I have been Rudolphed, Charlie Browned, and Frostied nearly half to death this Yuletide. The ubiquitous din of treacly carols, the forced bonhomie of the company Christmas party, and the nauseating swetness of this bloody holiday is enough to cause insulin shock. So i’ve come up with a party idea to cut some of the cuteness: AntiChrist-mas! Why should the good guys get all the fun?
I’m inviting some friends over Christmas Eve to watch The Omen and* Rosemary’s Baby*. I’m serving Stewed Flesh of Sinners (Texas chili), devil’s food cake, and sangria.
Hmmm, an X-Massacre, or Halloween in December! Sounds smashing. I’d ask to crash the party but will be away in a country that will hopefully be more muted in their celebrations than the joyous folks in the USA. “If you don’t like it, leave!,” they say. Righty then, I’ll get me coat!
I think you need a upside-down christmas tree (all dead) with black tinsel on it. Instead of giving gifts, you just randomly steal stuff from your guests. That and you have christmas carols playing very softly and backwards. All of the food would have to be barbequed as well.
Back when I wasd an active Scout in Denmark, I used to hang out a lot at the “New Hedeby” campsite (my then-current GF did as well), a scouting centre with a Viking theme - reconstructed Viking houses, crafts, saga themes etc.
The adult scoutmasters voulunteering on the campsite would gather for winter Solstice (“Juleblot”, lit. “Yule sacrifice”), where strong beer would be quaffed from horns, inordinate amounts of food consumed and at midnight, we’d gather on a hill to foretell the future for the campsite by rolling a wagon wheel downhill and see which side it ended up on… As for more merriment, suffice it to say that Danish Scouts are co-ed.
It felt so - deliciously bad - to celebrate in a hall decorated with Norse religious symbols and have people read from some of the old poems.
I have a feeling that most American Boy Scouts probably would feel a bit out of place
Festivus is a fine alternate holiday, but I’m proposing an Antichrist-mas–that is, a reversal of Christmas to celebrate the birth of Jesus’s opposite number, the Antichrist, hence the demonic food and watching “The Omen.”
Still, I’m up for Feats of Strength and the Airing of Grievances. Let me get my aluminum pole…
