'Tis the Season etc. etc.

[4thofeleven]

TV ads with a Christmas theme are starting to dominate the airwaves... I think I'm actually starting to miss the election ads - at least they only had obnoxious buzzer noises, not endless verses of 'We wish you a merry Christmas'.

One of the nice things about living in an area with a large Chinese immigrant population is that the local shopping centre has managed to resist the urge to play Christmas carols constantly from October onwards, and their Christmas decorations are rather muted. At least, I assume it's the Chinese influence; every other shopping centre I've visited in the last month is doing the standard constant loop of "The Little Drummer Boy".

Noted in the news that President Bush already has Christmas decorations up in the White House... I was always taught that one doesn't put up decorations until the start of Advent - is the tradition different in the US, or does the White House just follow the lead of shopping centres and decorates as early as humanly possible?

Comments

[sunnyskywalker]

Has he really? Great, now the White House is a shopping mall. You'd think they'd at least have the good taste to wait until December - but maybe it's some sort of pose to show how all-American the government is, or something.

Either way, I'm already sick of the ads. Especially the ones with snow. As if most of the population in California lives in snow-receiving areas. (Okay, plenty drive to see the snow in Tahoe, I suppose, but still. The coast and the Central Valley are not exactly known for their good skiiing!)

[4thofeleven.livejournal.com]

Advertisers here have, after a mere two hundred years of European settlement, finally begun to accept that snow may not be the most logical choice of motif in a country where Christmas falls in the middle of summer and it doesn't snow even in winter anyway...

[sunnyskywalker]

Your ad people and our ad people must have drinks together in New England in December or something. They really ought to make more ads with scenery like this and this. (Well, maybe without the space aliens. Though that could be cool too.)