Choices of entertainment for one evening:

• The Living Christmas Tree at First Baptist Church
• Kinesthetic Cue Weekly Dance Party
• Recent moving pictures
• XXXmas Party with Aunt Sofonda (of Posey Peep Show) and musical guests The Wrong Brothers, pleasPlease, Scabley & Scarley Stubidge and more!

In an ode to Newt’s passion for adultery, here is the choice that was made:

Entertaining, indeed.

Contrast this with the Rockettes show we saw a while back and it tells us much.

First of all, humour is flavoured varietally.  If there is a supreme being, then we can safely assume that every variation on a theme has been concocted and projected by the being in one form or another.

We can easily say that every subculture has a means of positive reinforcement of its living standards.

Those who praise a supreme being, which may or may not actively participate in their lives, will find a way to center their thoughts and actions on positive reinforcement of their praise and beliefs.

Those who find no justification for beings in any form, seen or unseen, creative or destructive, will find a way to center their thoughts and actions on positive reinforcement of their beliefs.

It was at summer church camp that I learned from listening to camp counselors about five years older than me about a Saturday evening program called Saturday Night Live.

Thus, while my parents taught me the values of moral and ethical training found within their Christian belief system, I learned not only from them but also from those within that system who sought other forms of enlightenment to feed their desire for intellectual stimulation not readily available in the repeated, steady diet of annual Christian rites and rituals.

College football games.  MAD magazine.  Television shows (minus coverage of the Vietnam War, which my father expressly forbid us from viewing nightly news footage of such).

Of the list of choices at the top of this blog, I have seen them all in one form or another, in this or a previous year.

Constant learning.  Continuous improvement.  Infinite curiosity.  Stoking my imagination.

What did I learn last night?

Well, the level of talent in Huntsville and the surrounding area varies.  I saw an absurdist theatre production of “Cabaret” crossed with “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas,” both which I first observed in my youth.

If you claim a Christian background and current practice schedule, when your children go to bed on the 24th of December, will you have put into their thoughts a prayer toward Santa Claus or Jesus for the gifts they hope to receive in the morning?

For the rest of the world, what do the next few weeks of your exposure to frantic holiday shopping and bright light displays mean to you and your family?