I have this tradition that started with Deborah Kay… we made note of the tendency for the suicide rate to go up around the holidays and developed the idea “Don’t Let Christmas Kill You.” So every year I’d try to do a card using this theme; if I find any of those I’ll put them here… but I expanded away from these (lamish) bits into general purpose commentary on the holidays.

 

I am in fact the founder of “Xmanon”, a support group for people who are trying to give up Christmas. We don’t have the “Twelve Days of Christmas”… we have the “Twelve Steps of Christmas”.

 

♫ For the first step of Christmas, admit you have a problem… ♫

 

I’ll get into it somewhere else, I’m sure. This is about cards…

 

 

 

 

“I can’t believe you got me my own puppy!”  I want BONUS POINTS.  : )

 

 

Barbara Streisand does indeed have a nice version of Jingle Bells. Jazzy, weird even, but nice.

 

 

This year the commercials on TV all had THIN SANTAS. What the hell? The one guy looked like Owen Wilson. Remade in our own wannabe image.

 

Yes, Virginia, there IS a Santa Claus...
 

 

 

 

 

 

Sadly, though, there's no Jesus... really kinda

makes the whole thing seem sorta pointless when you think about it... but on the other hand, hey! there really IS a Santa Claus...

          at least, there was... I mean, he's dead now, and he wasn't really anything at all like in the books, but at least he wasn't fictional...you can tell your mom it'd be

                                      okay if she sent me the therapy bill... would you like some more turkey or something?

 

We have proof of the existence of Sankt Nikolaus. Well, reasonable historical proof anyway, words of his contemporaries and such. All documents on Jesus are 200 years after the fact (at least) and, let’s face it, SOUND fictional. That’s the point here. If you want my opinion, I suspect that St. Nick and Jesus have the same thing going on; real people who lived but who are NOT the guys in their respective books.

 

 

 

This particular year: September. 12th. The songs started in the malls, the displays went up. JESUS. Seriously.

 

 

 

A Thanksgiving card. I’m getting to where I like turkeys as drawing subjects.

 

 

Santa’s outsourcing. Remind me never to get involved in a complex background like this again.

 

 

 

A Halloween card. I didn’t send it to anyone, but I was really BORED on the plane.