It's the eve...

...and I think I hear carol singers, with their old, familiar, traditional songbook, heading this way...

Supreme Fabulettes - You Ruined My Christmas

RIP, Vanilla Lush

Ren & Stimpy - I Hate Christmas

Fascinating Aida - The Christmas Song

Only today and tomorrow to go, and the Festering Season's over for another year. Hoorah!

Bah Humbug.

Krampus, Ren, Stimpy and me

Allegedly experiencing a bit of a revival in popularity "as a reaction against a holiday that has become increasingly anodyne, child-centric and commercialised, and [in] an attempt to re-engage with a darker, pagan tradition", according to The Guardian, every Yuletide Krampus - the ancient goat-demon from Germany; the "anti-Santa" - appears armed with a rusty chain to beat naughty children and a sack to cart them off to the underworld.

There is also an annual Krampuslauf - or Krampus run - in which drunken men dressed as devils parade through the streets frightening everyone.

Krampus is apparently a traditional part of Germany's Christmas celebrations, accompanying St Nicholas on his feast-day rounds on the eve of 6th December, known as Krampusnacht.

Greetings from Krampus!

More about Krampus

I like the idea of this demon creature. He seems most appropriate - for today marks the start of the traditional (evil) seven-day countdown to that day here at Dolores Delargo Towers. And, in a style befitting our respect for this "festering season", here's I Hate Christmas by the ever-wonderful Ren from The Ren & Stimpy Show...

Ren & Stimpy - I Hate Christmas

Every Christmas, I am listless
Giving gifts just ain’t my bag
Sleigh bells ringing, and off key singing,
Christmas music makes me gag!

Ren & Stimpy's Crock'o'Christmas

Bah Humbug.