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This weekend was the "official" start (what "official" decided this, I don't know) of the holiday season, and already I'm sick of the holidays.  Call me Mr. Grinch.  But who wouldn't be a grinch after a month of hearing cheesily-performed christmas carols over the PA Home Depot and a whole month yet to endure?

Santa was in all the malls on November 1st this year.  I know retailers like to milk us for everything we've got during the holidays, but two months of it is a little ridiculous. 

Here is a question: with Santa making his trip down from the north pole just in time for Halloween this year, what did he dress up as for the occasion?  Did he do the sexy devil thing (irony!)?  Or did he do something more topical, like the SNL *blank*-in-a-box guys or Captain Jack Sparrow?  I'd really like to know.  Santa, if you are watching this, weigh in with some pics!  I wonder if his elves got in on the halloween action.

Ho ho ho, I'm ready for new year's now.  Bring on the champagne and party hats and balloons.  Then, let's bring on the spring!  (yes, I know...  it hasn't even snowed yet...)

This weekend, I decided that online shopping rules.  10 reasons why I hate malls, especially this time of year:

1) They smell like the entire mall has B.O.

2) Fake trees.  Don't lose leaves in winter.  Not normal.  Confuses my circadian rhythm.

3) Too many people in an enclosed space.  Feels like petri dish.  Can feel diseases invading my body with every breath.

4) Parking.  Would rather jump naked into pile of razor blades than compete with other holiday shoppers for parking.

5) The smell at the perfume counter in the department stores.  Smells nasty.  Also makes rest of mall smell more nasty when you leave store.  Double whammy.

6) Indoor fountains.  Smell like swimming pool, ugly.  Useless.

7) Snooty department store salespeople.  Get out of my face.

8) Can't shop naked without getting arrested.  Stuffy mall too hot for wearing clothes.  Irony.

9) Mall restaurants -- universally bad.  Cheesecake Factory. Rainforest Cafe, others.  Disgusting.  Would rather spend money on poo than put up with those crowds and mediocre food.

10) Makes blood pressure go up.  Bad for health.  Shortens life.  Will regret every trip to mall when on deathbed.

BostonNow newspaper has published Gobble's rant regarding Thanksgiving Day on 11/24, appropriately a day after Thanksgiving. They should be available all weekend, so go pick one up!

Yet another one of our rants being publicly shared on the streets of Boston.  Submit your rant now, and YOU could see your neighbors, colleagues, and fellow commuters reading what annoys you the most!

Rant On, fellow Unleashers!

Call me old fashioned, but this really bugs me.  Is the point of Thanksgiving to celebrate our gluttony, or to give thanks for what we have?

It would be like calling Christmas "Present Day." I'm not a religious dude but even I can see the sacrelige in that.  Wait, "present day" actually means something... bad example...  It's like calling Easter "Eat Your Chocolate Bunny Day"... wait, that sounds bad...  ok never mind.  You get my point.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone

I hate this in between stuff. 

Who's idea was it to settle in the northeast?  Didn't the pilgrims learn when half of them didn't make it through the first winter??? 

I've had the "sex and the city" theme song stuck in my head all day.  Torture!  Why, why, why.  WHy??  Someone get me out of this. 

P.S. I'm a guy.  Whose girlfriend watches the show religiously.  just so ya know... 

I love it how when I drive South from Boston on 93 and 95, there is a stretch that just doens't make sense.  Between Braintree (where 93 and 3 cross) and Norwood (where 95 and 93 meet), I would be driving South on Route 93, North on 128, while in reality, I am driving West.  You gotta love it.

I just wanted to share the classic gripe of Boston beltway.  If you don't know what I am talking about, pull out a map.

"For the second straight year, rude Miami drivers earned that city the title of worst road rage."..."Boston has ranked third among cities with the worst road-rage problem"
- Boston is listed third in road-rage survey, Boston Globe

Come on, fellow Bostonians!  How can we let this happen?  Red Sox and Patriots are doing their part being the best, but we, the citizens of Massachusetts, are obviously failing to keep up our Boston's image.

We are in it to win!  We are not driving fast enough, slow enough, crazy enough.  It's easy.  Cut more people off, flip more people off, yell at bad drivers, swipe bicyclists, go down against traffic on a one way street, change 3 lanes at the same time, the opportunities are everywhere.  Especially after the Big Dig with all the constructions, the roads lack all rhyme or reason (or signs).  This is a prime situation to become ruder than ever.

 Come on!!  Ralley the troops!  Pull out your cell phones, put those ear phones in, smash your directionals and get out there!

We all know the rules about the numbering of high ways. Even numbers run East-West (think Route 90, 2, 84), while the odd numbers run North-South (think Route 93, 95, 1).

Well, why does Route 28 go North South? 

Why do so many people hate skateboarders? 

I'd rather have these kids practicing their moves in public parks than have them doing crack in the alleys. They have a place to go, people to hang out with, and goals to accomplish.  They are getting out, getting exercises, and staying out of trouble.

 I say let them be!  Encourage the skateboarders!