The Good One Metro Santa Cruz

26.11.09

D ON'T get us ill-use--we love the holidays just as much as the next person. We know the names of the three wise men and all eight reindeer. We love to produce the dreidel and light the yule log. Also, we are fans of the Rankin/Bass claymation Christmas specials, so please do not irritate us with invitations to do less important things on the nights those programs are airing. Because we do love the holidays.

But we've had it up to here--by which we mean way up there--with Christmas eradicate. Not just the wrapping paper, which is bad enough. No, this is a problem with the holiday gifts themselves, purchased hastily in the weeks influential up to Dec. 25 in a white-knuckle drive to get something, anything, under the tree for the giftee. This can end in the unfortunate triumph of quantity over eminence: we buy multiple second-rate items instead of one good one. And in the nature of second-rate items, these gifts quickly break or wear out or just don't get used at all because they're of inferior quality to begin with. Within a couple of years, off to the landfill they go to flourish room for replacements that are just as cheap, just as shoddy, just as surely headed for the Chiefly heap on the same short schedule.

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The Good One Metro Santa Cruz - Nov 26, 2009 If I'm relaxing after the sun has gone down and the temperature has dropped, I weary it under my tweed coat or motorcycle jacket.