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The 12 Hates of Christmas: #1-Decorating
You’ve heard of the Days of Christmas. Well, here is my spoof on it called the The Hates of Christmas. It’s a tweak of my article 10 Things I Hate About the Holidays, but with some changes and even more content. It’s posted over at a site called ReThinkmonthly.com:
I hate all the time it takes to decorate. Now, let me be clear, I lovedecorations and things being decorated. I just don’t like doing it! Theuntangling of lights, finding hooks for each ornament, finding the onebulb in a string of 50 that is keeping the whole string dead, andpretending like I am having so much fun for the kids sake is all veryfrustrating….[Click her to read the rest]
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Actually, I’d forgotten about “Chestnuts roasting…”. It’s pretty okay, maybe even awesome. Maybe that’s why I haven’t heard it in the stores yet this year. They really seem to *prefer* banality.
Don’t know the Run DMC song, but I’ll keep my ears peeled.
-Steve
Come on now. You can’t tell me the whole “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…”
isn’t an awesome song.
Although, Run DMC’s “Christmas In Hollis” is pretty awesome. It’s a bit more modern.
Hey, I have one. Not sure if it made your list. Secular music only in malls, big-box retailers and fast-food chains.
Not that I’m against secular Christmas music as such, but everything they seem to play is 50+ years old, and reminiscent of Sinatra at his worst. I wouldn’t mind some Beach Boys, or Ronnie and the Ronnettes. I love Jose Feliciano singing Felice Navidad. And Cheech and Chong’s Santa and His Old Lady will always bee classic.
But if I hear one more back to back rendition of Winter Wonderland, Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, and Merry Little Christmas I think I’ll just snap 🙂
Let’s face it, for “traditional” Christmas music, all the good stuff is sacred music. If that’s X’ed out, all that’s left is schlock. And I’m getting really tired of a solid month of schlock.
Including non-Christian and secular traditions as part of the holiday celebration is one thing, and I don’t see much of a problem with it. But aggressive secularism that seeks to transform Christmas into a secular occasion by stripping it of its spiritual elements is something else again.
-Steve