Christmas

On my way home today, I decided I was not so much in the Christmas spirit, so I grabbed my satellite radio and turned on the Christmas station.  I listened to a few Christmas favorites and even sang along.  Then came on a song that I didn't recognize.  The song was "Dominic, the Italian Christmas Donkey."  No, I'm not kidding.  I don't know what the lore is that caused Dominic to be part of the Christmas story.  I know that there is plenty of rhythmic braying by the donkey during the song.  In fact it was so silly with the braying, I don't know what the claim to Christmas fame that Dominic has.  And he is not just a Christmas donkey, he is an Italian Christmas donkey.  It's hard to say what event caused the distinction of this ethnicity to be a factor in the song.  It could have been as simple as the people writing the song sitting in someones garage drinking heavily, laughing their asses off putting a Christmas song down on paper. 

I think we, as a country that needs to have multiple channels playing only Christmas music 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for two months leading up to Christmas, have given birth to the phenomenon of probably the goofiest, silliest songs that are now known as Christmas songs simply because they have the word Christmas in them.  Even if a song is about a terrible happening of heartbreak or sadness, if it happened at Christmas and says so in the song, then it goes in with the 24/7 playlist.  My personal-worst song that is now a Christmas song is about someone taking someones heart and more or less stomping on it . . . you guessed it, at Christmas, last Christmas to be exact.  And horror of horrors, just when I thought I was hearing it less, someone ELSE recorded it, so it is all new again with a different artist and then it's on the 24/7 Christmas playlist TWICE as much as it was before.  Can I petition someone somewhere to remove this song from the playlist---it's not a Christmas song! 

Now I could look up how the Dominic song came to be,  how old it is, who wrote it and everything I may or may not want to know about Dominic, but you know, I think that might ruin it for me.  I've gone 48 years and never heard that song, so I might just take my chances on catching it again on definitely a slightly more obscure 24/7 Christmas playlist.  

May you all have a great Christmas.  May you all feel the love that family gives during this time of year.  I will be blessed to be with my family, with all my kids around me, no better place on earth.  And may Dominic, the Italian Christmas Donkey visit you on Christmas.  Wait a second, that's not right.