Did you hear about the dyslexic devil-worshipper who sold his soul to santa?
The christmas lights are all turned on and I for one feel better.
The absence of daylight in winter makes me crazy. I wake up in the morning and I have to turn the light on to get dressed. (Or ocassionally I fail to get up, because my subconscious is convinced that since the room is still dark, I'm not supposed to be awake yet.) Then I work a nine to five job, which means that when I leave work it is once again dark outside. I realise they have it worse in Norway, but still... I miss the sun.
I honestly need things like colourful lights and gingerbread lattes to get me through the winter. So do a lot of other people. There's a reason so many major religions have light-based festivals at this time of year and I'm glad I live in a fairly multicultural society, where I can coast through a good chunk of the year in a glow of Diwamukkmas lights.
So basically, if you are one of those people who likes to complain about how "they get out the christmas decorations earlier and earlier each year", I'd like to offer you a festive mug of shut the hell up. I need those lights; they're pretty and I hope they stay up till March. So there, Scrooge!
Anyway, all this is by way of drawing your attention to the rather odd Christmas lights on Bold Street. One of the displays consists of a pair of stylised stars and a couple of... I'm honestly not sure. Upside down cornucopias, maybe? Anyway, they really look like horns and their positioning on the display means that it reminds me of nothing so much as a baphomet.
When I saw the display last year, I took it as a subtle joke relating to 2004 being dubbed by the LCC as Year of Faiths, (faiths including Satanism, apparently,) but it's still there in 2005, so make of it what you will. It's moved further up Bold street this year, though. It used to be outside Starbucks, so I guess that for 2006 Starbucks is officially non-satanic. *phew*
Like I said before, I need their gingerbread lattes.
The absence of daylight in winter makes me crazy. I wake up in the morning and I have to turn the light on to get dressed. (Or ocassionally I fail to get up, because my subconscious is convinced that since the room is still dark, I'm not supposed to be awake yet.) Then I work a nine to five job, which means that when I leave work it is once again dark outside. I realise they have it worse in Norway, but still... I miss the sun.
I honestly need things like colourful lights and gingerbread lattes to get me through the winter. So do a lot of other people. There's a reason so many major religions have light-based festivals at this time of year and I'm glad I live in a fairly multicultural society, where I can coast through a good chunk of the year in a glow of Diwamukkmas lights.
So basically, if you are one of those people who likes to complain about how "they get out the christmas decorations earlier and earlier each year", I'd like to offer you a festive mug of shut the hell up. I need those lights; they're pretty and I hope they stay up till March. So there, Scrooge!
Anyway, all this is by way of drawing your attention to the rather odd Christmas lights on Bold Street. One of the displays consists of a pair of stylised stars and a couple of... I'm honestly not sure. Upside down cornucopias, maybe? Anyway, they really look like horns and their positioning on the display means that it reminds me of nothing so much as a baphomet.
When I saw the display last year, I took it as a subtle joke relating to 2004 being dubbed by the LCC as Year of Faiths, (faiths including Satanism, apparently,) but it's still there in 2005, so make of it what you will. It's moved further up Bold street this year, though. It used to be outside Starbucks, so I guess that for 2006 Starbucks is officially non-satanic. *phew*
Like I said before, I need their gingerbread lattes.
posted by Essy at 12:05 pm
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