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Oh, sweet irony. Here I have another adorable pattern from the free Australian Home Journal called ‘Be Ready for the Snow’. If you are, as I am, on the upper East Coast, this comes a little too late. I spent yesterday slogging through through 3 inches the EXACT texture of a Slush Puppie, and the snow’s still coming down today. According to NPR the wintery weather’s the result of El Niño playing havoc with wind patterns, NOT the nonexistence of global warming, as so many loud men on the subway over the age of 40 seem to guffaw at each other.
My only quibble with this charming design is that the skiers go uphill, when it would make more sense (as far as sweater graphics can make sense) for them to be zipping down, achievable by rotating the graphic a mere 90 degrees clockwise. Insert your own joke about skiing the Grand Tetons here.
Now that I’m not sloshing through dirty snow or shoving past crowds, I can reflect fondly on Christmas in the city (call it ‘holiday’ all you want PC Patrol, but that’s no Hannukah bush up at Rockefeller center). Having an out-of-town friend come in is the best way to enjoy all the ‘touristy’ stuff in New York, and lucky for me a friend joined me from Philly just in time for all the holiday cheese. We wasted no time in checking out the coup-de-grace of seasonal tourist gawking- the Rockefeller Tree:
Somewhere out there that 4000 year old gnarled Dwarf Pine is chuckling to itself. Each year a paid group seeks out the largest and most beautiful tree in the nation…to chop down and slowly die in front of thousands. The rainbow lights are the final insult.
I’ve been more interested in Saks 5th Ave’s ‘Singing Snowflakes’ display since it caught me by surprise 2 years ago- out of nowhere the whole building started blinking in time to the badass version of ‘Caroling of the Bells’ (itself a spooky bit of Christmas cheer no matter how it’s sung), captivating me through the magic of well-timed light display.
Lines wrap around all the big department stores for viewing their window displays. Unfortunately both Saks and Macy’s windows were sappy Santa stories pandering to kids about the magical wonderment of their missals getting to Santa’s shop of whimsical delight. Meh.
Fortunately the fancier stores went in the random crazy direction, resulting in the following:
Flying bed in a sparkletree? Sure!
Dapper wolf playing piano for a draped chantuse? Why not! It’s Christmas!
As Kent Brockman warned us, KillStorm ’09 bore down on us like a shotgun full of snow:
Perhaps it’s early-onset Cabin Fever, but this is the Christmas tree I whipped up:
Yeah. That is indeed a jug of cat litter holding it up (I couldn’t find the base or top). Happy Holidays, folks!
Tags: Christmas!, holidays, Snow
