PUT THAT ANYWHERE, PT. 6: THE NATIVITY

Terrific article from The Guardian about nativity scenes, which includes awesome sentences like “On the internet, you can buy cribs at which Mary welcomes Father Christmas and a penguin to the manger.” And anyone out there remember the Christmas of 2004, “when Madame Tussauds staged a celebrity Nativity with the Beckhams as Mary and Joseph?”

Great. Now I can’t get that out of my head.

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Growing up I used to see a ton of nativities out in people’s yards, but slowly the Technicolor plastic figures have given way to inflatable snowmen and NASCAR Santa and the like.

Now, it seems, people are jumping ahead, totally skipping the nativity scenes opting instead for the cross, usually more a symbol of Easter, to light their frontyards. Besides the pic I posted here, I’ve seen two other crosses in just my tiny neighborhood alone.

And you know what they say, “as goes University Manor-slash-Merriman Park, so goes the nation.” (That is what they say, isn’t it?)