I’m back. Drum Circle tonight. Wow, love that shit. First off, I’m going to assume that at least one person doesn’t know what a Drum Circle is. Basically, any and every person with ANY kind of drum heads out to the beach around sunset and begins pounding on it. Each person has a beat that blends into some pretty primal shit by sunset and into the night. Lots of people dancing around and lots of people just watching. Some people are fucked up on whatever, some people are crazy high on the rhythm. It’s a good time. I make it every time I can which happens to be about once a month. It’s my lunar cycle. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not at all a New-ager. I’m not buying any of that crap. Not buying the “Good Book” either. What I am buying is a whole lot of people dancing peacefully and freely around a hundred thumping drums under the stars. That’s been going on a helluva lot longer than any of that other garbage. Yeah, I gotta get up and go to work in the morning but that’s cool, that’s reality. The Drum Circle. That’s a different matter altogether. Viva La Cirque De Drum (or however the French would say it).

Fucking holiday bullshit. How’s that for cheer? We started hanging up holiday shit in the bar today, god damn it. First of all, it’s a tremendous pain in the ass. Second, it’s cheesy as shit. Third, what’s the point? If you’re alone getting hammered in a bar over the holidays the last thing you want to be reminded of is that you’re alone getting hammered in a bar over the holidays. For fuck sake. Am I crazy or is it me? Anyway, we start hanging these strings of bullshit cheer about and a couple of regulars get heated. One of them is angry because we have one that says “X-mas” and that’s like leaving Christ out of Christmas. I told her he hadn’t been in Christmas for a little over 2,000 years and she got bent. Oh well, if she’s a Christian, she’ll find it easy to forgive me. Anyway, next, this guy starts in on how he’s offended at the banner that actually says “Christmas” because he’s not a Christian. I’m not making this shit up, fuck you (it’s like Springer Light, isn’t it?). I tell him that Christmas is a Christian holiday and he calls me out for contradicting myself. I tried to explain that both comments had different context; one was humorous the other was factual. I also tried to explain that one could argue that while Christmas is a Christian holiday it can be said to be lacking in almost anything to do with Christianity. He shut me down like Bill O’Reilly. What a pig-headed fucker. Oh well I didn’t even want to hang the fuckers up in the first place. Choose your battles well. I’ve already chosen mine. Sometime early next year, I’m going down to the basement after close and I’m going to dispose of every box of holiday cheer (except St. Patty’s, Halloween, and The 4th of July).