It's creeping upon us

So, Target has apparently won the race for first Christmas TV commercial for 2012. I myself saw it last night. (And we in the Silicon Valley with 89-degree weather, according to my car’s dashboard yesterday.)

Given that, the fact that they’ve got their Christmas decoration department going already in the Sunnyvale store seems hardly worthy of a lifted eyebrow:

And:

(But, to be fair, they have it behind their Halloween decoration department. Since putting up Halloween lights in your yard has now apparently become obligatory.)

Ho, ho, ho.