It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas #2,312

Added on 23 December 2008

Day Something of the Christmas holiday. The days are all blending seamlessly into one. A hideous melange of hyper kids, awful music, crowds of desperate shoppers and continuous loops of Wham! and Macca and Alvin & The Chipmunks. Holy Crap! New plan. When I’m King, I’m going to change...

Another Christmas Song Polemic

Added on 21 December 2008

In a hundred years from now my biographers will describe the incident that happened today at 1:32 in the local supermarket in the following manner. It was a Sunday like any other final Sunday before Christmas. Complete Hell. Lindsay’s kids were driving him nuts, and the happy facade which he ...

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas #7 (School Holidays Day One)

Added on 19 December 2008

Yesterday was Day One of the school holiday. At the start of the day the three of us - me, One of Two and Two of Two - sat down at a meeting to discuss the day’s targets, in line with the recommendations laid out in the Report Into Running A Happy Family Life which we commissioned from KPMG fo...

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas #6

Added on 18 December 2008

Went Christmas shopping last night. Every single shop we went into, every single shop, had Last Christmas playing on a continuous loop. We were out for three hours or so, and must have heard Last Christmas close on four thousand, three hundred and fifty-seven times. I feel that my brain has melded w...

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas #5 (More Weird Shit That You Sing Every Year Without Thinking About It)

Added on 17 December 2008

It was the school carol concert last night, and this evening the one for the office where I have to play the guitar. Eight days until Christmas, and Carol Overload has set in. I’m ready for January. I’m ready to set off fireworks during Silent Night. When I’m King, I’m going ...