To TH's hot neighbor,


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Video matches TH so well it's almost surreal.

Rumours the lighter has a tiny video camera inside are totally unprovable.

Merry Christmas!

We're three weeks into Advent now, and my kids are working on their Jesse Tree. We've got all the presents already under the tree, and we listen to Sting's If On a Winter's Night, Handel's Messiah, and Sufjan Steven's and Pete Seeger's Christmas albums.

I remember when we were kids we used to write our letters to Santa and then our parents would take them to the fire, hold them over the flames and the updraft would whisk them up the chimney. Don't ask me why we did this, but maybe it had something to do with Santa coming down the chimney, so we thought the North Pole was on top of the house or something? I don't know, but that's what we did.

Also, it's lovely to see on Christmas Eve the news reporting on Santa's progress, with some guy dressed in a Santa suit shown "setting out from the North Pole" in a sled drawn by deer. Great for the kids, and of course the newscaster always advises kids to get to bed early, so that Santa will see they're being good and leave presents. Ulterior motives, huh? :finger:

I figured Santa out when I was four or so snooping for presents in my parents' closet. I found a dank Lego thing, and on Christmas Day it was marked 'from Santa'. That was the last time I trusted anyone.

Santa, that stupid fucking Elf thing, and a bunch of other Christmas nonsense are all paranoia inducing mechanisms that are targeted for children, and usually come with resentment and anger in the later stages. Some pretty fucked up ideals that got intertwined into the origin of what Christmas is supposed to be.

Was it a saxophone? :laughing:
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Aww, and I didn't get you anything. Awkwaaaaaaard.