The Spirit of Christmas Future

broderic on December 21, 2009

Next time, to get into the Christmas spirits just put on the soundtrack to "A Charlie Brown Christmas." The opening bars of the opening song, "O Tannenbaum," is so holiday is ridiculous.

The Spirit of Christmas Present

broderic on December 20, 2009

It may feel like Christmas now.

Cold. Snowing. A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack playing on “Christmas Time is Here.” The presents are wrapped.

More of this. With the ones you love.

It would be Christmas. Now if I can only find the good cheer for my fellow men.

Christmas Spirit

broderic on December 18, 2009

Sometimes I wish for three ghosts to visit me and remind me of what Christmas is all about. Either that or to have a thumbsucking optimist telling me of the first Christmas.

Where has my Christmas spirit gone?

It most likely disappeared when I basically stopped going to church. It’s not that I despise religion. It’s that I despise organized religion. On one hand the Church professes to be God’s representative on earth and on the other hand they have many despicable men in their employ. If God is infallible, why do we have to listen to men that can get it wrong?

Religion also gets my goat. It is used as a cudgel to hammer prejudice home into people’s minds.

Christmas? Bah humbug.

Yet, the idea of Jesus Christ is interesting and makes one happy. I can dig that guy and his hippy ideas. Why did religion mess up his message? Isn’t it enough that they’re living off his fame? Can’t the religious do anything right?

So, I’ll just continue on and try to make things seem like Christmas. I’ll read Dickens. I’ll watch the ol’ blockhead. I’ll try to catch the Christmas cheer.

Quote of the Day [12.30.08]

broderic on December 30, 2008

“Only one thing in the world could’ve dragged me away from the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window.”

Ralphie, A Christmas Story

Four Christmases

broderic on December 27, 2008

The poster for Four Christmases features the stars, Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, bound up in ribbon. You wish that you were bound up yourself to help avoid seeing this movie.

It’s about a couple, living in sin, not married, because they can do what Sally said, “Make love on the kitchen floor,” whenever they want. What they want is to avoid their relatives for Christmas by jetting out to Fiji. Unfortunately, not all goes according to plan. They end up having to go to all their parents’ house to visit for the day.

The parents are each divorced, which means that the couple doesn’t want to get married because they’ll just end up as their parents. Of course, with Christmas they get a warm welcome and realize perhaps being just a couple isn’t so worth it. The movie re-establishes traditional family values of marriage and kids as the end all be all of a loving relationship. Who cares? You knew that was coming. The stories were never funny enough. There was plenty of star power. In fact I was pleasantly surprised to see the boy named Sue show up as a reunion for the Swingers dudes.

Eh! I just didn’t find this funny or worth it at all.

2 of 5 stars.