So I've decided to write more daylogs. I toyed with the notion of committing to a daylog every day for
2012, but quickly abandoned that thought on realizing that I can't even guarantee that I'll be
conscious every day in 2012. So.... daylog, daylog.... What have I to tell of today's activities?
Well my household enjoyed our
vegetarian Christmas (in other words our coincidental Sunday-after-
Solstice)
Holiday Feast, main course =
shiitake mushroom ravioli in a bed of
rice and
spinach, side dishes include fried
tomatoes,
sweet potato pie, homemade
cranberry sauce, and fresh fruit and strawberry sorbet for desert.
After dinner, we commenced to chatting and the topic fell on Christmas movies, the ones shown on television year after year, and how oddly secular they often seemed -- for we had variously glimpsed in the days leading up,
A Christmas Carol and
It's A Wonderful Life and
A Christmas Story, and more glances of
Santa Claus and his
elves than we thought could be squeezed into the box. Especially, we all agreed, those
Best Buy commercials with the moms (always the target women shoppers) being mean to Santa and showing him up with their superior purchases were a bit off kilter -- after all, sure, anybody with a
credit card can buy whatever the latest thing is, but Santa
gives you shit for free!! -- and why would anybody want to discourage that with wanton commercial showiness?
Presently, we all pitched out ideas for a 'Christmas special'.... mine was
A Very Gay Christmas, a story about a
homosexual couple wishing to throw a big Christmas party, but thwarted in their efforts by a grumpy, grinchy old Christian fundamentalist preacher who declares them sinners and marks their party as off-limits. All the old Christmas tropes get thrown at our fundy; being visited by the ghosts of gay Christmases past, present and future; being shown how bleak and sad the world would be without gay people; and finally being taught by Santa Claus himself that
Jesus never spoke a word against homosexuality. In a sort of reverse-
Jack Chic tract moment, our grumpy fundy would come to understand that the Bible passages generally quoted as condemnatory of gays were misinterpreted, and could as well be interpreted to bless gay love unions -- while in fact condemning those who partake in relationships 'against their nature,' thus prohibiting gays from engaging in faux
heterosexual relationships. The fundy, thus converted to the righteous position of tolerance of gays and acceptance of their gay marriage, would lead his
flock in joining the gay couples' joyous celebration of the birth of gay-tolerant Jesus.
So that's the summation of my yuletide story. Veggie vittles and a very gay Christmas special. Merry
Pandeistmas, and Reason's Greetings To All!!