K-Squared Ramblings » Easter http://www.hyperborea.org/journal Sci-fi, comics, humor, photos...it's all fair game. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:27:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Raising the Dead http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2008/03/raising-the-dead/ http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2008/03/raising-the-dead/#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:45:09 +0000 Kelson http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2008/03/21/raising-the-dead/ Church Marquee: Raising the Dead. Please Join Us.

Well, when you come down to it, that’s what Easter is about. But when you put it that way, it just sounds like the stuff that most churches rail against

]]> http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2008/03/raising-the-dead/feed/ 0 More Holiday Creep http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2006/02/easter-creep/ http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2006/02/easter-creep/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:39:15 +0000 Kelson http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2006/02/13/easter-creep/ Continue reading →]]> Spotted the following in a grocery store on Saturday, three days before Valentine’s Day.

Easter egg dye cups

I think the holiday decoration/candy/card industry has started selling two holidays ahead. Christmas stuff was out in October, with both Halloween and Thanksgiving ahead. Here’s Easter stuff on sale with both Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day in the future.

Decoration-wise, there’s not much between Easter and Independence Day. Sure, people get the day off for Memorial Day, but the closest you get to a themed aisle in the grocery store is that you can buy American flags in more places. After the big Fourth of July patriotic blow-out (which of course is on sale by June), the holiday-industrial complex doesn’t really get going again until October—though back-to-school sales seem to be getting earlier all the time. I wonder when they’ll start going straight into back-to-school from graduation sales?

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