If you don’t want to cross Santa… Oh well: too late!
Just a short seasonal message from me today, picked from the Daily News.
Ho, ho, ho and all of that:
If you’ve stood in one line too many at the mall as you watched your bank account dwindle and your credit debt rise this holiday season, you might find a kindred spirit in Art Conrad.
The Bremerton, Wash., resident is fed up with the commercial aspects of Christmas, and he’s voicing his protest in the form of some unorthodox holiday decorating: Santa on the cross.
Conrad has nailed jolly old St. Nick to a 15-foot crucifix in front of his home.
“Santa has been perverted from who he started out to be,” Conrad said. “Now he’s the person being used by corporations to get us to buy more stuff.”
For his far flung friends who may not be able to see the holiday decor up close, Conrad used a photo of his crucified Santa for his Christmas cards, along with the message “Santa died for your MasterCard.”
And I’ll leave you with one of the most terrible Christmas songs ever produced by the commercial pop porn industry: The Cheetah Girls with their ‘Cheatahlicious Christmas’:
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May 1st, 2008 at 14:38
Thats totally crazy, imagine the shock kids would get!
May 1st, 2008 at 14:42
From watching that horrible video clip? A few years’ worth of therapy certainly,
J.