tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375512083268389933.post3250912305566226409..comments2023-09-30T10:36:23.154-05:00Comments on Accidental Historian: It's Beginning to Look a lot like ChristmasGedshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15047239425466517786noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375512083268389933.post-6137952409684587412009-12-17T12:46:22.684-06:002009-12-17T12:46:22.684-06:00Happy holidays, Geds.
So who thinks we'll see...Happy holidays, Geds.<br /><br />So who thinks we'll see some lucky guy wearing GAP jeans, Nike shoes, Oakley jacket, and Gucci cologne while playing golf with his new Mizuno clubs with an iPhone at his hip?<br /><br />What other fun combination can we make?Fake Al Gorehttp://twitter.com/dustincook469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375512083268389933.post-66812308978650814072009-12-17T08:21:41.481-06:002009-12-17T08:21:41.481-06:00Happy Monkey
You know it does get cold in Dallas ...Happy Monkey<br /><br />You know it does get cold in Dallas also. It is just the biting wind off the lake is not present. Last week we had an overnight low of 17 degrees, so you will get a chance to use that coat, just not as often as in Chicago.<br /><br />I am the same with gifts, just give me gift cards. I am happy when I get a gift card to a good restaurant (check out a Saltgrass Steak House when you get here).<br /><br />I understand the Kindle, it is convenience. I don't want one either but I understand the lure.<br /><br />Celebrating Christmas to me is about getting together with the family. Receiving something you wanted but never felt like buying (the gf got me a Garmin GPS) and just spending the time to be with one another. Sure we should do this more often and it is telling that we have to set this time aside but that is a discussion for another day. For now I will enjoy my family, let them make their religious pretenses and just be quiet because it is not about me but my family.BeamStalkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17772110446629492132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375512083268389933.post-88943533913793320442009-12-16T22:24:44.941-06:002009-12-16T22:24:44.941-06:00I dunno, the Earl Grey as a fragrance thing doesn&...I dunno, the Earl Grey as a fragrance thing doesn't seem so weird to me: I've got a little bottle of bergamot oil for pretty much that reason. But then again, that sort of thing might be easier for a girl to pull off. (Although, I think using an essential oil purchased at a health food store rather than a cologne probably puts me squarely into the category of Big Dirty Hippie, and doesn't qualify me to comment on what is or isn't weird.)<br /><br /><br /><i>"When retail outlets started substituting 'Happy Holidays' for 'Merry Christmas'"</i><br /><br />Um, what universe does Boggs inhabit, exactly? The phrase "Happy Holidays" has been around since...well, long enough to be a friggin' Bing Crosby song, so it's pretty safe to say that it wasn't something recently invented by the Enemies of Christmas for the express purpose of making baby Jesus cry. "Season's Greetings" goes back even farther than that. Even as an Evangelical, back when I'd glom onto just about any reason to feel persecuted for my faith, I never could understand the epic level of pantytwistery surrounding this issue.<br /><br /><i>Gods, fairy tales, and mythological figures -- and, hell, those $300 electronic doodads wrapped all in red paper -- tend to take a back seat to the real people sitting across the table.</i><br /><br />Hell yes.<br /><br />I came to the realization not long ago that even as a Christian, Christmas was never about Christ's birth for me. Oh sure, it's what I'd dutifully say when asked, and we always had a nativity scene, but it's never what was on my mind when I was looking forward to Christmas itself. It's always been about enjoying the company of family and friends (and, ok, also the food). Not everyone has family they actually <i>look forward</i> to being around, and I feel fortunate to be able to say that, during the holidays, I drink <i>with</i> my family, not <i>because of</i> my family.<br /><br />Speaking of drinking, and of wars on Christian-appropriated pagan holidays, why do we never hear any sort of uproar about the Evil Secularists and their "Spring Break" debauchery as a part of the War On Easter?The Woeful Budgiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00940543617741545988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3375512083268389933.post-89550147926246815802009-12-16T15:48:33.091-06:002009-12-16T15:48:33.091-06:001) Holy crap that Colbert bit on the CHRIST-mas tr...1) Holy crap that Colbert bit on the CHRIST-mas tree was awesome. I laughed so loud I was afraid of waking up the kiddo.<br />2) I can not fathom the lure of the Kindle. Give up my books? All of my books? For a little peice of plastic and metal that gives me none of the satisfaction of opening a new book for the first time, or the smell of old books? Yeah, no.<br />Anyway, Merry Christmas, Happy Festivus, whatnot.Leighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01264241978515946396noreply@blogger.com