Word: holidayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although The Santa Corporation ignored everyone and kept on producing as though the holiday were not over, no one outside the company celebrated Christmas any more except on one day. And even then, they only exchanged presents--they would not take any from The Corporation...
...that no one ever had to work, and it became Christmas every day of the year. The company's sales of metal-and-plastic Christmas trees then rose very high, because in a land where it was always Christmas living trees had a way of turning brown before the holiday was over...
...land became choked and glutted with the unwanted and untouched presents that kept coming out of The Santa Corporation's plants by the truckload. And while the company kept spewing out holiday paraphernalia like a merry-go-round with no brakes, the Clausists erected a tremendous monument outside the gates of the comapny's main factory. They built high and strong an image of Santa Claus, the long-dead manic sleigh jockey who had become their symbol. And on the pedestal of the figure, they inscribed a long-forgotten and poorly-understood poem that one of the ancients had written...
Walking down the streets of New York City at Thanksgiving, I heard the pleasantly annoying clang of Salvation Army bells. In my mind, those bells signal official recognition that the annoying onslaught of activities that falls under the rebric of "holiday festivities" is about to begin...
...right off I will admit that I enjoy Christmas much more than Hannukah. I hate holidays that change dates from year to year; it is confusing enough to have Massachusetts celebrate Veterans Day three weeks later than the rest of the country, but Hannukah is a bit much. The only thing the holiday satisfies is my pyromaniac tendency--being the second of five kids, my opportunities to light the Hannukah candles may be limited now, but for a while there, I had the market cornered. For quite a while, you see, my older sister was afraid to light a match...