naughty and nice. there could be some lumpy shit in my stocking for my lack of good deeds this year. last year at this time, there were many michigan-ites here. and we were playing some crazy board games. and we were running up and down between LA and SD, sleeping in various apartments. this year, we have a video game bunker in my mom's room, set up with two blankets apiece and sopranos, second season to pass out to when the sun eventually rises. christmas eve is about family time from six to ten pm, followed by lots of "what are you doing" phone calls. i'm trying to recall the last time we had just christmas with the family family. can't do it. our christmas' are usually just another typical day with some extra trimmings and more food on the side. but i like it that way. unpretentious holidays are nice.



does anyone have good santa claus jokes? i feel like there must be some good santa jokes.



how does it feel to be someone working on christmas? the biggest holiday of the year, and you're working. i feel for the restaurants, the taco shops, the grocery and video stores that have to stay open (although blockbuster closed early.....lazy bastards). do holidays come too often so that we are totally unappreciative of the true meaning of "holiday?" it should be a break from the drudgery of normal life. there should be mass jollification. i wonder statistically, what day of the year it is that the most americans don't have to work. christmas? new year's? labor day? i'm feeling for the people who have to be slumming during the so called "family time." power to the industrious people.



i read about some dude who has been the "jewish santa" for the neighborhood kids for the last couple of years. what the hell is that? the jewish santa. he said that he does it for the kids because they feel left out when they don't get gifts on christmas. i mean, it's cool, give the poor kids gifts and everything, do whatever you need to do to make the little tykes happy. but do you have to be the "jewish santa?" doesn't that defeat the whole ideology behind your religion? the melting pot, great ain't it?



and seriously, can unproductivity be a lifestyle? i think it can. i'm closing in on using it as an occupation, but that would involve making actual money. and as long as that remains a foreign concept to me, i'll have to designate unproductivity as a lifestyle and not a creedo, purpose or occupation.