puritans and grumpy old men adrift in the holiday season

 I am surprised that Old Dog, listing the tawdry trail of bogus days that trail Thanksgiving in the incoming wave of Santa's sleigh, did not mention Giving Tuesday.  Perhaps he does not listen to NPR in the dark midst of its pledge drive.   

I remembered Black Tuesday as the beginning of the depression, but doing my usual due diligence, I have discovered there was also a Black Thursday and a Black Friday. Something for everybody I suppose.

I have nothing for the babe in the manger.  I am a Santa Claus kind of guy.  There is a lot of commercialism but this is America after all, and there is still a lot of gemutlichkeit amid the hype.

not everything needs a name or adjective. 

Something almost Scrooge-like in Old Dog's holiday puritanism.  I am not a less is more guy.  My grumpy old guy mantra.  Music should sound like music and art should look like art, and less is not more, it's less; bigger is better.

But in the gemutlichkeit of the season I will refrain from giving Golden Boy a name, but my goodness what a video.  Seems to me that it takes place over about a week, but hard to tell because there are some cloudy days.  But see the light comes and goes, just as the trivia of our puny lives, but then hark the yellow mango bursts forth like Godzilla, seems a bit confused at first, but swoons into the light of the sun which disappears and the yellow mango is lost again but reappears and another swoon.  The yearning in that swoon, priceless.

But I am going to have to agree with Old Dog in this case that the words are a distraction, best just to watch and wonder.  Beautiful.

William Faulkner was the greatest writer ever, but these modern day southern writers with their la de da, see we are just as sophisticated as you Yankees but we just do it in a more charming way, are tiresome.  And when they mix that up with PC like this:

Second, “you guys,” another common alternative for the second-person plural pronoun, is losing support because of its sexist connotations. Are females included in you guys? How about those who identify as nonbinary?

I have to agree with that plain-spoken puritan.  ...sheesh!

Hey guys look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBNHmUT3GPg