Santa Creep

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Dear Cosi,

Christmas music? Really? Could I maybe just have a couple more weeks of autumn?

Yours,

Radley Balko

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12 Responses to “Santa Creep”

  1. #1 |  Ben | 

    Wally World was playing Christmas music the day after halloween. :(

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  2. #2 |  Eric Cope | 

    Gotta get people spending their money for the season.

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  3. #3 |  ALowe | 

    The radio station they play here at work has been playing it since the beginning of last week.

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  4. #4 |  Rob S | 

    Promoting Christmas before Thanksgiving = instant boycott.

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  5. #5 |  witless chum | 

    Now, how can anyone complain about a war on Christmas, when it’s clearly fired the first shot?

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  6. #6 |  Dan Hill | 

    You ought to go to the Philippines. The unofficial rule is they only play Christmas music in the malls in months ending in “ber”. What comes right after 31 August?

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  7. #7 |  Dave Krueger | 

    Holiday campaigns are like election campaigns. The next one starts immediately after the last one.

    I’ve come to loath both.

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  8. #8 |  David Gillies | 

    I heard my first bit of Xmas Muzak in a department store here in Costa Rica on the 24th October.

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  9. #9 |  Boston | 

    Friendly Letters? Who are you IOZ?

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  10. #10 |  A.G. Pym | 

    Our local Costco had the first xmas stuff up just after the 4th of July.

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  11. #11 |  deadcenter | 

    home depot on 29 Oct

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  12. #12 |  kishnevi | 

    How about this? the norm for starting to sell calendars for the next year is now June.

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