Poll for the Christmas-haters

[Geek_the_Greek]

Cadaverous Commentary

While some merrymakers deck the halls with boughs of holly, other holiday displays feature a blood-spattered Santa Claus gripping a severed head. Joel Krupnik and Mildred Castellanos embraced a macabre approach to decorating the front of their Manhattan mansion as a form of social commentary. "It is a religious holiday, but they have turned it into a business," said Krupnik, who disdains the commercialization and secularization of Christmas. Their ornamentation includes a knife-wielding St. Nick, a tree full of decapitated Barbie dolls, and an elf clutching a disembodied doll's head with fake blood streaming from its eye sockets, the Associated Press reported. "Sick, sick, sick," griped one passerby. But another Manhattanite said the décor echoed how he felt when watching someone dressed as SpongeBob SquarePants promote products at Rockefeller Center. "This is brilliant," he said.

-- Jenny McKeel for Wired News

 

Dude, that' f'ing great! I don't mind Christmas, and have fond memories from when I was a kid, family stuff, blah blah. But I do hate stores and malls around this time, and it's a like a double that this is the time of year that I'm most likely to go to a mall (trying to figure out what the fawk to get for my folks). Handmade/crafty gifts are certainly best, but they take time, which is increasingly scarce.

[cj001f]

I love getting ripped!

Does Destro take advantage of you when you're drunk?

[Cobra_Commander]

too busy slipping roofies in the Baroness' egg nog right now

[chucK]

If you really wanna get cheered up at Christmas find yerself a copy of Ernest Tubb's "Blue Christmas". It's the greatest Christmas Record ever, well, except for maybe that Vince Guaraldi/Peanuts Xmas disc.