Holiday Wishes with Exceptions

With the holidays upon us and the joyful concomitant duty of finding the perfect gift and then, not finding the means to pay for the perfect gift, settling for something less than perfect (never mind the wrapping - I leave that to professionals),  there has been little time and less mind-power to spare keeping up the counter-assault on the character of the good people of Ovoid.

The reveling gaiety and twinkling magic of the Ovoid Town Square and Pioneer Park, festooned in garland, wreaths and holly, populated with the whimsical, traditional characters of Christmas-time, one is induced to be more forgiving of transgressions. The rude woman dragging three squalling brats who cut ahead of us in line at the Piggly-Wiggly with far more than the maximum items for the express line is to be allowed her impropriety. The boorish, piggish little scrub of trailer-trash from over Olney way who roared his smoke-belching wreck into the last close parking space outside the Dry Goods after we had patiently waited for Mrs Tutwilliger to weigh anchor and un-berth her boat-like SUV might be forgiven his ill manners. The fact that we were given the wrong dinner order two evenings in a row at a local eatery because the waitress was too occupied with texting on her cellphone than to actually do her job properly might be pardoned her unprofessionalism.

'Tis the Season, after all.

The blackguardly character assassination of an entire community, a veritable genocide of communal pride and reputation, however, should not granted any such seasonal beneficence. We speak of the blighted writings within 'Ovoid, Illinois' and of the disgraceful perpetrator of slander and calumny, the author thereof.

It has been brought to my attention that the vile volume has acquired a second, superfluous subtitle; 'a Saga of Sorts'. Had I been consulted, I would have suggested 'a sordid saga out of sorts'.

With the holidays upon us, one holiday wish we would like to make is that 'Ovoid, Illinois' sink without a trace and, in so doing, save the sterling identity of our community.  A second wish and hope is that many would share this wish with us.

Happy Holidays!