Friday, December 22, 2006

I'm hungover

I just wanted to say Merry Christmas, Drive safely and enjoy the eggnog.

Peace

Friday, December 15, 2006

Welcome to My blog and first rant

So, I know that everyone and their grandmother has a blog by now, but this one won't suck. I figured that I would start this to share my thoughts on whatever happens to grab me as worthy of talking about. Also, sometimes I just need to rant, and it's not really fair to expect my girlfriend to deal with that all of the time, so I figured I'd do it here....... The idea popped into my head when I got an email from my sister today, and it was something that Ben Stein wrote, or so the eamil's author claimed, and it made me feel like it would be fun to put some stuff out there for people to see (or just myself to see in a slightly glorified way). It made me wish I had an audience to infect with my ideas and thoughts. So here we are.

I am going to try to get outta work a bit early today, but I just wanted to get this started. Put the ground work down and get this rolling. It's almost 4 and I have to pick up some beer and what not on the way home and there's really no reason for me to get stuck in traffic on my way home. I mean it's friday, and It's time to wash the shit of the week away with a few cocktails.

But the thing I wanted to run by whomever is going to read this is something that I've heard a lot of people talk about, and that's the death of Christmas. Now, I'm calling it the death of xmas because it seems like that's the direction in which we're headed. And I'm not all holy roller and everything. At this point, I'm not even sure what Christmas really means to me anyway, and that's not the point either. I'm talking about this because I feel that people aren't thinking, and when a whole shit load of people stop thinking and don't question why, that scares me. It seems there a lot of people who won't say Merry Christmas, call the vegetation we decorate a christmans tree instead of a holiday tree (....oh that's right because multiple holidays incorporate a tree covered with glowing stuff) or do anything else that shows to others the essence of the Christmas Holiday. The term Merry Christmas has become something people are afraid to say. It just seems so odd. As someone who celebrates Christmas, I think it would be nice for someone who is jewish to say "Happy Chanukah" to me because that's what is important to them. For that brief instant, I'm part of their holiday, and that's good and makes me feel important to them. But why is it that people (many Christian's, mind you) are afraid of those two words Merry Christmas? Obviously no one want's to offend anyone.....but I really think it just comes down to stupidity. People have stopped thinking about what is reasonable and unreasonable, and that's the stupid part. Let me ask you a few questions: Did you get your holiday tree yet? Did you send your holiday cards and shop for holiday presents? Did you perhaps have a holiday party where your friends came over and listened to holiday music like Deck the halls? If you celebrate Christmas and answered yes to any of these questions; you're a moron. I mean no offense, but those are the traditions associated wit hChristmas, and that's ok. It isn't racist, insensitive, or any other guilty word if you celebrate Christmas. Hell, it doesn't even make you exclusive. In fact, there's not even anything wrong with someone wishing someone else a merry Christmas and there's nothing wrong with someone wishing you a Happy Chanukah. It makes you care about your traditions and that's nothing about which people should feel awkward, or of which people should feel ashamed.

Merry Christmas. I'm going to get drunk.