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First Posted: 03/18/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 04:00 PM ET

Christmas Trees

nytimes.com:

TORRANCE, Calif. It is a nibble weird that a guy who describes his relationship to Christmas as "hostile" runs around greater Los Angeles in a floppy red Santa hat and answers his iPhone, "Merry Christmas, this is Scotty Claus!"

But bummed as false merriment and gift obligations render him, Scott Martin -- landscape architect and tree hugger in a literal sense -- was unnerved by the sight of post-Christmas trees lying about like so much discarded sausage casing.

What people really ought to do, he reasoned, was rent a Christmas tree, and return it, alive, to the nursery after the season.

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TORRANCE, Calif. It is a nibble weird that a guy who describes his relationship to Christmas as "hostile" runs around greater Los Angeles in a floppy red Santa hat and answers his iPhone, "Merry Chris...
TORRANCE, Calif. It is a nibble weird that a guy who describes his relationship to Christmas as "hostile" runs around greater Los Angeles in a floppy red Santa hat and answers his iPhone, "Merry Chris...
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09:39 AM on 12/22/2009
I LOVE THIS!!!