The Christmas Season Has Begun And is Already Going on Too Long

Russ Smith of Splice Today looks forward to the delayed end of the holiday season:

And so begins the interminable holiday slog that never ends on Jan. 2, when Christmas trees are so dry that just a touch of the needles might require a band-aid, but drags on until the middle of the month. I'm in no way a Scrooge, or Grinch, and Christmas Eve is my favorite day of the year—a weird but delightful suspension of time when everything seems perfect—but the aftermath is such a dull, and generally unproductive time, that I often long for a fast-forward of time.

Whole bit here.

Comments

[R C Dean]

The lack of an alt-text on that picture is racist.

[P Brooks]

Get out there and SPEND, goddammit!

America needs your help.

[Jeff P]

What an insufferable whiner.
The past way to prep for post-whatever depression is plan stuff for the weeks after christmas. Go to a winter festival. Go sledding. Do something other than mope that it isn't christmas anymore.

[Rub My Balls]

It's always Christmas.

[radar]

Sonny Liston knows who's been bad or good. And if you've been bad, he's going to beat you to a pulp.

[twv]

Modern Christmas, like ancient Judaism, is the institution that supplies its own critique. That is its main (or sole) claim to our respect.

And no, I did not read the linked article. I judged Christmas "too long" and "too idiotic" when I was 16. Now, umpteen years later, I've grown beyond fretting about this nonsense. Haven't we all? Move on, people; nothing to see.

[anarch the Christian]

Christmas lasts until January 6.

[Jeff P]

If anyone cares, my Holiday Card from a couple years ago explained why the season has gotten so miserable...

http://www.baddaystudio.com/harbinger.html

[Sam Grove]

Instead of being irritated, let your mind tune much of it out.

You don't have to make the world's schedule your own.

[RuthenianCowboy]

Some of us celebrate Christmas on January 7th.