This is what happens when Jesus loving meets keeping up with the Joneses in South Orange County… Everyone is always judging everyone else here. Everyone is always trying to be the biggest and the best. The reality of “The OC” is that it’s PRECISELY like all those shitty “Real (insert noun here) of OC” TV shows that are floating around on cable.

Let me set the scene. You’re driving down the street, and there’s this house and practically every inch of its yard is covered in blinking christmas lights. You chuckle a little bit and you’re like, alright… Then you look a little closer, there’s a big glowing sign that says “Tune your radio to 103.5 FM!” Uh, okay? You tune in the radio and you quickly realize that those lights aren’t blinking at random, they’re synched with the horrid christmas tunes that are now blasting out of your car stereo. Seriously crazy shit. Crazy enough that I actually stopped to video it.

So these guys win it, hands down, in true over the top, “hey everyone look at me!” OC style. Their love for Jesus and the Christmas Spirit is obviously greater than that of any of their other neighbors (based on the number of Yes on prop 8 signs stuck in all of the front lawns this past election, the neighborhood is FULL of Jesus lovers)

Or maybe they just like Christmas lights, I dunno. Whatever.

So last night after The Sounds concert in Denver, which Intern Becca bailed on, we made our way back to Boulder and ended up at The Downer for a few more drinks. While we were sitting there a group of guys walked in and sat down. Matt, in a state of near belligerence yelled at them “Crispen Porter!”
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