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Dennis,

 DK> Christmas seems empty and nihilistic to me, as if the visual forms are
 DK> still present, but the substance isn't there.  I tell people who ask me
 DK> what to get them, to get me nothing, because the whole
 DK> commercialisation of Christmas turns it into a chore, a grind, an
 DK> obligation and little more.

  I tell them that "Santa heard I was good...he laughed so hard that
he peed and pooped all over himself...so, he's not coming to my place". 

Daryl

... Agnostic, dyslexic, insomniac: Lies awake, wondering if there IS a dog.
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