As the Pilgrims very extremely pious and their “friendship” with the Native Americans skeptical, I find so much irony in the fact that they are now depicted as mass-produced inflatable yard decorations bearing pies and pumpkins.
OH just wait until when Christmas comes. I am going to have a FIELD DAY with the inflatable decorations.
You tell them Lisa. Enough with blatant commercialism. The meaning of our holidays is falling by the wayside at alarming speed. Although in recent years we have come to question the Pilgrims motives in feasting with our Native American neighbors, we can still celebrate the day in Christian-like fellowship (even if you aren’t Christian) with family and friends. THIS IS WHAT THANKSGIVING IS ABOUT. Now as for Christmas, please, please, please NO NATIVITY SCENES WITH WINNIE THE POOH CHARACTERS PORTRAYING THE HOLY FAMILY, OR JUST AS BAD, THE HOLY FAMILY PORTRAYED BY PRECIOUS MOMENT PLASTIC FIGURES. You might as well have the holy family portrayed by the Manson family; the insult to Jesus is the same. If more people would do a little research as to where their holiday-house decorating dollars were going, they may re-think the whole situation. ♫♫The rich get rich and the poor get poorer♫♫. Let us try to focus on the meaning of Christmas, why we celebrate it every year and re-think the way we celebrate it and we will have a much more peaceful and loving 2010. God Bless us all, everyone.
You need to proof read before you rant. The first two lines don’t even make sense. Do you ask permission before posting pictures of peoples homes? If not this article, while it may be stating a valid opinion, is in poor taste.
Mo – you do not need permission to photograph someone’s public yard decorations. In fact, I take all of my photographs that I post of “personal property” from across the street so I am not even on a person’s property. I make perfect sense in my writing. My POINT was that as pious people they were “plain” and did not care for adornment and excess, hence their clothing, beliefs, etc. I didn’t think I needed to further elaborate on that.
I realize you do not need permission to photograph property but I find it offensive that you belittled these people’s decorations and posted it without there permission. I find it in poor taste, especially for a ‘community blog’.
“As the Pilgrims very extremely pious and their “friendship” with the Native Americans skeptical” – please reread this as it does not make sense.
Saying that I do enjoy your website, just didn’t like the way this story came across.
IMHO – Should the writers/roving photographers state opinions when uploading a story/picture or should they remain as objective as possible?
I mean, this isn’t Fox News or anything, is it? Leave it to the posters to provide the color commentary.
To quote Mrs. Bugg, how bad can the economy be if Marine Park residents can fill their yards with giant inflatable holiday decorations?
Those figures make me smile every time I drive by them. Yeah, they’re a bit over the top but it’s nice to see the culture of this country celebrated in a positive way for a change. I’m tired of hearing people apologizing for our country and its history. I’d like to thank those neighbors, whoever they may be, for taking the time to remind us that we *are* still Americans and we should be proud of the country we’ve built and those that built it.
I agree with you. I didn’t mean to take a stab at our country’s history, just found irony in the decorations as compared to the history of the Pilgrims.
I love my country and love my neighborhood. I CARE about what happens here. I hope that comes across in my posts.
Lisa, I should have mentioned that you’re doing a great job. The site looks terrific and I don’t know how you manage to come up with ideas in a quiet neighborhood where not much seems to happen. Keep up the good work.
I don’t have anything against festive decorations; in fact, I am a festive decorator myself. However, I am not a fan of inflatable lawn decorations. I applaud the effort behind them but just not a fan – my own personal opinion! I think in many cases they are too big to work in the small yards of Marine Park homes. To add, I LOVE the American flag hanging. If all the homes in MP featured American flags as much as they do inflatable yard decorations, I would find no need to rant about them.
Lisa how do you get pics posted on the marine park blog ?? I think you do an excellent job.
Pino – I am not bitter at all. As for accomplishing much in life, in my young adulthood I have accomplished more than most people my age – and still continuing to do so. I write/photograph for the blog because I enjoy it and it interests me. Please refrain from using such language as we do have young people who read the blog. If you don’t like what you see, you don’t have to read it.
Maybe you should channel your harsh criticism to your own creative endeavors instead of insulting mine? Just a thought.
Who is Pino? Is it true that you do not alow people to post if they do not agree with you? I heard a group of people talking on Ave S that you deleted other peoples posts. I live and work in Marine Park and this is not what we represent!
I will address this.
I removed all comments ever made by “Pino” and all other comments made by “Pino” under different names.
As Slim said below in comment 8: “Critiquing and expressing dislike (intellectually) are always welcomed in a healthy discourse.” However, there is a line that you can cross, and this person obviously crossed it, and has therefore been “banned”.
He crossed this line when they stopped talking about the story, and started to make crude comments directed at “Lisa”. He started to stop talking about what “Lisa” had wrote and in one comment started to discuss her appearance in a negative way.
Not even on GerritsenBeach.net do my commentors make crude comments directed at me. They say how they feel about what I have posted but they don’t directly insult me.
Dear Pino’s Friend,
Your friends post was offensive and insulting. As such, it is well within the rights of anyone to edit accordingly. Lisa points out that children read the blog. And, frankly, I happen to agree that they should not be exposed to personal insults, especially ones that stoop to such a low level. Critiquing and expressing dislike (intellectually) are always welcomed in a healthy discourse.
The last bastion of idiocy is throwing personal insults. Communist blog? Really? One of many things communism does not encourage is free will. As long as you have that, the idea and subject of communism is moot. The very nature of blogging is based on free will: free will to write, free will to read, free will to respond.
May I suggest dear Pino’s friend you simply move beyond it. As for your friend, perhaps maybe next time they want to post something critical, they use a tactic other than personally insulting. You’ll find it makes for a healthier dialog…and far less editing.
As for me, I am going to now blow up my Miami Vice nativity scene and put it in my lawn. Edward James Olmos as the baby Jesus is awesome.
Happy Holidays!
Slim
As of this afternoon this yard is now filled with Chrismas and Hanukah inflatables.
Dear Neighborhood Lady,
My family hopes to finish our Christmas decorating tomorrow.
Aside from a few lights, we are celebrating this joyous holiday with recycled ‘blow mold’ figures of Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus. It is unfortunate that you frown upon my families desire to celebrate the birth of Jesus with these ‘PRECIOUS MOMENT PLASTIC FIGURES’. I applaud those families who will impart to their children the joy of Jesus birth, even if it is with ‘NATIVITY SCENES WITH WINNIE THE POOH CHARACTERS PORTRAYING THE HOLY FAMILY’. I personally can’t wait to see the Miami Vice nativity scene with Edward James Olmos as the baby Jesus’.
Neighborhood Lady….. we each celebrate in our own way…. that is why we live in the United States and why we are proud to fly our flag. Marine Park is growing and if our new and old time neighbor’s wish to adorn their property with inflated snow globes or Ferris wheels or even Santa’s on motor cycles, we should each be thankful we are here to celebrate with our friends and family….
On behalf of my family and our blow mold figures, wishes are extended to all for a joyous, healthy and peaceful holiday season and year to come!
My kids love looking at all the inflatables in the neighborhood, and there are a lot of homes with them! They are intended to be fun and when the kids walk home from school on Fillmore, these inflatables are their favorite. It’s a personal decision how people decorate (or don’t decorate) their home and I find it not in the neighborhood spirit to critique our neighbors on something that is clearly supposed to bring a smile to faces. I was sorry to see that this blog is being used to put down our neighbors and print pictures of homes without permission. This is not the Marine Park that I know.
Are you people really keeping tabs on other peoples houses? seriously???
i hapen to love the inflatables on this houses lawn and their christmas decorations are even better..i completely agree with you “marine park mom” because i dont understand why the blog is being used to put down people..we have the right to decorate our houses the way we want.. in fact if u pass my house maybei have a big huge inflatable of myself..and i can do that because I HAVE THE RIGHT TOO.. and you people need to stop taking pictures of peoples houses because it is not right to the people that live there..in fact, i think u need to find something better to do on a saturday night.
Thank you.