Utterly mundane, completely pointless, and I’m not really certain why.
My neighbor has put up xmas decor in his yard. An inflatable santa and frosty the snowman among othe miscellaneous bits. Frosty is decked out in hunting garb (camouflage patterned vest, blaze orange ball cap) and Santa has a matching camouflage patterned outfit instead of his traditional red(he retained his traditional hat though).
This, irritates, me. I don’t know why, it’s not logical or rational, it just does.
Wish he’d left Frosty out of it and found an inflatable Santa in a Panzer (video) instead. That I could appreciate.
What xmas decor do You wish they would make and mass market?
Check Amazon for “ceramic lighted christmas tree”. They have plastic “flames” that stick out at all angles, like a hedgehog. I wish someone would come out with one where all the flames stuck straight up - like a real flame.
Inflatables have just about covered every conceivable Christmas variation, but I haven’t seen “homeowner climbing a ladder to put lights on the eaves”, to be followed by “homeowner falling off of the ladder…”
(Come to think of it, I wonder if anyone makes an inflatable tree for indoor use.)
I don’t go in for Christmas decorations, but if I found an inflatable Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, with a wild-eyed, murderous expression on his face, carrying an ax, and dressed as Santa Claus, I’d buy that sucker, put it in my front yard mid-October for Halloween, and leave it there until mid-January. The bigger the better.
Santa Xmas tree ornament with mask:
(Sorry, I can’t get any kind of link to work for this. It’s an ornament of Santa’s nearly naked backside with face-mask over his ass.)
Hey, thanks for reminding me: years back National Lampoon magazine had an op-ed(?) piece listing how E.T.'s story was similar to the Christ Child’s – strange lights in the sky, people in charge hated his existence, stuff like that. At the end, the author asked Does that sound like someone you’ve heard of? Yes? You should! it’s the story of Frankenstein’s monster.
My favorite part of all holidays is walking the 'hood afterwards (and sometimes before) and seeing all of the inflatables sitting in sad dejected heaps because the homeowners couldn’t be bothered to keep them inflated. Yes, I’m jaded.
