Sunday Morning Post (V.1, #26) - It’s Too Hot for Satire
The weekend
forecast here in Southeast PA called for highs at 100 and heat indexes in
triple digits above that. If the
humidity was in the 30s, as it is supposedly in the southwest part of the country,
this would be bearable. But no, our
humidity level is in the 70s, up in the oppressive heat level for those of us
with chronic medical conditions.
In short, to
paraphrase W.C. Fields, “It’s not a fit day out for man nor beast!”
At least one
blog follower will be shocked, shocked to hear that I did not volunteer for
Saturday morning overtime, as has been my recent wont because of the
heat. My original plan this weekend was
to empty the freezer of all food and crawl inside until Monday morning. Unfortunately, Warrior Queen would have had
to find her own freezer. In any event,
our central air conditioning has kept us comfortable and we have not had to
resort to crawling into an ice cave for comfort.
There have
been attempts to cool everyone down, but the success rate is not very
high.
The Hallmark Channel is having its annual Christmas
in July film festival. For those unfamiliar
with this programming, it is when Hallmark broadcasts every film they have been
able to produce simply by pairing the word Christmas with any and every word in
the English language. I imagine that we’ll
soon be seeing titles like Apocalypse Christmas, or A Very Pussy Christmas.
In any event,
let’s start thinking cold, freezing thoughts to get us through these serial heat
waves. We will post two videos, one a perennial holiday favorite and the other
a holiday song that I wish we would hear more often when the season is upon
us.
Disclaimer
for The Christmas Song: ignore the first line (chestnuts roasting on an open fire)
and dwell on the second line (Jack Frost nipping at your nose.) Yes, that should cool us down. Thank you, Jack!
The second is
from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life. It
is, in my humble opinion, a keen observation of how Christmas has been
celebrated in western culture in recent decades: a glorified worship of wealth and materialism
and very little spirituality. Besides,
who could not love a musical production featuring bare-breasted seraphim (relax,
the breasts are fake) and fully dressed British bankers cavorting in a swimming
pool a la Esther Williams.
Stay cool,
everyone!
(Thank you
for reading. Yo, evangelicals! Heed the words at the end of the film about
being nice and respecting everyone regardless of from where they came!)
posted by todd gunther | 11:35 AM
3 Comments:
Oh, Monty Python how I miss you! Yes, I noticed that Hallmark was running "Christmas in July" films right now. All Hallmark films are barf-inducing but especially these ones.
Stay cool!
It seems lots are on line talking about the weather - myself included. I get to bitch the loudest based on temperature but I lose as there is no humidity to it.
Thank you, Debra. Ooh! I dare them to make a film entitled "Christmas at Stonewall."
Thank you, Spo. I'm sure your heat with our humidity would melt the BoD.
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