Okay, so we should all be over our turkey hangover, and if you were brave enough to venture out during Black Friday you know that Christmas (or Holiday, if you're overly-PC) fever has hit. From now until December 25th, I'm sure to have many posts devoted to the various aspects of the season.
This said I feel I must comment on A Charlie Brown Christmas. This is one of the constants of the Christmas season. When we were kids, we knew that we would see Charlie Brown, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and A Christmas Story (you'll shoot your eye out!). I'm sure I'll be posting about the last of the list closer towards C-Day. 24 hours of A Christmas Story on TNT and/or TBS. 'Nuff said. Anywho, back to Charlie Brown.
They showed this tonight and I was struck by two things. One, it seems way too early for this to be shown. It's not even December yet and they're already showing the Christmas specials. I guess I shouldn't be surprised when stores are putting out Christmas crap even before Halloween. Sad, but true.
Two, we may never see more specials made after say 1990 that has "Christmas" in the title. Now we're all so politically correct that it must be "Holiday". They even mentioned today on The Morning Mash-Up (gratuitous Sirius plug here) that Lowes, a.k.a. We're The Other Home Depot, is no longer offering Christmas trees. They are now known as "Family Holiday Trees." A little over the top? Ya think?!? I understand the desire to keep everyone happy but it's winter, after Thanksgiving, which in America, and for a good chunk of the world, this means Christmas. Does everyone celebrate it, no, but I don't think it's too much to hope that not everyone will be offended by saying "Merry Christmas." I blame the people that have nothing better to do with their time than to wreck stuff for other people. I think these are the same people that watch every television show and movie and then write to the FCC, MPAA, FBI, PTA, etc., to narc out every curse word, sexual innuendo, and possible phallyic symbol in the place and wreck it for everyone else. Thanks guys.
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Right on sister! I couldn't believe as I was flipping thru the channels that Charlie Brown was ALREADY on. Christmas sure has turned into something that it SO isn't meant to be. That's our society as it is today...SAD but true!
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