Dear Santa Blogs: What are you doing this year to provide us with a really good Christmas cong controversy? I rely on this every year as a chaser for all the good will and cheer being tossed at me, and so far, I haven’t heard a peep from you about it. Grumpy InContinue reading “SANTA BLOGS XLIII”
Tag Archives: holidays
Get Busy, Hallmark
I have a very poor record when it comes to proposing new holidays. I have sought to increase the market for holiday observances which can help me sell more greeting cards or postcards, but despite my mercenary motivation, my heart is pure. (The jury is still out on “Pure WHAT?”) But while lookingContinue reading “Get Busy, Hallmark”
MORE Holiday Needs
Of course, I reckoned without the ingenuity of Madison Avenue. Those of you who have read the last column in this space will be aware that I have so far failed utterly to find any conspiracy theories about Theodore Roosevelt. It isn’t that he is not liable to accusations—no one whose name appearsContinue reading “MORE Holiday Needs”
SANTA BLOGS XLII
Dear Santa Flops: Oh you darling fat fraud, there is only one thing I really want from you this Christmas, and that is that you keep far away from my holiday gift list. How am I supposed to train my relatives to give me useful things, like an online subscription to the Screaming StreamingContinue reading “SANTA BLOGS XLII”
Daze of Festival
Ah yes: it’s that time of year again. I say that, but I don’t believe it. For some of us, it has been that time of year since about the middle of October. This period of time, which we can call by the nebulous term “holiday season” has delighted me since I was oldContinue reading “Daze of Festival”
Cabbage Collection
The city where I live does not want to let St. Patrick’s Day go by unobserved. It has been the custom, even in the depths of the pandemic, when the holiday falls in the middle of the week, to observe two St. Patrick’s Day weekends. In addition, there are plenty of people who addContinue reading “Cabbage Collection”
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