Last nite in NYC it was 65 degrees and the Grinch was on

[soleft]

Summer later and later - Xmas earlier and earlier

Getting smashed between Global Warming (Corporate Greed and capitalism run amok) and the Juggernaut of Crass Consumerism (Corporate Greed and capitalism run amok)

I am a conservative when it comes to the holiday season - I want it starting AFTER Thanksgiving and I want it cold dammit.

I wonder how the Religious Right will feel when one day instead of bitching about people saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas - the season will begin on Oct. 1st and the most common heard phrase will be Happy Fourth Quarter.

[Crankie Avalon]

1. Really?

I guess I must've missed it while watching "Rome" on HBO. :shrug:

"You're a mean one, Missster Grinch..."

[babylonsister]

2. I imagine the retail industry might be a bit nervous

about the coming holiday season. Let's see; do I buy gifts or do I heat my house?

[HereSince1628]

3. Friday it was in the 60's here, this am it was 31 F at the garage.

Just wait you'll get yours.

[Todd B]

4. And Faux had a special on Global Warming!

Hell certainly *has* frozen over, yikes!

I saw commericials for the Grinch and I just had to sigh.. how long until we start getting non stop marathons of "A Christmas Story" and "Scrooged" (no offense to those movies, because I love them), but it's just a sure fire sign of the holidays a comin'!

[catmandu57]

5. Buy buy buy

and then buy some more, get out the plastic and buy more. The earliest I've ever seen a christmas toy advertised was 1984, sometime in the middle of September they started commercials for a toy called casey it was some kind of tape recorder geared towards kids.
They had the grinch on starting Friday, and ran it every night of the weekend.

[soleft]

6. I think they're lighting the Rock Ctr tree a week earlier too

[Dogmudgeon]

7. A local Philly radio station is playing all Christmas music now

Last year it started on Black Friday ... this year, on All Saint's Day (November 1).

On the other hand, we are now just past peak with the Autumn colors. Biological Autumn was only four weeks late this year.

It's nice to listen to some holiday music every now and then, but this is just getting weird.

This is possibly going to be the last year that the Religious Right can bitch about "Happy Holidays" with full throat and easy smugness. People are getting fed up with their nonsense -- it's far more obnoxious than even a news frenzy over Mike Newdow, or the dead-blonde-of-the-week. I'm waiting for someone who is willing to appear in front of a live TV camera tell them to shut their whining holes.

Now, wouldn't THAT be a perfect Holiday present?

--p!

[starroute]

8. I can't say I miss frigidly cold Novembers and Decembers

My 1950's childhood is full of memories like the time my father took me to see the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade but we left before it even got to us because it was too cold to endure. Or when they took our 2nd grade class to see Santa and the line was so long we spent what must have been half an hour waiting outside in probably 15 degree weather.

Putting aside all the other problems with global warming, I'm just as happy to have the real winter weather set in between Xmas and New Year's, the way it's tended to do lately.

[bumblebee1]

9. Happy Fourth Quarter?

Isn't that what the stockbrokers on Wall Street wish each other on Oct 1? Maybe it's what the CEO and other corporate officers wish each other.

[bumblebee1]

10. I have to agree with you there, soleft.

I'm the same way too. I'm not ready to think abut Christmas until Dec 1. My husband may put up the lights on the house around Thanksgiving, but they are not plugged in until Dec. 1. One of my neighbors put up Christmas lights on his tree in the front yard.

[Javaman]

11. Soon, if the ad execs get their way, it will be a holiday everyday! n/t