It's that time again...
Metromode's staff will be indulging in a little holiday R&R (along with copious amounts of spiked nog). We'll be back
January 14th
with more tales about the people, places, and businesses dedicated to
innovating and evolving Metro Detroit. From Jon, Tanya, Kelli,
Terry, Marvin, and myself, we wish you a joyful holiday and a wonderful New Year.
As a little treat -- a virtual stocking stuffer, if you will-- I'd like to point you toward two little-known but classic holiday ornaments.
The first is the H. L. Mencken short story,
A Bum's Christmas, which is touching, funny, and witty in a way that the legendary newspaperman and satirist was known for.
It opens...
"Despite all the snorting against them in works of divinity, it has always been
my experience that infidels--or freethinkers, as they usually prefer to call
themselves-- are a generally estimable class of men, with strong overtones of the
benevolent and even of the sentimental."
And from there it just gets better and better.
The second holiday morsel is this YouTube video I dug up. Once upon a time the television networks saw themselves as more than just pop culture bullhorns and bottomless marketing machines. Occasionally they tried to inject some class and sophistication into their programming. This holiday promo created for CBS by R.O. Blechman in 1966 is the perfect example. Enjoy!
-Jeff Meyers
Editor
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