Ruining the Holidays
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Fuzzy of sight and thought, my work brain was struggling to stay focused on the spreadsheet ahead of me. I just wanted my Christmas break to begin. I had been caffeinating all day to sharpen my attention but it was hardly working. My eyes fleetingly rested on the Coca Cola Zero can in front of
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Hello creatures of the night. Rocky Horror Picture Show is the sublime, weird mass freakout that so many of us voluntarily join at least once a year. Unless you’re a Virgin, then you don’t realize what you’ve been…missing. If you’ve tried to throw a special Rocky Horror event, then you might have recognized a few
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The 1984 horror film, Gremlins, is a Christmas masterpiece with few peers in its class. It has jumps, scares, singing, dog threatening, cookies, trees, chainsaws, medical experiments, headless snowmen, rogue snow plows. Yes, it really has everything. And that blender-microwave one-two shot (which meant I could never not be afraid of the carol, “Do You
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I wait all year long to watch classic Christmas movies. And I mean classic. None of that bullshit inside Hallmark jargon. Sorry, I was way forcing that quote and I didn’t pull it off very well. I just can’t help myself, I am THAT in love with real classic Christmas movies that teach us morals
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Or “The Political Dichotomy of Ebenezer Scrooge as Depicted by SJW Charles Dickens” Welcome to the holly jolly time of year when we all smile a little brighter, we all drink a little more eggnog, and we all (oh so briefly) smile at the sight of snowflakes. And while we drape our tinsel and wrap
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If you were a child of the 80s, then you likely know the tale of the silly and harassed Davis family who bought a haunted house in Lucifer Falls and then battled an evil ghost with a magic cloak. You watched Kristy Swanson (the worst actress ever) pout on a picnic blanket with cheese curls,
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I’m declaring a brand-new holiday from this year forward: THANKSTIVUS! It will be observed on the traditional Thanksgiving day. The holiday does not require decoration, but should you choose to, the thematic colors are blue and black, to symbolize the bruising of our souls by Thanksgivings of years past. Thankstivus Traditions The celebration of Thankstivus
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Thanksgiving is a pretty ugly time of year. Lots of turkey carnage. And the whole guilt over what was done to the Indians. It’s a slaughtering holiday. The weather is hideous–all brown and cold, with no excuses to get some fresh air and go for a walk. There’s some kind of ludicrous law that most
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