the screen.
At the age of 13, my parents punished me for something I did for the last time. It made an impression. I don't remember what I did wrong, but it must have been bad, and the consequences fit the offense. The punishment, a few licks from my fathers FRATERNITY PLEDGE PADDLE. Nothing excessive, but enough to make a deep and lasting impression on me to never ever do what I had done again. And I never gave them a reason to punish me again.
Another highly effective consequence I received was "wash your mouth out with soap." At the age of 8 or 9, I cussed at a video game, while my mother was in the other room. She was into the room I was in in a flash, had me by the hand, and into the bathroom for a mouthful of softsoap. I took profanity out of my vocabulary for a long time after that (now I do use it sometimes, as a stress reliever, much better than losing my temper).
From my perspective, it comes down to making sure that when a child does something they know is wrong, the consequences should make a deep and lasting impression on their mind, such that when the situation arises again, they have a moment of pause to think, "wait a second, if I do this, it is going to make my life really SUCK afterwards."
Posted by: Petey at December 12, 2007 09:01 AM (tmnSV)
Posted by: wRitErsbLock at December 12, 2007 02:30 PM (+MvHD)
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It doesn't take a village, it takes a boot-camp.
Adults who in their moral vanity busily impress themselves with their own sensitivity and broadmindedness do no service to kids - and produce poor, nonperforming results.
Posted by: DirtCrashr at December 12, 2007 04:31 PM (VNM5w)
Among the drunks....
I'm guessing this ranking has everything to do with a certain blogger moving to Fresno......
The list below ranks the cities from most dangerously drunk to least dangerously drunk.
Most Dangerously Drunk
100. Denver, CO F
99. Anchorage, AK F
98. Colorado Springs, CO F
97. Omaha, NE F
96. Fargo, ND F
95. San Antonio, TX F
94. Austin, TX F
93. Fresno, CA F
92. Lubbock, TX F
91. Milwaukee, WI F
90. El Paso, TX F
In other highlights, Washington DC comes in at 88, Los Angeles at 65, Las Vegas surprisingly near the middle at 47, and the LEAST dangerously drunk cities are (below the jump!) more...
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I was dangerously drunk in El Paso once.
A random Mexican was threatening me, trying to get me to go to Juarez with him.
Posted by: Aaron at December 10, 2007 02:43 PM (x57wb)
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Apparently, New Orleans didn't qualify as a city. I've been there enough to know that THAT is not a dangerously drunken city, its a continuously drunken city.
Posted by: Jay at December 11, 2007 08:40 PM (B28PS)
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Where I live I had a local cop tell me he's never seen so many drunks. This, in a town of 20,000 ...and he's from Cleveland.
Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at December 12, 2007 03:52 PM (8F+iI)
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I've been dangerously drunk for years. Milwaukee surprises me, I thought it would have been higher.
Posted by: Contagion at December 12, 2007 05:26 PM (QQZMi)
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The rankings are based on arrests and accidents.
Milwaukee's placement must have something to do with the fact that we're functional drunks.
Posted by: Aaron at December 12, 2007 08:10 PM (SbW5B)
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Yay! I got a B+!!! I think I will celebrate with a glass of wine... : )
Posted by: Richmond at December 13, 2007 01:35 PM (df2Db)
I Still BelieveThis gets better every year. Santa Claus IS real. And if you are patient enough, and believe enough, he brings the presents our hearts desire most.
After spending an entire day either in a hot and stuffy conference room full of angry, yelling, exasperated voices, or on London transport, I took a very long journey home and finally made it home at 8:30 at night. Which meant, at the end of the day, that I had spent a whopping 6 hours in transit and 7 hours straight in meetings, stopping only to exercise my bladder's rights and to scarf down a thoroughly unsatisfactory baked potato, and that I got home a shattered shell of a human being.
But all that time in transit allowed for something that I needed-a little thinking time. I needed some time to sit down and think about why it is that I was missing the holidays so badly, why it was that the baubles and bangles weren't getting into my heart, why the lights reflected in disjointed pools from my disbelieving eyes. This (for me) has nothing to do with religion and I don't want to get into that aspect with this post, I'm simply talking about the spirit of hope and laughter that the holidays imbue you with. I thought about why it was that I was unable to project myself into my favorite Christmas activities-watching Scrooged, A Miracle on 34th Street, and the old Burl Ives' steadies Rudolph and Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Why couldn't I listen to the whole John Denver and the Muppets Christmas CD? What was happening?
And then it hit me as fast as it hit Susan in A Miracle on 34th Street (not the old one, the newer one with the doe-eyes Elizabeth Perkins and the new lisping Susan who is so damn cute it made my ovaries throb). I realized with a slight smile and a shake of the head why it was that I no longer felt so light and joyous about Christmas. In one moment, a smile spread on my face and I started to laugh (which I was on a crowded train at the time, so at least the guy moved away from me, lest I have something contagious).
The reason I felt so lost was that I didn't believe in Santa Claus anymore.
I had outgrown him and joined the race of jaded adults too afraid to let themselves confess that there might be something just a little bit bigger to life than they would be willing to admit.
Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Sinterklaas, the Hannukah Armadillo. Why had we forgotten them? Why have they become symbols that are reserved only for the kids, for the young, for the little people that are still chock-full of innocence, of hope, that the world really will reward you if you've been good and kind to Mommy and Daddy, that there is someone looking out for you and checking a list to make sure that you are going to get what it is that your little heart so badly needs?
I need to feel like there is a fat man in a red suit who is out there who exists purely to make the hearts of other people lighter. I need to know that the dreams that the children go to bed with on Christmas Eve are not wasted dreams, that the candy cane visions and sugarplum dreams go into a melting pot of something bigger, something that will bind and wrap up the children in little invisible force-fields of optimism as they grow up. I need to feel like there's someone who cares so much about what it is that will make us happy that he's keeping a list, checking it twice, giving me a reason to not be naughty, just nice.
Read the rest, and take the spirit of the season back into your life, just like Santa reminds us to. Or maybe the Hanukkah Armadillo.
Posted by: wRitErsbLock at December 10, 2007 06:38 AM (+MvHD)
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For somebody *else* to volunteer to do the farookin' church newsletter...
I am a firm believer in Mr. Claus... ; )
Posted by: Richmond at December 10, 2007 08:21 AM (U0sKl)
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Aiiie. Reminds me of my old job. I think people deserve to not have their souls crushed every day -- not just at the holidays.
That's why I quit my soul-killing job.
Posted by: silvermine at December 10, 2007 11:27 AM (4gdyI)
Talk about your Airport Park-N-Ride!
In the 80's and 90's we had Limousine Liberals. Now we have Gulfstream Greenies:
Tempo Interaktif reports that Angkasa Pura - the management of Bali's Ngurah Rai International Airport are concerned that the large number of additional private charter flights expected in Bali during the UN Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC) December 3-15, 2007, will exceed the carrying capacity of apron areas. To meet the added demand for aircraft storage officials are allocating "parking space" at other airports in Indonesia.
The operational manager for Bali's Airport, Azjar Effendi, says his 3 parking areas can only accommodate 15 planes, which means that some of the jets used by VIP delegations will only be allowed to disembark and embark their planes in Bali with parking provided at airports in Surabaya, Lombok, Jakarta and Makassar.--emphasis mine, Ed.
I thought they were meeting to try to COMBAT Global Warming. Hypocrites.
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Oh, I thought it was to combat the USA... *grin*
I wonder who is of the "lower tier" and has to park their plane at a different airport. Now THAT would be some fun times - showing the ranks among the greenie weenies.
Posted by: Teresa at December 04, 2007 07:11 PM (rVIv9)
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From Michael Crichton's State of Fear: "If there's anything worse than a limousine liberal," Morton said, "it's a Gulfstream environmentalist."
"But George," Evans said, "you're a Gulfstream environmentalist."
"I know it," Morton said. "And I wish it bothered me more."Heh. Read some of the other excerpts too.
Jack?
"As in one-eyed jacks are wild."
LOLLL!
But you're 100% right. I could see it from watching the people i was in school with -- especially college. The kids who were pre-med (cough) and just whined themselves to better grades. I saw a lot of it in the undergrads at JHU, too. Um, not to pick on pre-meds. Or doctors. It's just the people I found were around me who did it most!
