This year I'm buying everybody either a book or a CD, very well-chosen ones from independant stores. I'm probably spending 150 bucks total on shopping presents for peeps who are close to me. I go for something that's not very expensive but will also mean something (because I am poor. If I were rich I would probably buy lavish useless stuff on ebay).
The Consumerism of Christmas bothers most everybody, yet everyone partakes in its Devo-esque stimulation, even if for a moment -- like a vegetarian eating a very renowned meat sandwich. To boot, most people love shopping, it's a past-time.
1. So why wouldn't it be appropriate to shop at Christmas?
2. How does the Consumerism of Christmas affect you?
3. Do you do it up with Western Style Lavishness?
4. Do you keep it quiet and with the family?
5. Is it a general piss-up celebration?
6. Keep it traditional?
7. Have you ever given thought to your attitudes and your actions during the Christmas Season and how they might contradict each other?
"Every hear of punk rock? Fuck I hate this. Fuck you couple in the subaru. Fuck you truck man."
Those were my very serious thoughts as I walked through the London Drugs entrance. I bought some CD-Rs for people that didn't mean much to me. I walked around a little bit and picked up a Spider-Man Karate chop figurine, and next to it lay a package containing little dolls with exchangable heads (?) for my niece, who, as far as I know, is anywhere between seven and twelve years old. So I picked that up as well. I also purchased an unbelievably large chocolate bar for my mother which I ended up eating myself.
1. So why wouldn't it be appropriate to shop at Christmas? red scare!
2. How does the Consumerism of Christmas affect you? my heartrate rises in malls. I knock over Christmas trees and cry over lottery tickets.
3. Do you do it up with Western Style Lavishness? Oh yes. I spare no expense.
4. Do you keep it quiet and with the family? If you call nursing a hangover after a night of carousing "quiet" and "family" then yes.
5. Is it a general piss-up celebration? No, not until I visited Comox for the first Christmas ...
Your uncles deliberately tried to give me alcohol poisoning (and I loved them for it!)
6. Keep it traditional? as your attorney I advise you to traditionalize something else.
7. Have you ever given thought to your attitudes and your actions during the Christmas Season and how they might contradict each other?
Posted by: joy at December 21, 2005 10:14 PM