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Holiday “Cheer”

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This is about as cheerful as I get during this Holiday season: I get to wear a hat that if I wore it at any other time of the year people would just look at me like I escaped from the asylum. Which maybe I did. Once.

Speaking of lunatics, I always thought this would make a good Christmastime song. Then again, what the Hell do I know about Holiday cheer?

Yes, it’s a cover of the 1981 song “The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)” by Fun Boy Three. I like this version by Collide from the 2004 album “Vortex” better.

Until next time...
Erik

So PC it’s not.

Ponderings,

It’s an oldie… yet so still true.


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I’m sure I’m cynical after working in the retail world since college, but why is it that humans frantically run around during this time of year crossing names off of lists after spending monies they can’t really afford to spend?

It seems that people expect to have all their consumption wishes fulfilled during this season. As if it was an obligation. And if they don’t, tantrums ensue.

To an extent, as a small business owner I’m biting the hands that feed me. But to me there is a huge difference between personally saving up for something you want versus demanding you receive it from others. I can’t begin to count how many “children” have come in to the studio with “parents” and then threw a fit to get what they wanted. And the “parents” acquiesced.

Yeah. That’s good parenting.

Until next time...
Erik