Murderous Santa display outside Manhattan mansion draws stares
It used to be a hard and fast rule that I would never under any cirumstances introduce two DUMB@$$ AWARD wieners in one day. Each (not so) lucky wiener deserves their place in the sun and their 15 minutes, no? Of course, since I seem to have launched myself head-first into the whole “War on Christmas” (that really is nothing of the sort) meme, I figured I might as well go whole-hog. And these poor, tortured souls clearly seem to have demonstrated their DUMB@$$ bonafides.
Six weeks ago, this sort of thing would have been applauded. After all, Halloween, being a celebration of Evil and all, is built around this sort of lunacy. Then again, you do have to admit that this is not a Christmas display anyone will soon forget…though the Peace, Love, and Understanding part of the equation seems to have been omitted- if it was even even considered.
Is it just me, or are far too many far-Right Evangelical Ideologues acting even more Scrooge-like than usual this year? It really does seem like far more folks, from Pope Benedict XVI to Jerry Falwell to John Gibson, have managed to get their knickers into a serious twist this holiday season. A bad batch of eggnog? A lack of pumpkin pie? No more U2 iPods? Whatever the reason, some of those folks seriously need to get laid. Perhaps that would help them lighten up a tad.
I always thought that Christmas was supposed to be a time of joy and celebration and Peace on Earth. Hmm…it would seems that Krupnik and Castellanos must not have gotten the memo. It would seem that their God is a joyless, humorless sort…not exactly a ringing endorsement, is it??
NEW YORK — It’s usually easy to tell where a person stands in the culture wars, but whose side is someone on when his Christmas decor is a blood-spattered Santa Claus holding a severed head?
Joel Krupnik and Mildred Castellanos decked the front of their Manhattan mansion this year with a scene that includes a knife-wielding 5-foot-tall St. Nick and a tree full of decapitated Barbie dolls. Hidden partly behind a tree, the merry old elf grasps a disembodied doll’s head with fake blood streaming from its eye sockets.
Trick or treat? Not hardly; Halloween was a few weeks ago. Merry Christmas? Only if you’re channelling Stephen King….
No one answered the family’s door to explain on Tuesday, but Krupnik told the New York Post it was a statement about the commercialization and secularization of Christmas.
“Christmas has religious origins,” he said. “It’s in the Bible. Santa is not in the Bible. He’s not a religious symbol.”
The family is far from the only one making an editorial comment this year on how Americans celebrate Christmas, although it may be the only one doing it by depicting Santa Claus as a killer.
Ah, we just LOVE the Christmas season, don’t we? Peace and love radiating from the pores of everyone you meet. Holiday cheer and jocularity dominating our conversations. Santa Claus holding a disembodied head with blood flowing from its eye sockets. Kinda makes you want to run right out and become a born-again Christian, doesn’t it?
Pope Benedict XVI complained this week that Christmas festivities have been “subjected to a sort of commercial pollution.”
Christian conservatives have launched campaigns to reintroduce a religious component to Christmastime decor in schools and public squares, chiding even President Bush this year for sending out cards wishing supporters a happy “holiday season.”
Fox News talk show host John Gibson wrote a book claiming there is a liberal plot to ban Christmas.
Jeez, something tells me that Krupnik and Castellanos aren’t the only DUMB@$$E$ on this holiday season’s radar screen….
