Belated post about Christmas music

I've been meaning to write this all week, but I guess I'm just not in
the holiday spirit. So, on Monday morning my alarm goes off at the
normal time -- and the radio is playing Rudolph the Red-nosed
reindeer!! What?? As if it's not hard enough to get up on Monday
morning. It was November 16th, just in case you wondered. Now, for
the record, I like the holiday season and much of the hoopla that goes
along with it, but this was too much. I have always followed the
unwritten rules of the calendar: no white shoes before Memorial Day,
no white shoes after Labor Day, and no Christmas music or decorations
until after Thanksgiving!! Did I miss the memo? What has changed? Is
this a move by those commercial powers that be to try to kick start
our ailing economy? Look, many of us are out of work and playing
holiday music two weeks early is not going to magically put money in
our pockets to go out and start buying stuff. I thought trickle down
economics died with Bonzo. I think I'm going to boycott Christmas this
year. Anybody else?