Ok so france.. just somehow doesn’t quite grasp the idea behind the whole Christmas decoration thing. I dunno.. I mean I always thought that well a decoration was supposed to make things look beautiful, you know harmonious and that sort of thing.. I mean I would have thought the whole gold, red, green  etc. color scheme was sufficient.. I don’t really see the need for hot pink, purple, orange, and yellow.. . don’t we get enough of that at Easter?  And lights are definitely a nice touch unless they’re tube like and Las Vegas-style flashy, flashing on and off like a like some emergency vehicle and scattered rather haphazardly not to mention lopsided..  oh and we can’t forget the huge plastic reindeer in the front yard  (only two, never the full eight.. have you ever noticed that in  illustrations and stuff.? There’s only ever 4 or 6 reindeer!.. ok if you count Rudolf normally that’s nine!.. whatever. But the worst, I mean by far the absolute most hideous of all France’s attempts to recreate an American looking Christmas, is the santa claus. This lovable tradition I guess you could say, is reduced and I mean literally reduced to an elf size (in most cases) replica of a santa type creature (basically.. it’s red.. that’s how you know it’s santa) that CLIMBS up a rope ladder hanging from a window ledge (that’s if you’re lucky.. sometimes santa just hangs.. in the middle of the wall)…. I have never seen one of these santa creatures near a rooftop might I add. Dude! I would get the heebeejeebees having one of those freaky little things supposedly climbing up my wall! If you drive through my neighborhood or any neighborhood around here during the holiday season you will inevitable run into HUNDREDS of creepyredclimbingsantas! There is at LEAST one on every house.. varying in tinyness.. occasionally you see an overly enthusiastic decorator who has 3 or four santas, one of which usually at least 4 feet tall. Oh! but that’s not as ghetto as it gets, yesterday I saw SIX miniature santas climing up one rope to a balcony on an apartment building  (where of course there were hundreds of santas  and hot pink lights already.) I’m not kidding, it’s an ambush.. hundreds of little red spies hanging from every house.. I just know they’re all rigged with some kind of camera or something.. it’s going to end in some invasion.. probably aliens.. that’s the best explanation for it all.  Eh.. whatever. Happy new years guys.