Where are you Christmas

Where Are You Christmas - Faith Hill

It’s that time of the year again. There is a persistent cold front that is giving overcast days and nippy nights here in Phnom Penh. The chill reminds me that Christmas is just around the corner. And that I needed to make and send out my own Christmas card.

I have written in a previous post how I’d been making my own Christmas cards since 2004. How I came to using my images in drag and designing cards around these images. The design of my cards are not conventional. I mean, not many people use cowboy and disco motifs on Christmas cards. Heck, except for a few specialty cards, you’d rarely find a drag queen in a Christmas card.

It took me longer to come up with a design. I guess I over-thought it, so I stopped working on it and did many other things. Until the inspiration came. I wouldn’t want to pre-empt it so I’m showing it now. I’ll tell you something about it later.

The inspiration for the design, obviously, was the environment. This year, there have been a profusion of campaigns and events on the environment: concerts around the world for the planet, saving the ice shelf, reversing global warming, reducing our carbon footprints, and so on. So I thought, why not use this motif on a Christmas card? Green, after all, is also one of the colors of Christmas. Think Poison Ivy meets The Grinch. The title of this post is, befittingly, the theme song of that Grinch film with Jim Carrey.

Also, another factor (but not the deciding one) is the Philippines’ victory in the Miss Earth pageant. Her now-famous quote, which had thankfully eclipsed that idiotic rambling of another beauty queen in another pageant, was certainly a breath of fresh air, in my humble opinion.

I also said in that previous post that I was thinking of not using an image of me in drag in this year’s card but I eventually decided against it. After all, as a guy, I am hardly an interesting subject or material for any card. Although technically, this isn’t me in drag. I had no make-up here; it was just a wig, really. And an electric fan.

So there, I hope you enjoyed viewing my Christmas card. And I hope the joy of the holiday season grows on all of us!