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Blue Light Special

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Red and Blue decorate the Battle Tree for the holidays.

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Reference to Winter Wonderland was accidental. However, What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? is very intentional.

Hope you enjoyed!

EDIT: 1/1/25

Happy New Years Folks! Since this would have immediately ID'd me, I can go ahead and give you the history lesson for this:

"Blue Light Special" refers to an impromptu sales tactic that occurred at (and is often associated with) Kmarts in the United States back in the 1970s. Basically: some random item in store would be marked down for a short time and would be announced using blue light. Yes. Red bought that ring on sale at the Thrifty Megamart lol. I recognize that the Thrifty Megamart is a Costco analogy, but there's something a little schlocky, homey and warm about Kmart to me lol.

Also, did you know you can find archives of Kmart in-store muzak on the Internet Archive? Its such a good rabbit hole to dig into.

Anyway, thanks for reading! Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season!!

EDIT: 30/9/25 As Imgur is blocked in the UK, I am working on fixing the images. Apologies for the inconvenience!!

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