How Religious People Ruined the Holidays for the Rest of Us!
When I was growing up (and it wasn’t that long ago) the holidays between Halloween all the way through Easter were my favorite times of the year. At Christmas time, I remember getting into the car with my parents and grandparents and riding around to the local towns to look at the Christmas displays on the town commons to see the beautiful lights twinkling magically in icy night air.
It is so sad that my children will never have the same experiences that I did growing up because holiday decorations, and the general spirit of good will that comes with the seasons are quickly becoming a thing of the past. [Read more →]
December 1, 2007 5 Comments
Top 17 Holiday Songs (by Someone Who Hates Christmas)
For as long as I can remember, I’ve absolutely loathed the mere thought of Christmas, never mind the holiday itself. I even hate Thanksgiving, for I know that the festive holiday season is right before us. In recent years, I’ve noticed how quickly the time passes between Halloween and Thanksgiving (the deathly prelude to Christmas), so I’m even beginning to get turned off to my favorite holiday of spooks and ghouls. Pretty soon, I’m just going to hate every day of the year.
Anyways, my husband calls me the “Anti-Christ of Christmas”, for he is truly Clark W. Griswold of “Christmas Vacation” fame. But I try my best to get into the season, mostly for the sake of my kids. I decorate the house, trim the tree, and even occasionally listen to a holiday song or two during the season. That’s why I decided to compile a list of my “Top 17 Holiday Songs”- for there might just be hope for me yet…
#17- ”Christmas is the Time to Say “I Love You”” - by Billy Squier: One of my faves from the early 80’s, Massachusetts native Billy Squier sings a happy song with a decent beat about spreading good cheer around the holidays. There are a lot worse songs out there.
#16- ”Christmas Wrapping” - by The Waitresses: Unique in it’s own right, The Waitresses vocalize the tale of forgetting to pick up the cranberry sauce and meeting a guy at the all-night grocery store. Kind of “rapping”, kind of “singing”, this tune gets one of my top spots for being the most original.
#15- ”The Chipmunk Song” - by The Chipmunks: Recording something spoken very slow and speeding it up never sounded so good. Whoda thought that these guys would have been as big as they are. I wish I had a hula-hoop too, Alvin. But that’s why we have Christmas.
December 1, 2007 2 Comments
Conspiracy I: The Moon Landing
This, I think, will be my first giving to you, the reader, a short piece on a few popular conspiracies. In no way, at all, is any of the information presented in these (unless I state otherwise) something of my own doing. It’s all taken, and compiled, from various websites. I take no credit.
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We’ve all been lead to believe that man first landed on the moon on July 20th, 1969. Now, although we may have that kind of technology in current times, was it really possible to do such a thing back then? Or was it completely fake? - A hoax meant only to prove the Russians wrong or to take America’s weary mind off of things.
December 1, 2007 1 Comment
