Wednesday 12/10/14

Mike: Hey Tim!

Tim: Hey Mike!

M: Happy Advent!

T: Aww, thanks! Happy Advent to you, too.

M: I love Advent.

T: Me too.

M: I’ve been listening to my Advent music CD a lot.

T: Advent music?

M: Yeah, you know, music that you listen to during Advent. O Come O Come Emmanuel, Little Town of Bethlehem, O Come All Ye Faithful… Advent music. One of my ex-girlfriends gave me a CD full of it.

T: Yeah, most people just call that Christmas music.

M: Most people are wrong.

T: Of course they are.

M: Look, you listen to Advent music during Advent, you listen to Christmas music during Christmas. It’s not Christmas yet, so I’m listening to Advent music.

T: Alright, fine. I’ll bite. Give me an example of Christmas music.

M: O Come O Come Emmanuel, Little Town of Bethlehem, O Come All Ye Faithful…

T: Those are literally the same songs.

M: During the Christmas season.

T: This is the Christmas season.

M: During the liturgical Christmas season.

T: So you’re saying that on December 24 at 11:59 p.m. O Come All Ye Faithful is an Advent song, but one minute later…

M: It becomes a Christmas song. Well, technically speaking, it becomes a Christmas song at sundown on Christmas Eve, but you get the idea!

T: What if you played it during Ordinary Time? Or during Lent or Easter?

M: Then you’d be a monster.

T: Right. And you shared this theory with the girl who gave you the CD?

M: Yes, right before I crossed out “Christmas” and wrote in “Advent” on the CD.

T: No wonder she’s an ex-girlfriend.

M: Right? I can only take so much of someone being so small minded.

T: You don’t say.

M: Yeah, it can be really frustrating.

T: Somehow I feel like I know the feeling.

M: Girl trouble?

T: Not exactly… Maybe we should move on. What’s the link this week, brother?

M: This week is a link to a digital version of one of my favorite Advent traditions.

T: Go on.

M: It’s Busted Halo’s Digital Advent Calendar!

T: Awesome!

M: Yeah! Every day there’s a new box you can click on, but unlike the Advent calendars we had as kids, you can’t open them all on the first day. You actually have to wait!

T: Sweet! That will drive most of the teens crazy!

M: I know!

T: Yay!

M: Yay!