Premature Christmas

First Jason's Deli on Friday, and now Starbuck's today - the damn Christmas stuff is already out. We've barely made a dent in our pile of Halloween candy. Why the hell do they have to race to get Christmassed so fast? Are people going to forget to have a boring office party and have Jason's cater it? Is there a chance they won't buy coffee during their shopping excursions in the December cold?

As is not unusual, Rabbit sums it up perfectly.

complaining about the unsightly premature Christmas ejaculate that’s spewed about the landscape by early November is well nigh cliché at this point. But I say fuck the critics! A million monkeys typing op ed pieces on a million typewriters wouldn’t be enough ink and paper and key-pounding for this lamentable state of affairs. It’s bad enough that Target and Walmart and Costco and the fucking mall roll out the twinkly red and green shit and Santas and elves right after knocking down the fake cobwebs and corn cobs and crappy ghost sheets of Halloween...
They’re stealing the magic of Christmas from us. Now granted, Christmas has a limited amount of magic to offer. Buying a little Charlie Brown tree and putting your three ornaments on it. Having some egg nog and a cookie for the first time. Unwrapping a wee gift from a friend, something small that says, “I know you so well that I recognized this hamster that sings ‘Kung Fu Fighting’ immediately as something you would treasure always.”