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            IT HAS BEGUN! (“It” being Christmas themed advertising)
                                        
Last night at the Cracker Barrel [1], Bunny and I saw store displays
nominally for Halloween. But nestled in the middle of the display was an
evergreen tree with ornaments hanging off it. Try as you might, Cracker
Barrel, there is no such thing as a Halloween Tree [2] (no disrepect, Mr.
Bradury [3])—it's still a Chrismtas Tree.

And then today I saw what is to me, the first official advertisement for
Christmas—a trailer for a movie called “Red One [4],” a muddy looking CGI
(Computer Generated Images) slugfest where Santa Clause has been kidnapped
[5] and needs to be saved.

The movie isn't even slated to be released until November! Couldn't they have
at least waited until October to start advertising it? No?

 Sigh.

[1] https://www.crackerbarrel.com/
[2] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=Halloween+tree&iax=images&ia=images
[3] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375803017/conmanlaborat-20
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8XH3W0cMss
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Conquers_the_Martians

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