Thanksgiving Nears

Everyone, quick, put up a post complaining about how the "holiday season" starts earlier and earlier every year, and you just can't fucking stand listening to Christmas music before Thanksgiving! Have we no shred of decency left? What about the Constitution!

I've never understood this obsession. Christmas music sucks, yes, but it also sucks in the pre-Christmas period when, I'm sure, the same people would be horrified to note that it wasn't being played. It's also tough to argue that Christmas music sucks more than whatever music the store would otherwise play. Given the choice, I'd favor year-round Christmas music in all stores, if only because it would piss off so many people who should be buying ipods.

Once dissatisfaction with a given meme reaches a certain fever pitch, I generally begin to wish for its continued centrality. I initially favored pulling the plug on Terry but ultimately was rooting for tubal reinsertion.

Schiavo is a meme, true; really, though, all memes are Schiavo.