Thursday, December 19, 2002
BAH HUMBUG, NOT! Should you feel inclined to sympathize with Scrooge this Christmas, beware the wrath of James Lilieks. Read the whole thing of course, but I quite particularly chuckled at his re-writing of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and this:
While others are humming carols, trimming trees and picking out gifts for the people they love, Mr. and Mrs. Williams have taken all their Christmas gift money this year -- $1,200 -- and spent it on the attack ad.
"I think the billboard is stark, it's angry, it's red. Black letters on red, the Christmas colours," she said when asked to describe the sign.
Red and green are Christmas colors. Black and red are the colors of a goth who had an accident slicing a bagel.
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Mrs. Williams said she and her husband have been grumbling to themselves about "Christmas hell" for several years. A few seasons ago they started to boycott the whole gift-giving, carol-singing, egg-nogging thing and began to send out the anti-Christmas cards, along with a note informing family that instead of giving them gifts they were making donations to charity.
It says a great deal about these people that they think informing people that they’re giving donations to charity in lieu of gifts is an anti-Christmas act.
