Our Multicultural Xmas
Sam and I spent Xmas eve and Xmas day doing pretty much nothing. We watched a lot of TV, a lot of movies.
And we ate. Pizza last night. And sandwiches today. I made a pot of Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee (at $60/lb). And then we made Mexican food tonight. ¡Feliz Navidad! indeed!
And one of the movies we watched was 'Ying xiong', or Hero. And we started to watch THX 1138. But we stopped that one less than an hour into it, because it was nothing but stark backgrounds, a lot of social restrictions and etiolated faces. Sam was bored, and I've had enough of the moral-values red-states crap to last a decade, so we stopped it. Maybe we'll pick it back up, but in 2004 (almost 2005!), its message is a bit belabored. Though only when it's not true. Which isn't often. [He said, morosely.]
No Santa in sight. No Jesus in sight. Only A Christmas Story, which isn't about Christmas so much as a wry judgement on the American Monoculture. So, apt.
I have wished family and friends, some of them, a Merry Christmas. To others, “Happy Holidays”. Be warned out there, chil'ren. The christians have their gatchies in a twist about this “happy holidays” business. It's “Merry Christmas” or nothing, dammit! Oy vey. What a tragic mess.
Any bets on when Theocratical Correctness moves from irony to reality?
Comments
It was only $39 a pound, you hoity toity, snobby, A List Bear.
Posted by: Sam | December 26, 2004 01:19 AM
Score one! Nothing, and I mean NOTHING ticks them worse than Xmas, cause it takes the Christ out of Christmas. Why do you think I use it so Xuberently?
Posted by: Lee(Skittles) | December 26, 2004 08:28 AM
Happy holidays to you and Sam as well.
If any of the Gladys Kravitz sect of Christians doesn't like that phrase, they can kiss my non-xian ass.
And I didn't know Jamaican Blue Mountain was that exensive in Ess Eff! ;-)
Posted by: Lee | December 26, 2004 08:35 AM
Apparently it got less expensive. It does seem to be available from more places now than it was 10 yrs ago, when i DID spend the equivalent of $60/lb.
I only get it once a year, so at any price, why the hell not?
Posted by: GodOfBiscuits | December 26, 2004 11:22 AM
Sam, check that again. If you got it at Peets, it was 39.95 for 1/2 a pound or ~$80 a pound. Jamaica Blue, the crack cocaine of coffee.
Posted by: Lee(Skittles) | December 27, 2004 07:44 AM
I don't know that watching movies and eating Mexican food with your haole boyfriend counts as multiculturalism, babe. That would be like me claiming racial sensitivity for listening to Hawaiian music while I drank gin fizzes (red state drink! Warning!) just before going to the beach.
Yeah, I don't think either of those count. But I didn't pay homage to anyone christ-like, either. And that alone would draw the Fundy ire....
Posted by: Josh | December 27, 2004 12:06 PM
umm, AND we watched "Hero". With subtitles and everything!
Posted by: GodOfBiscuits | December 27, 2004 12:15 PM
Break out the Mistletoe for New Year's Eve...
I wanna see you guys kissing!!!
(I'm not a peeping Tom or anything like that, but...) "WOOF!" to you and yours.
Merry X-mas and Happy xxx New Year xxx
Peace and Love,
-RD
Posted by: RainbowDemon | December 27, 2004 12:29 PM
Of course nothing could be more Xian than to use X in Xmas-- the X standing in for the cross itself, and the first letter of Christos in the Greek alphabet. Its use is nearly a century old, well before any Republican on this continent ever uttered the phrase "secular humanist," and of course was used by no other than monks copying holy texts to save time and ink in their divine work.
But fundamentalists have never been ones to let the facts get in their way.
Posted by: Richard Hurst | December 28, 2004 04:24 AM
Yep...I remember the pastor at our church when I was a kid —he was one of the finest human beings ever, by the way—used X. instead of "Christ".
It's ironic that a mob of people so hell-bent on heavenly absolutes knows so little about how much they have changed their own dogma.
Posted by: GodOfBiscuits | December 28, 2004 05:15 AM