Oh...

À propos of the post before last, "Relax, nobody died," turns out to be not totally true. The store itself died. Fairly quickly. It started out gangbusters, with all sorts of cool merchandise, but the shelves started emptying, and within a little over a year it closed. Bummer

The war on "Christmas"

Meaning the one run by the stores. Not the real Christmas, the one God runs. If you, too, would like to...maybe not declare war on commercial Christmas, but even dial it back a little, you might be interested in a web site to which we were recently alerted: The Advent Conspiracy . I've only just begun to explore it, but I like what these guys are doing. They're swimming upstream. That's what they're doing.