Finally, I have caved to the pressures of the Christmas shopping season and have decided that the time was right to give in and just get my damn tree out of storage and put it up already. I mean, yeah, yes, I own a fake Christmas Tree, which is like, bad and evil. There’s the whole thing about me being an athiest and why should an athiest celebrate Christmas? Well, duh, because I like getting free stuff. Plus, isn’t it really a secular shopping holiday anyway? Yep.
Anyway, photos:
Yeah. Well. I never said I could afford a very nice fake Christmas Tree, did I?
This is looking from my couch — see my laptop? it isn’t on my lap — at the wall and the shelf-unit the tree is on. Notice that fragments of Hogwarts — the parts which broke off this weekend — are currently awaiting reconstruction next to a mini-statue of the Dark Lord of the Sith.
I heart your tree. Looks way better with the blue linus blanket. Yay!
Comment by a.geisha — November 27, 2006 @ 9:31 pm
As someone who works retail, I can agree with 100% certainty that Christmas is a secular holiday. No matter what the asshole Christian fundies say. Considering how stupid people act (just read any newspaper reporting on events of Black Friday), I can’t see how anyone could disagree.
It’s basically like Halloween: a holiday, deep with tradition and important religious meaning, that’s been transformed into an excuse to give lots of free crap to kids.
Comment by Dan Carlson — November 27, 2006 @ 10:16 pm
Well, I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s deteriorated into an excuse to buy heaps of shit.. I’d say that its religious significance is very much null and void (to myself anyway), but it is a time the whole family tends to get together, get mushy and actually put a few days aside to just hang out……. which is a bonus as far as Im concerned.
Comment by tmz_99 — November 27, 2006 @ 10:42 pm
omigod. You are Charlie Brown. That explains so much.
(wait, does this mean I’m Lucy? Or is Broadsheet?)
Comment by zenchick — November 28, 2006 @ 12:47 am
That is the perfect Charlie Brown tree!
Know what’s worse, though? I live in Oregon… and have a FAKE tree.
Well, technically, it’s just a little decorative tree and not meant to take the place of a real tree… but, yeah.
Comment by julie — November 28, 2006 @ 3:17 am
Your tree is actually more robust than mine, but it gives me comfort to know that we have the same taste.
Comment by anger hangover — November 28, 2006 @ 9:01 am
Love the Charlie Brown tree! I’m stuck in the world of fake trees because I’m horribly allergic to pine and cedar and probably fir too, but I’m not going to find out by spending $100.
And Christmas is definitely a secular holiday. Hell, Jesus was born in April… but I get dirty looks from my Catholic Sister-in-law when I say that to her kids as they go home to “bake a birthday cake for baby jesus!” Give me Santa any day!
Comment by Summer — November 28, 2006 @ 10:04 am
This is off-topic, but where did you get that Baltimore Historic District sign? Did my tax-dollars pay for that? I don’t see any bolt holes or sure signs of thievery. It is nice. Back in HS, my sister’s bf’s name was Cullen and there is a Cullen Ave. in Dewey Beach, DE. Well not being professional thieves, we didn’t have any bolt cutters, and the sign still stands.
Comment by Danielle — November 28, 2006 @ 11:31 am
Hmmm. I’m a sucker for the tree and ornaments. I guess we all have our…own structures in our places — some are trees, some are castles:)
Comment by Becky — November 28, 2006 @ 2:28 pm
So, an atheist, a lapse Jew and an agnositc decide to put up a Christmas tree in their predominatly Orthodow Jewish neighborhood. Couldn’t have it too close to the window, because the lapse Jew didn’t want his collegues to see the tree. The atheist and the agnostic couldn’t care less.
It’s all about the presents, baby. Oh, and making the atheist’s toddler daughter happy.
And the cats.
Comment by paperback writer — November 28, 2006 @ 3:08 pm
I may be putting lights on a ficus this year, but that’s about as committed as I get… I bought the whole giant ceiling-scraping tree the first year I was in the house, and that was fun, but man was it a lot of work. Also, agreed with tmz99, except that time with my family is a bit more like purgatory…
Comment by jwer — November 28, 2006 @ 7:59 pm
I love your tree! Every year, my husband accuses me of wanting to get a “charlie brown tree” and Yes! I do really like the whole charlie brown look! After all, don’t they finally see the tree with new eyes and it’s more beautiful than the tin-foil ones?
And as a Christian – YES! Christmas is a secular holiday, or at least there is a secular Christmas, which I hope everybody who wants to celebrate, put up a tree, take what you like and leave the rest, whatever, has a great time. Peace Be With You. But trees are not really relevant to Christian Christmas – in fact almost none of the secular stuff is. A Joshua tree, an advent calander, advent wreath, those things would be….but nobody is making those from tin-foil, for which I am eternally grateful.
Comment by tea — November 29, 2006 @ 9:07 pm
Love it! I actually bought one for my brother last year! Merry Christmas.
Comment by Brunch Bird — December 22, 2006 @ 7:08 pm