They showed "A Charlie Brown Christmas" on TV again last night

[capri0mni]

Because it's the 40th anniversary, I suppose. And I have three observations:

1. Television shows were leisurely paced, back then. Not much happens in the story, really.


2. That despite Linus's heartfelt sermon on the stage of the school auditorium, the moral is quite clear: "The real true meaning of Christmas is 'The Tree will save you.'"


3. It turns out that Charlie Brown got it wrong about fancy lighting decorations on your house. It not crass commercialism (anymore). It's how we talk to each other, this time of year -- like fantasticly colored smoke signals from a distant hill. We don't have skating parties or go caroling door-to-door, but we do put giant, grinning polar bears and lighted candy canes in our yards.
   
   Every year, the cul-de-sac I live on is aglow. And I actually like it. But I've never put up decorations of my own. I keep having fantastic ideas on homemade displays that another Pagan would probably recognize as being for the Solstice, but my Christain neighbors would probably see as quaint, "old fashioned" and "rustic." But I've never actually done anything to make those ideas a reality.
   
   So that will be my 2006 resolution, or at least, the symbolic culmination of it at the end: to communicate with my neighbors more -- and reveal as much of my true self as I can without scaring them.

Comments

[gordon-r-d.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever seen A Charlie Brown Christmas, but am taking steps to rectify that soon. :)

Cartoon Network's full of Christmas cartoons right now, will be setting alarm to watch the repeat of Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends tomorrow because I missed the first half today.

I haven't done anything with decorations this year. There's a few oddments upstairs, but nothing down here. I may go as far as putting a bit of tinsel on top of the telly or something. :P

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was as iconic in Britain as it is over here...

If you put that phrase, in quotes, into Google's Image search, you'll see lots of people's photos of their own real "Charlie Brown" trees that they've decorated for the holidays.

I won't say any more about it, really, for fear of spoilage.

[scarfman]

Did they air it uncut this year - including the original imbedded Coke and Dolly Madison blurbs?

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I don't think so.... as far as I can recall, it was the same as last year's version.