Brenner who s rumored to live in the
Austin Chronicle s utility room. Note: While many of these guests are indeed the cat s pajamas and will enliven the hour s adventure, we recommend this show (as with
any
Texas Gothic show) simply due to the wealth of folksy, rural, homespun, somewhat eerie and often arcane, wisdom so generously offered by Ma and Pa. But – will this Christmas Eve Eve virtual shindig help prepare you, in any tangible way, for the final week in which we all bid adieu to the relentless shitstorm of 2020? As Pa himself might put it:
Yep.
this year.
How Are You?
(That’s 2020, remember? Back in January, many of us were making faintly clever references to the year’s number and the way we measure human eyesight, but now pretty much all we can think is FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.)
So, in addition to the traditional feelings of warm camaraderie associated with the winter holidays – not to mention the Seasonal Affective Disorder depressions and increased suicidal tendencies that are, it seems, equally traditional but much less openly acknowledged and certainly uncelebrated – in addition to all of that we’ve got these relentless ’ronas infecting and sometimes killing people and generally turning modern civilization into an even more problematic and anxiety-ridden version of itself.