Aint that enough to get me into the holiday spirit!

Bah humbug.

Christians, enjoy this holiday moment delivered by your Savior.

Did he mean “for reasons all too obvious”? By the way, hope you all have a most happy Christmas.

My childhood Christmas memories include a three-foot-diameter silver-plastic wreath with a red Styrofoam reindeer leaping through its center that my father won as a door prize at some neighborhood bar. The thing was beyond garish, way past hideous. It redefined tacky, and Pop knew it. So each December, we faithfully hung it above the couch, right below the likewise traditional/likewise low-taste aluminum-foil "Happy Holidays’’ sign. Sometimes we hung beer cans on our Christmas tree.

Mostly we did these things to tease my mother, who, we sensed, had confused Christmas with a religious occasion fraught with sacred traditions …

As an adult, with a family and living room of my own, I’ve done my best to keep those values alive. When my son, Phil, was about 2, we sent out a photo card showing him trashing a miniature manger display with a two-headed-dragon action figure.

Sacrilege? I beg your tinsel-tangled pardon. As far as celebrating the birth of Christ is concerned, the sacrilege boat sailed a long time ago – long before "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer’’ retired the label.Look at it this way: whatever its one-time significance, Christmas is largely a secular celebration reliant on packaged traditions – talking cards, inflatable lawn snowmen, special-edition M&Ms – contrived to stimulate the marketplace. But why buy when you can do it yourself? Who wants to celebrate someone else’s holiday? Do it your way and steal Christmas back from the holiday

…Venture has plenty of items for that loved one on your Christmas list.

I guarantee you will be in the holiday spirit after listening to this!