wednesday night is basketball night at RSA. starting last week, RSA rents out a middle school gym a little bit from here and lets people play some 4on4 for a couple of hours. anyways, today is obviously wednesday and so i packed up stuff at home to play ball today.
at some point i realized i forgot socks. i haven't wore socks regularly in over a month - i've been alternating between sandals and my nike free 5.0s (version 5, bitch), so i forget socks. i work fairly close to the burlington mall, so a coworker and i went there for lunch and so that i could purchase some socks.
i went to the filene's after we ate and i walked through the second floor towards the escalators. once i was closing in on the escalators in the middle of the store, i noticed them. some still in their boxes, others just resting against the guardrails, and others still on tables.
the nutcrackers.
i guess filene's is getting ready for christmas.
happy holidays?
1327-september14-2005
comments
re: lack of socks
from: Pyro403 (2005-09-14 16:10:21)
that means your feet smell on a regular basis??
re: spectral visions in time-space distortions
by the year 2143 holiday marketing periods will be broken down as such:
halloween: july 5 - august 15
thanksgiving: august 1 - october 30
christmas: february 1 - december 25
valentines day: nov 23 - jan 1
the holidays themselves will become long lost memories....glimpses in our collective unconcious of a time when, briefly, there was a societal purpose beyond the consumption of frilly streamers and brightly colored aluminum balls. october 31 will no longer be filled with candy and laughing children. "halloween" will be thought of as that period in the middle of summer when we surround ourselves with reds, oranges, and greens, and buy costumes for children even though no one quite remembers what to do with them.
incedentally, july 4th will be celebrated year round, though only in the area formally known as the "united states" will it be called independence day. everywhere else it will be referred to as "hail lord commerce" day, or in some of the more arid equatorial regions "we love you, democracy" day.
its important to note, the period between the end of december and the beginning of februrary will be free of holiday marketing because it will be reserved for behavioral reconditioning. and bright colors threaten the integrity of that process.