tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-95605862024-03-13T16:49:10.168-07:00Christmas ResistanceOfficial Blog of the Christmas Resistance MovementNina Paleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03446697447012807931noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-23661150491588282402022-12-06T09:28:00.000-08:002022-12-06T09:28:09.482-08:00Scrooge We Ain't<p>β Reductress has this handy quiz to help us sort out the season this year.</p>
<p><a href="https://reductress.com/post/quiz-do-you-hate-christmas-in-an-anti-capitalist-way-or-in-a-scrooge-way/" target="_blank">QUIZ: Do You Hate Christmas in an Anti-Capitalist Way or in a Scrooge Way?<br/>
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Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-5477712632152973672015-12-25T12:35:00.000-08:002015-12-25T12:37:31.221-08:00The Grinch Who Blogged Christmas<a href="http://explosm.net/comics/4156/"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-65yhAQCpyVM/VnkB6tYH5rI/AAAAAAAC_no/NbSJxFFpS1s/w346-h615-p/grinch.png" width=346 height=615 alt="Cyanide & Happiness #4156" title="Cyanide & Happiness #4156"/></a>Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-59135109525217762112015-11-27T23:05:00.000-08:002015-11-27T23:58:48.680-08:00#OptOut...side<p><a href="http://theonion.com/article/42-million-dead-in-bloodiest-black-friday-weekend--30517">
<b>42 Million Dead In Bloodiest Black Friday Weekend On Record</b><br/>
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<p>β I joined the #OptOutside movement this year, but unfortunately I had to dodge all the shoppers on their way to and from the carnage. Welcome to the 2015 Xmas Resistance, and Happy Buy Nothing Day!</p>Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-66517923320559403452014-12-14T01:21:00.001-08:002014-12-14T01:21:00.338-08:00Bill O'Reilly's Christmas<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kNRLLxAOGx4" width="459"></iframe>Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-28885831759595712062014-11-27T12:21:00.002-08:002014-11-28T15:04:52.927-08:002014 Underway<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://blackoutforhumanrights.tumblr.com/">Blackout Black Friday</a></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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β Another year, another round of <a href="http://www.blackfridayprotests.org/actions">Black Friday protests</a>. So much to do that <i>isn't</i> shopping, hooray! Happy Buy Nothing Day.<br />
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<b>Update 1:</b> <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Protest-prompts-BART-systemwide-delays-Friday-5922856.php">Friday in Oakland</a>.<br />
<b>Update 2:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=571862129614350">Friday in Times Square</a>.<br />
<br />Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-18861574493508621492013-12-25T09:48:00.000-08:002013-12-25T09:48:24.528-08:00A Last-Minute Stocking- and Bra-Stufferβ We've survived another non-shopping season. The biggest surprise for me was that relentless self-promoter Sarah Palin didn't saturate the airwaves with this year's "War on Christmas" epic, <i>Good Tidings and Great Joy</i>. I think she was caught flatfooted when her Fox News colleague Megyn Kelly stole the show with just a little bit of dog-whistling.<br />
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Fortunately, Dan Savage took the time to review Ms. Palin's book, or at least the introduction where we learn that Peace on Earth involves buying guns and admiring one's own breasts. Read his book review, <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/good-grief-and-great-tits/Content?oid=18503580">Good Grief and Great Tits</a>, it's the reason for the season!Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-5412799783746847472013-12-21T20:18:00.002-08:002013-12-21T20:18:50.938-08:00Spugs Unite!β I don't know how we missed this, but last year Treehugger had an item about the <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/culture/brief-history-society-prevention-useless-giving.html">Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving</a> on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. The group was known as SPUG for short, and its members, Spugs. Membership was bipartisan, ranging from former President Teddy Roosevelt himself to the daughter of President Woodrow Wilson.<br />
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Also around this time every year we get news items about the banning of Christmas by the Puritans. It was a different sort of celebration then, not really about buying stuff, so it's a bit out of our purview ... but here's <a href="http://www.thewire.com/national/2013/12/puritan-war-christmas-was-best-war-christmas/355705/">an especially good roundup</a> of information about that.<br />
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Finally, if you haven't seen the Christmas Resistance Movement page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChristmasResistanceMovement">on Facebook</a>, have a look-see!Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-51622601093600702722013-12-15T19:52:00.001-08:002013-12-15T23:36:04.800-08:00I'm Dreaming of a White Nicholas<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saint Nicholas of Myra</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<p>β To think that <a href="http://xmasresistance.blogspot.com/2012/12/war-is-heck.html">only a year ago</a>, Jon Stewart noted that the War On Christmas had become a rote observance, devoid of its original spiritual meaning. I expected a bit of a resurgence this year simply to promote Sarah Palin's latest dumb book, but I never expected it to actually go off the rails into a national debate over whether Santa Claus is white.</p>
<p>Much has been <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-12-2013/war-on-christmas---s--t-s-getting-weird-edition---black-santa">said</a> about this nonsense over the last few days, but I'd like to focus on the man depicted here, St. Nicholas of Myra. This image is from his Wikipedia page, and I'm surprised there haven't been edit wars to replace it with a lighter-skinned depiction. The real Nicholas lived in what is now Turkey and was a <a href="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/real-face/">swarthy</a> man, though as his fame spread northward, the paintings showed ever-lighter skin. (I imagine it must be hard to maintain a tan at the North Pole.)</p>
<p>Nicholas is one of the most popular Saints there is, even for folks who aren't Catholic or Orthodox. That's because he was by all accounts a vigorous champion of the poor and disadvantaged. Hagiography tends to attribute miracles, supernatural events, and oft-told legends to Saints, which historians naturally tend to be skeptical of. (Personally, my favorite Nicholas legends are in the <a href="http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014838.html#1473433">hardboiled detective genre</a>, but these have yet to be published. Or written.)</p>
<p>One deed stands out as an original and plausible account: A poor family with three daughters could not afford a dowry for them, which meant they would most likely be sold into sexual slavery. When each of these daughters came of age, Nicholas surreptitiously delivered bags of gold, enough for their dowries.</p>
<p>This secret gift-giving has, over the centuries, morphed into a compulsory consumption potlatch ritual. The meaning has been lost. The real Nicholas would probably be called a bleeding-heart socialist by Fox News, the very network that insists he's white (and which is, of course, the primary fabricator of the mythological War On Christmas).</p>
<p>So even if you're resisting what Christmas has become, give a thought to the real Old St. Nick.</p>
<p><i>Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.</i></p>
Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-2813519334019269692013-12-10T08:24:00.003-08:002013-12-10T08:25:23.570-08:00Celebrate Without Worshipping Consumerism<p>β For the perplexed, Alternet has a nice <a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/celebrating-season-without-worshipping-consumerism">Celebrating Without Worshipping Consumerism</a> article this year. A little late for Thanksgivukkah, I'm afraid, but suitable for celebrating Christmas.</p>
<p>Or, if you're Fox News, one of those <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2010/12/11/fox-amp-friends-saturday-turns-benedict-arnold/174285">"Holiday" Celebrations</a> you hear so much about on Fox News.</p>Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-16040649459819148622013-11-23T12:28:00.002-08:002013-12-15T19:58:39.859-08:00Pre-Thanksgivingβ In the spirit of resistance, we try to hold off the madness until it's absolutely necessary, but <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-20/wal-marts-no-good-very-bad-pre-thanksgiving-week">Wal-Mart's No Good, Very Bad, Pre-Thanksgiving Week</a> is as good a preamble as any.<br />
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In the spirit of resistance, now's a good time to write <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/lte/WalmartLTE/">a letter to the editor</a> about Wal-Mart, and you might want to mention <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/kohls-target-toys-r-us-add-to-early-holiday-shopping-frenzy/2013/11/11/961a1be8-4ae4-11e3-ac54-aa84301ced81_story.html">Kohl's, Target, and Toys Backwards-R Us</a> as offenders (not as bad as Wal-Mart on failure to pay a living wage, but they are opening on Thanskgiving).Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-17750510469441541882012-12-13T09:24:00.002-08:002013-12-15T19:57:51.465-08:00War is Heck<embed allowfullscreen="true" allownetworking="all" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="#000000" flashvars="autoPlay=false" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:421733" style="display: block;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" wmode="window"></embed>
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β Say, remember the <a href="http://xmasresistance.blogspot.com/2005/12/war-on-xmas.html">War
on Christmas</a> that was such a big deal right up until 2008? This was a war declared by Fox News, with books and variety shows and whatnot, the subtext being that if you didn't get out there and spend! spend! spend! you were hurting the economy <i>and</i> attacking Jesus.<br />
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For some mysterious reason, the network backed off right around the time George W. Bush left office, so that that War on Christmas became, as Jon Stewart mentions <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-december-3-2012/the-war-on-christmas--friendly-fire-edition">up there</a>, a rote observance, devoid of all its original spiritual meaning.<br />
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As always, though, there are true believers. This year, with his network sustaining heavy losses on the economic front, General Bill O'Reilly has concentrated his offense on the cultural front of this war, so now the whole thing is the fault of <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/12/07/1301451/bill-oreilly-blames-fabricated-war-on-christmas-on-fabricated-gay-rights-agenda/">gays and abortionists</a>. So, you don't have to go out and spend so much (that might make Obama look good, after all). Just hate people, like O'Reilly does.Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-13851801995425641952012-12-09T10:12:00.001-08:002012-12-09T10:12:13.826-08:00Hammer Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://blog.ninapaley.com/2012/12/04/happy-chanukah-from-seder-masochism/">
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β Resisting compulsory consumption extends to other holidays in our multitasking, multicultural modern world. This "Reason for the Season" <a href="http://blog.ninapaley.com/2012/12/04/happy-chanukah-from-seder-masochism/">free e-card</a> is a creation of our red velvet-clad Satanta, who explains:<br />
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As promised, hereβs Judah Maccabee hammering Romans as a Chanukah e-card. Please copy and share and all that. ... Any βholidayβ gifts more lavish than sharing bits are against my principles ... </blockquote>
Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-90992108382542415162012-11-25T00:37:00.000-08:002012-11-25T00:37:04.926-08:00The Reason for the Season<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jym/8216568768/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="20121119 bay-st-xmas-tree by Jym Dyer, on Flickr"><img alt="20121119 bay-st-xmas-tree" height="320" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8204/8216568768_7e0401e9c4_n.jpg" width="240" /></a>
=v= Time for an anti-consumerist uprising where we seize the shopping carts and build a Yule tree out of them. Who's with me?<br />
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Sadly, this is not a photo of such an uprising. This is the non-ironic Christmas tree on the town square at the main street, except of course both the square and street are privatized. Basically it's a mall designed to sorta look like a neighborhood.Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-52899202577616459132012-11-21T23:25:00.000-08:002012-11-21T23:27:21.459-08:00Justice at Walmart<div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;">
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=v= Walmart workers are striking on Friday, and I'm going to take a wild guess that Friday will start <a href="http://xmasresistance.blogspot.com/2012/11/and-so-it-begins.html">four hours early</a>, on a day generally known as Thursday, or Thanksgiving, because that's when Walmart plans to open their doors for crazed mobs of shoppers.<br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Reason-for-the-Season/562642347084902">Reason for the Season</a> is a Facebook page for folks refusing to shop on Thanksgiving, which is laudable. There are of course many pages, including this one, devoted to not shopping on <strike>Black Friday</strike> Buy Nothing Day (or not shopping at all). This year, though, it seems especially important to support the Walmart workers, who are on the front lines of both the consumer frenzy and the race to the bottom.<br />
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Follow this link: <a href="http://corporateactionnetwork.org/causes/walmart">Justice at Walmart</a> to find information and events in support of Walmart strikers. Events for justice are much better than wasting money buying stuff. Enjoy!Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-65520893560883734472012-11-10T08:24:00.000-08:002012-11-10T08:32:45.883-08:00And so it begins ...<div style="text-align: left;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LtAEY6PWVxU/UJ5-tk181OI/AAAAAAAAASE/-NJDiDuLHzs/s1600/pow-love.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Something stretchy would be better." border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LtAEY6PWVxU/UJ5-tk181OI/AAAAAAAAASE/-NJDiDuLHzs/s200/pow-love.jpg" title="Something stretchy would be better." width="200" /></a></div>
=v= Walmart hopes that Americans will overcome their Thanksgiving tryptophan torpor and come stand in line for an <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-walmart-moves-black-friday-earlier-on-thanksgiving-night-20121108,0,3594145.story">8:00pm opening</a>, four hours before Buy Nothing Day, which is to say, the official start of the Christmas Resistance Holiday Non-Shopping Season.<br />
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Wondering what to wear while standing in line after filling yourself with lunchtime holiday stuffing (gotta get there first, after all)? Something to balance the practicalities of digestion with the dictates of fashion? The fine folks at <a href="http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/">People of Walmart</a> have an awesome online apparel catalog to help you decide.Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-64569042280000198852011-11-25T09:31:00.000-08:002011-11-25T10:00:03.197-08:00#OccupyBestBuy<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jym/3065555670/" title="Best Buy occupation/shanty town, 3 years ago."><img style='margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em' align=left valign=top src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3241/3065555670_e641a70756_t.jpg" width="100" height="62" alt="20081127 bnd-city-denial"></a> =v= Last night's midnight openings at big box stores have attracted encampments of people with tents who say they represent the 99%. What are their demands? For some reason the authorities haven't sent in riot police as they have elsewhere, so these groups have taken to self-policing, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/11/24/national/a233955S49.DTL">pepper spray</a> included.<br /><br />(Title notwithstanding, this happened at a <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/pepper-spray-wal-mart-competitive-shopping.html">Wal*Mart</a>, but I thought I'd spread the love around. 'Tis the season!)Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-8890273306208692222011-11-24T08:30:00.000-08:002011-11-27T21:35:13.333-08:00So Many Places Not to Shop!=v= Plans to open stores at midnight on Buy Nothing Day have prompted a <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/11/black-friday-backlash-thousands-petiton-target-to-save-thanksgiving.html">backlash</a> (and a petition with over 200,000 signatures so far), and has spread to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/black-friday-2011-toys-r-us-target-thanksgiving-hours-spark-protests/2011/11/22/gIQAW2x4lN_story.html">other stores</a> at this point. In fact I'm having trouble keeping up with which stores to boycott, so I'm pretty much going to go with all of them. You can, too!Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-20340683304537809402011-11-21T22:27:00.000-08:002011-11-21T22:38:05.055-08:00Why We Fight (Redux)Not getting into the spirit of Buy Nothing Day, 2010:<br/><br /><iframe width="425" height="355" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YOVD-m8urJU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-48244226436251253872010-12-21T20:27:00.000-08:002010-12-21T20:38:01.907-08:00Almost ... TOO quiet!=v= We've been quiet. The Powers That Be declared that the Shopping Season was starting earlier this year, because <s>Black Friday</s> Buy Nothing Day was just too darned late this year. Well, our response is to start resisting even later. That'll show 'em!<br /><br />You know who else has been quiet? All those conservative pundits who for years have been telling people to shop! shop! shop! because it's good for America. I guess they don't want things to be good for America or something? If anyone can explain this to us, please pipe up.<br /><br />Or perhaps the discussion has just gone Web 2.0 on us. There's now a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/buynothingchristmas">Buy Nothing Christmas</a> page on Facebook, and of course we're getting the inside scoop on the North Pole's appalling labor conditions from <a href="http://twitter.com/angrysantaelf">@angrysantaelf</a> over on Twitter. But if you want to make some noise here, you're welcome to. Comments are on.Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-90051146920352731592009-12-24T19:06:00.000-08:002009-12-24T19:11:51.946-08:00The Timely Times=v= Just in time for those who held off shopping until the last minute, the <i>New York Times</i> suggests we can <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/fashion/24xmas.html?pagewanted=all">"Just Say No, No, No, to the Ho-Ho-Ho"</a>. Great timing there.<br /><br />Also, for Xmas day, a boffo review for <a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/movies/25sita.html"><i>Sita Sings The Blues</i></a> (which you <i>could</i> buy, but thanks to copyleft, you aren't forced to).Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-11698616745865700352009-12-09T11:52:00.001-08:002009-12-09T11:54:23.811-08:00Comments 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0oQRZzbBCWM/SyAALmgSmaI/AAAAAAAAABU/PjJbnE_iLFM/s1600-h/20090705-taqueria-xmas-resistance.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0oQRZzbBCWM/SyAALmgSmaI/AAAAAAAAABU/PjJbnE_iLFM/s320/20090705-taqueria-xmas-resistance.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413326951413881250" /></a><br />Resistance has seldom been easier. Whaddya think?Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-3222238257083980012009-11-27T14:22:00.000-08:002009-11-27T14:36:08.035-08:00Buy Today!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0oQRZzbBCWM/SxBTeYg4ykI/AAAAAAAAABM/WfXsHivC0bg/s1600/amazero-th.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 90px; height: 89px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0oQRZzbBCWM/SxBTeYg4ykI/AAAAAAAAABM/WfXsHivC0bg/s320/amazero-th.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408914933913537090" border="0" /></a><a href="https://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd">This is the day</a>, and the fine folks at amazero.com have precisely <a href="http://www.dothegreenthing.com/amazero">the right product</a> to start off this year's Christmas Resistance Non-Shopping Season with!Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560586.post-74471145291163178112008-12-16T02:04:00.000-08:002008-12-16T02:16:06.111-08:00Santa's Cap<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0oQRZzbBCWM/SUd9jUp0faI/AAAAAAAAAAY/CLxhGm7gXoA/s1600-h/Amanita-muscaria-150x150.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0oQRZzbBCWM/SUd9jUp0faI/AAAAAAAAAAY/CLxhGm7gXoA/s320/Amanita-muscaria-150x150.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280327133908204962" border="0" /></a>=v= I was fleeing a mob of rampaging Santas and ducked into a nearby upscale department store. There was ... something different about it. They were playing Creedence Clearwater Revival instead of Christmas Carols.<br /><br />Apparently their gimmick this year is "Hippie Holidays," and there were peace signs everywhere (peace on Earth, man!), plus a tree that was festooned with VW Microbuses and, um, hallucinogenic mushroom ornaments. This reminded me of a rather loopy letter we got when we first put the Xmas Resistance on the web, arguing that Santa's red clothes had something to do with the <a href="http://www.xmasresistance.org/letters/"><i>Amanita muscaria</i></a>. I guess that's one way to keep the economy afloat.<br /><br />I didn't end up buying any Christmas presents, of course, even though the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> has argued that this particular establishment sells <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/12/04/evergreen_gift_guide.DTL">"environmentally conscious" gifts</a> -- such as $15,000 nature-themed earrings!<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.</span>Jymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com3