By: Chris "Sledge" Douglas
Valentine's day is creeping ever closer, like Sadako from the well in Ring. It's probably already here by the time you read this. No doubt you've bought your significant other (or spouse/life partner) a card with a commercially acceptable, cliched phrase ("I Choo Choo Choose You") or a heartfelt box of factory-made, mass-produced chocolates that allow one to taste the love of a cold steel machine. The in-store POP (point of purchase) advertisements have been in place since Christmas. Your local convenience store carries gigantic pop-up cards featuring Garfield... right next to the bodiless, mucus-spewing plastic doll head and the Dancing Italian Stereotype Doll. And much like its vile cousin Christmas, if someone buys you something, you had better get him or her something in return or you are a "cheapskate." If you couldn't tell already, I'm not really a big fan of this holiday.
