Comments on: Craptacular, Craptacular! http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2003/11/21/craptacular-craptacular/ The personal web site of Brendon J. Wilson, a software developer living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:26:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Kevin Cheng http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2003/11/21/craptacular-craptacular/#comment-161 Kevin Cheng Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/?p=124#comment-161 for awhile, i thought you were gonna post one of those personalized amazon stores where you get some credit. seems like all the rage lately. for awhile, i thought you were gonna post one of those personalized amazon stores where you get some credit. seems like all the rage lately.

]]> By: Jillian Tate http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2003/11/21/craptacular-craptacular/#comment-162 Jillian Tate Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/?p=124#comment-162 I also hate that the Christmas season starts in October now. I saw a giant 8 foot inflatable Santa at Safeway in mid-October - bad enough such landfill-fodder exists, worse that it's being sold prematurely. And I pity the mall workers, with their added fire hazard decorations and killspree inducing repetive non-denominational Christmas music. It's not that I hate Christmas because I'm Jewish - I just hate it because it's so *tacky*! </rant off> I also hate that the Christmas season starts in October now. I saw a giant 8 foot inflatable Santa at Safeway in mid-October - bad enough such landfill-fodder exists, worse that it’s being sold prematurely. And I pity the mall workers, with their added fire hazard decorations and killspree inducing repetive non-denominational Christmas music. It’s not that I hate Christmas because I’m Jewish - I just hate it because it’s so *tacky*!

]]> By: Evan Wise http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2003/11/21/craptacular-craptacular/#comment-163 Evan Wise Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/?p=124#comment-163 SantaCon. Want in? SantaCon.

Want in?

]]> By: Brendon J. Wilson http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2003/11/21/craptacular-craptacular/#comment-164 Brendon J. Wilson Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/?p=124#comment-164 Maybe I should have titled this entry "Cryptacular, Cryptacular!", given the cryptic nature of the last comment. I'm guessing it was posted by <a href="http://home.justwerks.com">Evan</a>, and for those not in the know: <a href="http://www.santarchy.com/">Santacon</a> is a yearly event where people dress up like Santa, get loaded, and act "naughty". The basic idea is to blow off Christmas stress, as well as reveal some of the crassness of a commercialized Christmas. Of particular note is the Santacon held last year in Seattle, where the author of "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003W8NM/brendonwilson-20">Fight Club</a>" was <a href="http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/community/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3551">accosted</a> at a reading at a local book store, forced into Santa pants, made to drink tequilla, and reminded sharply that "the first rule of Santa is you don't talk about Santa". Maybe I should have titled this entry “Cryptacular, Cryptacular!”, given the cryptic nature of the last comment. I’m guessing it was posted by Evan, and for those not in the know: Santacon is a yearly event where people dress up like Santa, get loaded, and act “naughty”. The basic idea is to blow off Christmas stress, as well as reveal some of the crassness of a commercialized Christmas.

Of particular note is the Santacon held last year in Seattle, where the author of “Fight Club” was accosted at a reading at a local book store, forced into Santa pants, made to drink tequilla, and reminded sharply that “the first rule of Santa is you don’t talk about Santa”.

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