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Thursday, December 18, 2003
Lunchtime in midtown during the Christmas season is like a cold, ambulatory version of hell, a rainbow of pashmina and trenchcoats. You never feel more like lashing out in a spastic flurry of fists and kicks than that moment on the sidewalk when you need to shout "GAH FUCK WILL YOU FUCKING MOVE ALREADY!" at some ovine claque of midwesterners acting like a garland-bedecked streetlamp is a fucking wonder of the world. My boss came back from a lunchtime shopping trip looking like an Afghani refugee with all her possessions in bags and the thousand-yard stare of a frustrated consumer. Apparently other people had the shopping urge at the same time, go figure.
I just had a relatively painless experience at the bookstore, which was mercifully, if depressingly, empty. People don't like books as much as they like gilt-coated plastic elf dildos, or bobble-head reindeer. Or chocolate-covered machetes! Nog stockings! MOVE IT, GRANNY WISCONSON! I bought my books and felt very smug about my literacy until I saw a copy of FHM, at which point I coated the front of my parka with vomit. FHM has a way of convincing semi-reputable actor-types to wear the most retarded garments made of shredded ribbon or whatever, and also of making that Buffy girl look like a zombie horse. I hate men's magazines almost as much as I hate men. But I like Christmas because I like buying things. Spending money is not something I was indoctrinated to do -- I've always been very good at it. Chanukah is okay, but even the semi-clever eight day scheme can't make up for the essential shabbiness of the holiday in comparison to Christmas. I walked past a gound-floor retail space that's been empty for months, and they had begun to set up some kind of event-space called "Chanukah House," with giant menorahs and some flatscreen displays (wha?) and a truly awful series of rotating dioramas depicting... who knows? Nobody knows what Chanukah is a commemoration of. A war maybe? A visitation by aliens? God's decision to make one side of my family much better at Monopoly than the other? There are no coniferous trees in the holy land. How sad is that? 0 comments |
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