We hear that all the time, but can you think of a single holiday that happens more than once a year? There aren't two Easters. Or two Halloweens. So, why should there be more than one Christmas?
And all of this good-will-toward-all stuff is pretend. I hate to break it to you, but mankind, as a unit, has never united once in its history. Not one day a year, not ever.
Boy, am I in the Christmas spirit. Good grief. Who tinkled in my Grape Nuts Flakes?
My apologies. I will strive to get in "the holiday." At the moment, I'm feverishly assembling Yuletide tracks. It helps, in that regard, that I'm highly sinus-inflamed today. The weather is doing it. At any rate, I thrifted for Christmas records yesterday after a few days of staring, mouth agape, at insane prices on eBay. For example, an auction in progress for Bing Crosby's White Christmas on Decca, 78 RPM, was up to $20.00 (four bids)!!! Bing's White Christmas is widely regarded as the single most common record in existence--and it probably is. What do people think they're doing? And Jimmy Boyd and Gayla Peevey 78s are going for too much, while dirt-common Christmas LPs are fetching prices far in excess of the buck or two one would pay at Goodwill. I guess, with our booming economy (so insists the news, over and over), people have money to waste. I don't know. I know that I didn't assemble the collection I have by paying ten times what each item was worth. So, to heck with eBay.
Well... not totally. At the Bay, I landed what looks to be a terrific XMas novelty for $1.99. The dealer doesn't take PayPal, and I find that such ads are often for the taking. Rather, the items in them. Hell, I don't mind mailing a check. It's kind of... nostalgic. Charmingly old-fashioned. A check. Snail-mail. Details of a distant, nearly forgotten past. I savor the opportunity to relive those moments. In fact, I think I even walked to a mailbox at a shopping strip to mail the letter containing the check. Yes, I did. I'm sure I did. It was like a dream, but it did happen. I have witnesses.
I found a number of LPs I can use tracks from. Stuff so middle-of-the-road that it disappears into the asphalt. I find that my weirder XMas tracks mix well with material that's insanely conventional. The two are amazingly in the same league. Logic dictates that they would have nothing in common, but I often can't tell the two apart. How about you?
Silly question. You wouldn't come to this blog if you didn't share that perception....
Lee, doped on painkillers (to cope with a migraine/sinus headache combo)
2 comments:
Actually, the Orthodox church celebrates Easter a couple of weeks after the western church, if I remember correctly. And those quazy Qanadians have Thanksgiving in October. And in Texas, sometime in the last century, the governor of Texas announced that Texas was big enough for 2 Thanksgivings, and that's just what they had.
This just proves your point that people really aren't that united.
And now, off to the post below this one, where I thank you for reposting The Super Song.
-M
Myron,
My pleasure! And you had to go and ruin my rant--with facts, no less. (Smile face)
Yes, our country has never ever been "on the same page." I think Americans have a certain insecurity because of that--I think it's why we try so hard to pretend that we're all of one (brainwashed) mind. It's a guilt thing. So we overdo the unity theme. Let's hope that we never have an administration corrupt enough to shamelessly exploit that insecurity. Such as, for example, by starting a war and impugning the "patriotism" of anyone who questions the motives for doing so.
Lee
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