Just two weeks until Christmas, y’all. If you celebrate Christmas, of course. One of the unintended and actually positive side-effects of the commercialization of Christmas is that it kind of seems to add energy and excitement to an otherwise kind of dismal time of year. Fall’s just about over, winter is coming, the weather is miserable. Seasonal affective disorder, which I used to just think was a joke psychologists used to make “SAD” an acronym, is a real thing and probably has been for time immemorial. What better to lift you out of the doldrums than cheerful music, smiling faces, and horrible traffic anywhere near a shopping center? Okay, that last one sucks. But how about all the uplifting commercials? Christmas movies? I don’t care you are, Christmas Vacation is one of the funniest movies ever made. And who wouldn’t love Santa Claus or the CocaCola polar bears?
Christmas serves another purpose other than the ones Christians use to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ/appropriation of Saturnalia. For non-partakers in the religious part, it’s a nice respite from bad weather and darkness nearly 12 hours a day, and an excuse to drink egg nog, which is pretty good. Jingle bells, indeed.
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- So that new coach Charlotte hired that I was telling you about? He’s not a soccer coach, he’s a gaelic football coach. The two games aren’t THAT different, other than in one you’re allowed to use your hands. It does beg the question, though: what the hell is Charlotte doing?
- Ottawa Fury loanee Maxime Crépeau probably won’t be back in the USL Championship next year, as he was traded to Vancouver over the weekend.
- Georgia is getting another professional club in USL League One, this time in Statesboro. I know two things about Statesboro: it’s where Georgia State University is, it’s the name of one of my favorite Allman Brothers songs, and it’s chock full of mosquitoes. I guess that’s three things.