Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
I love Christmas – there’s magic in the air.
Yes, Christmas is too commercial. But so is football; so is the new Kings of Leon album. I don’t care: sometimes I like commercial. That’s why I’ve always wanted to work in advertising.
Advertising can be beautiful. This, this and these are all the proof you’ll need:
In 2008 the lesser spotted Good Christmas Ad made a return to shores of Blighty thanks to CHI & Partners.
If you did manage to piss off your family with some rubbish gifts, they’ll forgive you. After all, Christmas makes people a little friendlier and smiley. Perhaps it’s all the fantastic cheap booze Supermarkets are offering (another upside of things being too commercial).
And amidst the throng of festive commerce, I think you’d still be a right sour muppet if you didn’t entertain the thought that maybe, just maybe, Santa does exist. Yes, I know, it sounds ridiculous. But watch just one of the many good festive films – Elf, Miracle of 54th Street, Santa Claus The Movie – and only the hardest of impenetrable hearts will condemn Old Saint Nick to the spiritual scrapheap.
But now Christmas has gone for another year. I’ll miss it.
Oh well, let’s look forward to a cracking 2009.