Two Christmas entries in a row? 'Tis the season ... of the Apocalypse.

[axver]

Yes, I am making another Christmas entry. Firstly, a few people who replied to my last entry didn't actually include their name, so I'd just like to ask them now if they could. I probably won't be addressing cards to LJ usernames, as amusing as that might be. Feel free to post it on yesterday's entry so that it's screened if you don't want that

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[augustine]

"...if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."

-G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With the World (1910)

"I put this appeal before any other observations on Dickens. First let us symphathise, if only for an instant, with the hopes of the Dickens period, with the cheerful trouble of change...For you, perhaps, a drearier philosophy has covered and eclipsed the earth...If, then, you are a pessimist, in reading this story, forgo for a little the pleasures of pessimism. Dream for one mad moment that the grass is green."

-G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens (1906)

Seriously, the tree looks just fine to me! (Of course, my opinion may perhaps not be the best to rely on, since anything would like good compared to how I would try to decorate a tree. lol.)

[augustine]

like good

look good

D'oh! (Yes, I know: preview is my friend!)

[axver]

Haha, how appropriate to receive this comment now. I'm working on your Worst Christmas Card Ever right now. And rest assured, I am not kidding when I say this is going to be terrible. I am having way too much fun with this. If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing horrendously badly!

As for the tree, I feel like it is a mess of tinsel and lighting and decorations that I really didn't think enough about before I did it.

[augustine]

As for the tree, I feel like it is a mess of tinsel and lighting and decorations that I really didn't think enough about before I did it.

All is gold that glitters:
Tree and tower of brass
Rolls the golden evening air
Down the golden grass;
Kick the cry to Jericho
How yellow mud is sold;
All is gold that glitters
For the glitter is the gold

-G.K. Chesterton (from his novel Manalive, which I'm reading right now; and I think you need to read. lol.)

[evilmissbecky]

Interesting that you call it tinsel. I call that garland. It's what I use on my tree. I call "tinsel" the long stringy-looking metalltic stuff that you drape over the branches and let hang down. I hate the stuff.

[axver]

Ah, I would call that tinsel as well. 'Garland' isn't really a word I use much. Though I would actually use it to describe the big garlands that you see in public, dangled across buildings and above streets. I don't know; I haven't really thought much about my Christmas vocabulary, heh, and I'm so not into the season any more that I'm probably all wonky anyway. Though these terrible cards are making me enjoy things more! Oh, this evening has been too fun.

[ellytoad]

Not a bad looking tree. :)

I put my name on yesterday's entry just now. I can't believe I forgot it the first time.

[cat_incarnate]

Garlands are a powerful decoration. It's easy to overdo them! Mom is a HUGE fan of garlands and she didn't buy any two of the same type and each only covers a fraction of the tree. So you can imagine what it looks like...

I lovelovelove the way it looks in the dark. Best part of having a tree is captured in that last picture there.

[harmonybear]

I know what a bitch that tree is - you did superbly.