“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives… and to the ‘good life’, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.” – Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman
In the song, Grandma got run over by a Reindeer, Grandma did not actually get run over by a reindeer…
My theory is that in the story, the narrator’s grandmother dies a much darker death on Christmas Eve. Maybe she was mugged and gunned down,
