SEASON OF DREAD

It starts earlier every year. The cutesy, pervasive music. Red, white and green decorations festooning everything in sight. Endless seasonally-themed television adverts. Yes, I'm talking about the Christmas season and today marks the first time this year that I have seen Christmas-related TV ads, thirteen days before Halloween, for fuck's sake! Now begins the slow torture of the holidays being shoved down my throat for the next two-and-a-half months since the bombardment really doesn't end until after New Year's Day. I'll bear it, but I sure as shit will not be grinning.