Christmas

Do you like that malls/stores/etc. bring out their Christmas items, music, and decorations before the Friday after Thanksgiving?

Kaz — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:38:55 -0400

* Yes. * No. * What about Christmas Tree Shops stores, huh?

Thanksgiving Comes First

adamg — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:17:41 -0400

Some of you may recall how Jim Sullivan got fed up last year and started demanding action against stores and radio stations that get all Christmasy before Thanksgiving.

He's getting an earlier start on his campaign this year:

... Can you imagine how sour the pusses of some corporate execs would be if they received printed-out copies of blogs that say "Thanksgiving Comes First"? What if all of us called or wrote some radio station, telling the programming director that we decided to stop listening? If we all wrote a "letter to the editor" at our local papers, we could definitely expect some to be printed. ...

Globe to readers: You poor, pathetic losers, however do you live with yourselves?

adamg — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:28:01 -0500

Good Lord: The Globe rubs our faces in the fact that its staffers are on better Christmas-card lists than we are:

You may not have received Christmas and other holiday cards from the likes of Caroline Kennedy, Bob Kraft, NASCAR, and the Red Sox -- but we did.

Well aren't you special? Thanks to Bostonist for pointing out this cheery slide show - and wondering if maybe Globies are trying to compensate for the fact that they aren't really on all that many cool lists (Clinique? They list a card from Clinique as something to be proud of?).

Best Christmas story of the season

adamg — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:17:28 -0500

Set aside a few minutes and just read it.

Deval Patrick to get ensnared in Jamaicway holiday-light issue

adamg — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:15:51 -0500

WBUR reported this morning that City Councilor John Tobin will ask Gov. Patrick to require the guy with the 500,000 lights to hire a police detail.

The station quoted Tobin as saying it would be just terrible if somebody were hit by a fast-moving car on the Jamaicaway/Arborway while stopped to gawk at the brighter-by-the-year Castle. Tobin said he asked Dominic Luberto to hire a detail, but that Luberto refused, saying he's already given the city its largest Christmas display. Because the road is a state parkway, it would be up to Patrick or State Police to force the issue.

'We have to put down fifty elves every year due to big corporate interests'

adamg — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:14:39 -0500

So you're playing one of Santa's elves in a store window during an Inman Square midnight-madness sales event - the night of a godawful snowstorm. You just might really get into it.

Santas in Speedos; People with pillows

adamg — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:54:05 -0500

Photo after photo of the Santas in Speedos run (even more). Even posts video.

Maria Varmazis took part in a flash-mob pillow fight on the Common:

Only in Gloucester

adamg — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:56:26 -0500

Christmas tree made of lobster traps.

Truth in advertising

adamg — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:45:02 -0500

Bri reports that Hood's Sugar Cookie Eggnog actually tastes like sugar cookies:

... To be specific, it tastes like one of those preservative-filled, made-in-1987, extruded-from-a-vat sugar cookies you buy in 7-11 at 2AM because you're too tired to remember just how awful they actually are. ...

Do red suits and white beards excite you?

adamg — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:53:17 -0500

Look! Boston Santa flash mob, Dec. 9! Via MetaBoston.

And for you minimalists, don't forget the Santas in Speedos run on Dec. 15.