In the air there’s a feeling of Christmas.
At least, that’s what Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and every other variation of Mart would have me believe by shoveling Christmas shit down my throat with the grace of a narcoleptic figure skater the second I walk into the store.
This past weekend while I was at Wal-Mart my mind almost imploded when my eyes were raped by the sheer quanitity of Christmas merchandise. What the hell? It’s not even Halloween yet, and they’re already busting out the gyrating Santa Clause? There’s a strict rule about dancing Santa’s, and it pretty much states that I don’t have to deal with them between the months of January and November. Ever since I finally figured out he wasn’t real, I’ve been real down on Santa.
Speaking of dancing santa…think about that for a moment. Think of all the thousands of man-hours put into that. The craftsmen required to build the plastic casing, the materials that went into manufacturing it, and the tiny motors that drive the gyration and gears that move the jaw. Then there’s power sources and the chemical composition of the whole thing to think of. Thousands of these dancing santas are manufactured and shipped all around the United States every year. Think of all the money spent on the promotion and advertisement of these dancing santas. The boxes they are shipped in even. Think how much money that is. You could feed an impoverished nation with that money. I hope your dancing Santas were worth the price of an African nation’s youth, you demonic corporate bastards.
Think how mind-bogglingly complicated that dancing santa is. If you gave me the schematics and all the parts, I can guarantee you I would never be able to build it. Not in a million years. The highest levels of human intellectual ability are being turned to making dancing santas. DANCING FUCKING SANTAS. Does anyone else see how absurd this is? THIS KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT.
Alright, what the hell am I doing. I should be doing my Calculus and Physics homework so I don’t flunk my senior year and manage to destroy the past decade of (sort of) hard work.