From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #746 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website: http://jmdl.com JMDL Digest Thursday, December 15 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 746 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: putting up reindeer [Catherine McKay ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:26:09 -0800 (PST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: putting up reindeer As a northerner and fellow-to-Joni-Canadian, I always find movies or TV shows showing LA at Christmastime very disconcerting. To see those giant inflatable snow people among palm trees and surrounded by green grass and with people wearing their "summer" clothes is just very weird to me. And we don't even get a lot of snow in Toronto and, odds are, we are not going to have any at Christmas this year (it usually doesn't snow much until January around here), but it is still cold and often gloomy. (Not today though - it's going up to 12C and it's raining and dull.) They get a LOT of snow in the prairies in winter, so I think Joni would have a difficult time at first in California, when there's Christmas and no snow. It's just a reality for people from northern climates to expect the snow. With her lines about "cutting down trees, putting up reindeer and singing songs of joy and peace," it sounds like a world-weary recognition that "Christmas", as so many of us know it, is something that comes out of a box once a year, and we're *supposed* to be full of joy and peace and to be merry (oh yeah, and to spend a lot of money "for everyone on your list.") You can take decorations out of a box and set them up, but feelings don't work like that. How many of us have wished we could get away from all that, by skating away or otherwise? >________________________________ > From: Paul Ivice >To: joni@smoe.org >Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 6:26:52 AM >Subject: putting up reindeer > >Betsy asked: First, were these god-awful outdoor decorations really a thing in >the 60s? It doesn't seem possible. (No offense to any Griswalds on the list. >Christmas happens to be sparkling out on my neighbor's lawn--and roof.) > >I think of the scene from Woody Allen's classic film "Annie Hall," which won >the Best Picture Oscar in 1977, when he and Diane Keaton first arrive in L.A. >and are being driven through Beverly Hills by Tony Roberts, past homes with >artificial displays of Santa and reindeer on the lawns. Look at this clip, >especially at the 5:10 mark. >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhKeLLu-jDI&feature=related > > >Paul Ivice ;>) ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #746 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------