Wednesday, December 28, 2005
FRESH GROUND PEPPER
The problem with Christmas this year, in my humble opinion was that it needed spicing up ... rather than the 'dumbing down' that resulted from the various and sundry family and psuedo-family tensions. It is borderline impossible to create a Ho! Ho! time while in the immediate environs of (a) a warring mother and daughter and (b) a dark and surly looking uncommunicative Spanish-American male who is (minimally) on methadone. These are human elements that tend to drag down and rip the throat out of the relaxed risk-taking necessary for creating said Ho! Ho! times. In the future, I hope to use my persuasive powers to avert repeats of these social miscalculations. No more assholes at GoodGuy time!
Also note this fine whimsical wooden pepper mill that daughter Kelly gave me for Christmas.