Ramble On - Or How I Get Through This Life

To celebrate the beginning of the 12 days of Christmas, my family and I watch Pee Wee's Christmas Special every December 13th. I realize that Paul Reubens was using coke throughout most of the show's five seasons and that "Pee Wee" is actually a slang term for crack...go figure. I imagine the drug played no small role in the execution of 1988's Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special. Pee-wee's Playhouse was subconsciously infecting the minds of children with a subversive (but oh so convincing) message of holiday naughtiness. The Christmas Special is a hands-down, balls out affair. (HA!) It is the greatest Christmas special ever to air on national television. Yep I said it!

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Posted By: Miswanderlust - Category: Christmas

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Holiday Let Up

December 28th 2006 04:57

I know that many folks experience post-holiday let-down, or PHLD. You know that melancholy that many of us experience after the last of the decorations are put away, the gifts have found a place in everyday life and we are back to our routines of work, school and regular life.

I think that the holiday season is similar to taking a great vacation – it's a euphoric time that lasts a relatively short time. The glitz and glamour of decorations, holiday music, and elaborate store window displays make it seem like the world has become one big amusement park. Folks engage in random acts of kindness, strangers smile at each other on the street, and everyone is a little more generous with their time, money, and compliments. With all of that good cheer and goodwill, who wouldn't be sad to see the holidays end

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'Twas the Day After Christmas

December 26th 2006 18:46

Richard A. Feinberg, professor of consumer sciences and retailing at Purdue University has released holiday shopping facts and figures based on data from the Purdue Retail Institute, the National Retail Federation, and the International Council of Shopping Centers:

* Although many believe the Friday after Thanksgiving is the busiest shopping day of the year, it is not. It is the fifth to tenth busiest day. The Friday and Saturday before Christmas are the two busiest shopping days of the year

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Do they know it's Christmas?

December 26th 2006 01:59

Is it just me or is this the worst Christmas song ever? Every time you turned on the radio the months preceding Christmas 1984 , you were met with the self indulgent intonations of the artists that made the agony possible....Sting, Michael Jackson, and George Michael just to name a few (not to mention many f list artists). (Talk about your clanging chimes of doom...) I am happy to report that 22 years later, this song has made it to the third ring of hell... the Karaoke bar. In it's new incarnation, it is brilliant. Ain't nothing like drunken patrons "raising a glass for everyone" while belting their hearts out all in the name of holiday cheer.
It is the greatest gift you'll get all year. There is no need to be afraid.... Video of original recording

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