Two paeans to staying home
Dec. 18th, 2020 07:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellTwo articles on a common theme:
1. A piece headlined "WalletHub says, incorrectly, that Portland is the 8th best place to celebrate Christmas this year" would normally be a snapback about Portland being ranked so low. Instead:
2. The Washington Post invokes P. G. Wodehouse, which is always a good way to start, to examine the joys of not going to the mall, not meeting with family, and not travelling in general, such as:
1. A piece headlined "WalletHub says, incorrectly, that Portland is the 8th best place to celebrate Christmas this year" would normally be a snapback about Portland being ranked so low. Instead:
According to a new study from WalletHub, Portland is the eighth-best place to celebrate Christmas in 2020.
WalletHub is, sadly, quite wrong about this.
There is only one best place to celebrate Christmas this year and that is your house, whether it is in Portland, Medford or Bangor, Maine.
2. The Washington Post invokes P. G. Wodehouse, which is always a good way to start, to examine the joys of not going to the mall, not meeting with family, and not travelling in general, such as:
First I won’t leave my warm house, roommate and cat to drive onto central Florida’s main artery, Interstate 4, a ride that has provided me with more scares and longer wait times than anything at Disney or Universal. As night falls and it starts to rain, I won’t have to stop watching “The Great British Baking Show” to white-knuckle it for 50 miles between two semis on the “Florida ice,” a dangerous soup of grease and water that makes the highway good and slippery when showers start. I’ll enjoy not being so tense that I clench my muscles until I become the rare case of a living person going into rigor mortis.
