There’s something vaguely obscene about seeing Christmas decorations this late in the post-holiday season. I was walking past the Grove shopping center last night and had to avert my eyes when I came to the giant Christmas trees and rows of candy cane lights. It reminds me of what the people in the occupied countries of Europe must have felt after the war ended but there were still swastika flags and other Nazi regalia everywhere they looked. C’mon people, THE WAR IS OVER, time to get rid of the vestiges of our month-long Occupation! Maybe we should topple the huge shopping center trees with the same zeal that the Russians had when they knocked down all those statues of Lenin after the Soviet Union collapsed.
Just as bad are the dead Christmas trees strewn all over the streets even though the city of Los Angeles has set up many drop-off points and has begged people not to throw them out with their regular garbage. Most still contain sad wisps of tinsel and remnants of Grandma’s broken ornaments. I guess it’s appropriate that the refuse of Christmas matches many of our bleak emotional states this time of year.
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