Pages Tagged “Christmas”
Reviews
- A Christmas Carol
★★★★★
Charles Dickens
It’s been ages since I last read the original, and I wanted a break from a longer book two days before Christmas, so I figured I’d pick it up. And yeah, the story holds up.
Blog Posts
- Been Waiting a While?
Saw this while out walking this morning. I guess holiday decorations can last as long as you want them to!
- Reindeers are better than Covid…
Look, I get it, we all want to return to normal, but can we at least wait until after Halloween to put up the Christmas decorations? Spotted today during a store pickup at the mall.
- Reindeer in a Rush
Christmas already? Spotted at the mall last night, a full week before Halloween.
- Holiday Creep? Yeah, We’ve Got That
Oh, come on. It’s still September. Holiday Creep is getting ridiculous. Sorry, I mean more ridiculous.
- New front in holiday creep
Spotted at the grocery store today.
- Wait a minute…
Sign: Free pizza on Christmas Day! Closed Dec. 25.
- Christmas vs Halloween: The Battle Continues
Christmas strikes deeper into Halloween’s territory, continuing a relentless campaign that began decades ago in response to a 1993 incursion from Halloween Town. In recent years, Halloween has shored up its position by moving into previously unclaimed parts of the calendar in early October and September, itself running roughshod over tentative efforts by Oktoberfest to […]
- Let it Snow! (Frozen edition)
How has Disney not done some variation on this for Christmas this year? A T-shirt, decorations, something.
- Flashback: Happy Holidays & Season’s Greetings
I found this old Mervyn’s box from the 80s in with the Christmas ornaments when we set up our tree.
- Holiday Creep at Costco
Photo: It’s barely October, and Costco already has ten times as much Christmas stuff as Halloween. And that’s not counting the vastly expanded toy section.
- I Dream of Holiday Creep
Christmas decorations already up and it’s not even Halloween. How about letting holidays actually, y’know, HAPPEN before moving onto N+2 (what happened to Thanksgiving, anyway?)
- TMI, Santa!
Sign spotted at a mini-mall: Santa & Mrs. Claus Wax Here.
- It’s beginning to look a lot like…medieval weaponry?
I’ve seen dangerous-looking Christmas decorations at the mall before, but at least those looked like…well, Christmas decorations.
- September Christmas
It’s September 13. Technically it’s still SUMMER.
- Holiday Creep(y)
One nice thing about The Nightmare Before Christmas is that it’s good for anytime from October through December!
- WTF Reindeer Lady
A female mannequin with a reindeer’s head, wearing what appears to be a corset, a tutu, full-length gloves and a white beehive.
- Misdirected
Got a compliment on good tech support 🙂 … but it was intended for another company with a similar name. 🙁 I alternate between finding it amusing & annoying that I get spam for local businesses in Brazil. It’s a bit of a drive from SoCal. It’s sad to get Christmas cards for someone who […]
- Manic Monday
First, some linkblogging… The Spam Primer has been “completely revamped.” Mars Express Orbiter catches video of moons Phobos and Deimos. And then the “fun” started. Me: I’m going to focus on project X today! Computer needed for project X: I’m going to lock up today! Me: Argh! Someone thought it would be a good idea […]
- Southcoast of Borg
We are South Coast Plaza of Borg. You will be overstimulated! After only 20 minutes at the mall on Saturday, I was already feeling overwhelmed.
- Egg Nog: Do Not Use As Infant Formula
I know this is just a blanket disclaimer/warning label left over from the standard rice milk carton…but who would use egg nog as infant formula?
- Errand Observations
The Spectrum food court has ripped out the planters. I guess they realized they needed the floor space after they chopped off one end. It’s Halloween, so Target has the Christmas decorations up!
- Zune Fail, Comment Win & Holiday Creep
Weird: Zunes all over the world froze up at the same time overnight. Comment win: “like she was going to rip his arm off and beat his spleen to death with it. Not him; just his spleen” Just a quick store run – yeah along with everyone else in town. More holiday creep! I still […]
- Bells, Not Words
I like “Carol of the Bells” as an instrumental piece. Sung with lyrics? Not so much. It feels tacked on.
- Mall Crush
Must remember: just because the mall is the CLOSEST place to grab lunch doesn’t make it the BEST place, esp. 3 days before Christmas.
- Christmas Shopping
Need to sleep. Found myself typing “Satan Claus” by mistake. Symptom of car culture: I almost feel like I have to justify crossing the street on foot to go to another store instead of moving the car. Sun Halo. All you have to do is look up once in a while. Linens & Things: Nothing […]
- Even Santas Have it Tough
Presumably this institution is designed to serve the needs of Santa Clauses who subsist on Ho-Hos. 😀
- Shopping Observations
Can we get a moratorium on covers of “Last Christmas?” Actually, can we get one on the original too? Funny how easy it is to spot a cover by Darryl K. Sweet. It makes me want to mash up Xanth, WOT, and every other fantasy series he’s covered I can’t see giving someone Countdown to […]
- Christmas Songs
I like hearing so many different kinds of music at Christmas time. Except when they play the same songs over and over and over and over and…
- Santa Hats, Translation, Expelled
Saw a bunch of Santa hats lying alongside the entire length of the 55 South to 405 South ramp – and it’s a long bridge. Maybe a box came open? Got tech support question in Spanish for wrong company. Replied in bad Spanish with link. Checked against Google Translate. Google has a better vocabulary than […]
- Holiday Seasons: Then and Now
When I was a kid, I remember the last few months of the year broke down like this: Back to School in early-to-mid September Halloween for the second half of October Thanksgiving for the second half of November Christmas in December New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day These days it seems more like this: […]
- Clarify and Classify
If only the super high-tech jet fighters had identified, clarified & classified, they’d have seen the attack for what it really was. Good grief. “Traditional marriage” didn’t go away when gays were let into the club. It doesn’t need a discriminatory law to “restore” it. South Coast Plaza has Christmas decorations up ALREADY. Halloween doesn’t […]
- Shopping Oddities
Catching up here on some stuff I saw in stores last December during (and after) Christmas shopping. The “perfectly cromulent gifts” is my favorite of the bunch. The Simpsons display was found at a Borders bookstore, probably the one at The Block at Orange. I love the fact that the “Bah Humbug” hat is actually […]
- Santa’s other job
Spotted last summer. In case you were wondering… …now you know what he does for the rest of the year!
- Christmas Creep On-Air
Went to lunch today, and the restaurant was playing Christmas music, two days before Thanksgiving. It wasn’t entirely their fault; they were just playing KOST, and the radio station had gone into full Christmas mode. Now, I normally like hearing Christmas music on the radio. It’s one of the few times of year that you […]
- Snow More!
Oh the crowds outside are frightful, But the music’s so delightful… ’Cept for ev’ry darn place we go, It’s “Let it Snow!” “Let it Snow!” “Let it Snow!” Seriously. It seems like this song has somehow become the most popular Christmas song this year. I normally don’t mind it, but come on! It doesn’t help […]
- Star of Damocles
For various reasons, braved the crowds at South Coast Plaza yesterday. Oddly, it’s the easiest mall I’ve parked at all weekend. Getting to the Marketplace was a disaster, but that’s just because the streets are wholly inadequate to get cars in and out of the parking lot, and the Village (formerly the Mall of Orange) […]
- DC’s Missed Opportunity
As of two weeks ago, DC was still talking about its upcoming Infinite Christmas special. Yesterday, the book came out, complete with a logo based on the Infinite Crisis logo. Only it had been renamed the Infinite Holiday special, ruining the joke. No word on why they changed it, but someone on the Newsarama forums […]
- Nightmare Before Christmas: 3-D Edition
This weekend we went out to see The Prestige, which was quite good. The next theater over was running The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D, and we figured, what the heck? After the first movie, we got tickets for another. The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my favorite movies, but for some reason the […]
- Swimming in Christmas Trees
The Macy’s in the Laguna Hills Mall has a small storefront for seasonal products. In the lead-up to Christmas it’s full of decorations, ornaments, wrapping paper, and such. During the summer, it was swimwear. (I’m not sure what they use it for in winter.) I walked by today, and they seem to be in transition: […]
- Strange Shopping Sights
While Christmas shopping, I kept seeing things that made me wish I had brought my camera. The ridiculously giant Christmas tree at Fashion Island was not one of them; all I needed was a picture demonstrating its height. A toy store yielded a number of amusements (appropriately enough), in the form of a series of […]
- Merry Christmas!
- Christmas is still safe
Salon has a great piece on how there is no left-wing war on Christmas. This “OMG the blue staters want to ban Christmas” tripe was idiotic last year, and it’s back with a vengeance this year. Honestly, all this fuss over things like “Happy Holidays,” an expression designed to avoid offending people? Remember, in most […]
- Starbucks Early Holiday
I stopped in a Starbucks after lunch last Wednesday. I confused the barista by ordering a frappucino—he said something about how I was going to freeze my kidneys or something, and when I remarked that I was going to be in the office, he said he was joking with everyone who ordered anything cold. (Local […]
- Christmas Gets Earlier Every Year
I dropped into Sav-on briefly today. Among other things I wanted to top off the supply of Halloween candy for Monday. Imagine my surprise to find that Halloween was crammed into half an aisle, and there were two aisles of Christmas already. (You may notice that the sign above this one doesn’t say “Seasonal” or […]