[VaSteve]

We took the boy to see Santa at the local mall. The entire set up is a maze in which you are intimately entwined in an advertisement for "Narnia". Even the snow globe Santa gives out has an ad for the damn movie. There is no place and nothing you can do anymore that doesn't have some sort of tie-in advertising. I can't shop at the local Safeway without ads in the parking lot. Jeez.


On an unrelated note.... we stopped by the toy store to buy a wagon for the boy. The classic metal radio flyer (Since 1917!) is made in China. The plastic ones (at double the price) were made in the US. We can't produce a metal wagon in our country? Sad.