11/24/2003: 
Criminally Absurd
Two for One Special
Disney Delivers Hospital a Nasty Hook
from The Sydney Morning Herald
Walt Disney has pulled out of the new $140 million film version of Peter Pan after refusing to give a share of its profits to a children's hospital in London.
WTF! "We don't mind making millions of dollars off of childrens movies, just as long as we don't have to help the greedy little brats."
Radio Stations Get Christmas Spirit Early
by David B. Caruso, from AP article at Launch.Yahoo
It's not even Thanksgiving yet, but on radios nationwide it's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas. More than two dozen FM music stations ditched regular programing this month in favor of an all-Christmas-music format, with plans to keep the carols coming until Dec. 26.
Somewhere between 200 to 300 more are expected to follow suit in the next few weeks, ensuring that listeners from Pennsylvania to Dixie's sunny shore will either get that fix of "Home for the Holidays" they've been craving - or go mad from repetitions of "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer."
The consumerist bastardization of Christmas seems to start a little earlier each year. I thought it was out of control last year, but this year, when I went to the supermarket before Halloween and they already had the Christmas shit out...
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Tuesday the 25th of November, crazywriterinla noted:
I went to starbucks in search of a comfy chair to do some work during lunch, and they had the music full throttle. Ever try to analyze your priorities in life to the tune of "White Christmas?" I told them to change the music and they say Starbucks controls is...and that writing a letter wouldn't help because some guy already tried it. I can't stand it, not to mention there aint gonna be no white christmas in Beverly fucking Hills.
