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Show Tuesday, January 3, 1995 4 - The Daily Utah Chronicle Don't take down the tinsel or lights yet During such rimes, the planet earth starts to almost fed like home forme. Almost. But then, after the resolution phase of New Year's Day and the Rose Parade, what? What now? Where's the next opportunity to dress up, to light the lights, to sing the songs, to festoon your surroundings with shredded shiny mylar? Where? You see, this is the secret sadness that lies behind the whole Christmas Melville The Mercy Cube fans and welcome Hello sports to the Mercy Cube. Fasten your and never fear, for the Mercy ts Cube is equipped with emergency exits. Well, the holiday season is now gone for another year. Sigh. It's just not (air. There are only I tried to convince peo- ple one year to dress up as oppressed peoples of the world to celebrate Human Rights Day, but it didn 't go over very well. two time periods in the entire year, Halloween and Christmas, when my personal aesthetic is completely in tune with most of American culture. Those two holidays are the only times where tacky extremism is not only socially acceptable, but is positively encouraged, cheered and exaggerated to gross excess. km LET LET LET n i r- - t IT SNOW! IT SNOW! IT SNOW! tyMarkParisi post-orgasm- Mark seat-bel- CflGacncrfx season (or holiday season, that is. Pardon my occasional but I do try). After all the joy and good cheer and tasteless excesses, there's the morning after. And the morning after that And the morning after that And the morning after that And so on. Are you getting my drift? Here we are now, all sitting in January, at the starting point of the long, bleak, winter Great Basin of the soul, with nary a string of blinking colored lights to d brighten our fog and moods. It's a long haul, and there's nothing but the abstract concept of a coming spring thaw to keep us all pressing on with the work to be done. Sigh. The few holidays we have upcomI ing aren't exactly tried to convince people one year to dress up as oppressed peoples of the world to celebrate Human Rights Day, but it didn't go over very weD. Similarly my campaign that special carols should be written for Thanks, inversion-shroude- byMarkParisi TlEttfijf.tATS ... AMP, AS arnnsr is DfAqspcKD...tboR v5TWg Wand four vcjams thrill-inducin- g. Py NRt'l,, L'Or-.- -e P19 i Sc Sree j &UW r -- 1- Clck Hckey Mousse lights (holiday lights, sorry) shining the entire year 'round. Except for the i" Christmas (holiday, oops) season, of course. Then they turn them off. Then, as soon as Jan. 2 rolls see "Melville" on page 6 mv Pck Pork President's Day. But what to do? I give up. I've for years now admired a family who lives a couple of blocks from me. They keep their outdoor Christmas m. 7aS USUAL) ii ranMinn nr w Let University Student Apartments (formerly known as Student Family Housing) you in me winter ana you won t care now Daa ine roaas gei. we re ciose, Keep sidewalks clear (no matter when the snow flies) and rent to university students. 7 for waiting list info. Telephone 581-866- . UNIVERSITY STUDENT APARTMENTS v l cuddle our w t J,S0B 2 & 3 bedroom apts parking On-silaundry centers Playgrounds Community centers i, Off-stre- et te lev Close to all campus facilities sucb as the fteldbouse, indoor swimming, library, Bookstore, Huntsman Center, Union, and the list goes on and on... - |
