Here’s a holiday almost no one is celebrating, NATIONAL DAY OF UNPLUGGING! The idea is to shut off the cell phones, iPods, tablets, Kindles, PCs and what-have-you that hooks you into the World Wide Web in seconds. The calendar says 2020, not 1969, and unplugging is not […]
Read more →Here’s a guy you have to hate, the ultimate Renaissance man. Not happy being a great painter and sculptor, the guy was also an architect, engineer, poet and a big fan of small penises. He was also the first to go with just the one name, compelling us […]
Read more →In fiction, villains with monocles sip it. In real life, hard-living painters, poets and novelists were once notorious for drinking it into the wee hours and making a nuisance of themselves. Today is NATIONAL ABSINTHE DAY! A wicked green drink, Absinthe is an Anisette-flavored whiskey, overproof and […]
Read more →There, they’re, their, bitches. Grammar. It’s its special day today, so mind your apostrophes and punctuation on NATIONAL GRAMMAR DAY! We English speakers abuse Grammar all the time, especially when we write it. We all went to school, learned the rules of English, many of which were […]
Read more →Rock & Roll was born on March 3, 1951 when Ike Turner’s band recorded what is widely considered the first Rock & Roll song, with legendary producer Sam Phillips (yes, that Sam Phillips) at the board at Sun Studio (yes, that Sun Studio) in Memphis, Tennessee, making […]
Read more →I dig Dr. Seuss’s scene Of Hatted Cats and Grinches Green Of elephants named Horton too And fishes red and green and blue. Hellzyeah, it’s NATIONAL DOCTOR SEUSS DAY! Who didn’t grow up a huge fan of that PhD in English Literature, Theodor Seuss Geisel, best known […]
Read more →Executive Order #10924 was one of President John F. Kennedy’s better ideas, and on March 1, 1961, he mobilized America’s first peaceful army, making today NATIONAL PEACE CORPS DAY! Kennedy first proposed the Peace Corps as a Congressman in 1951, calling for an “army of missionaries for Democracy.” […]
Read more →You won’t find this brand new holiday in any Official Directory of Observances, but it’s sure to catch on. You see, at long last, today is NATIONAL GOOD RIDDANCE FEBRUARY DAY! Winter’s been raging for over 2 months, and you’re thinking homicidal thoughts about your local TV […]
Read more →You’re a 9 foot-tall, fifteen hundred pound mountain of muscle and menace in white fur, living in the frozen north and swimming in the Arctic Ocean like some crazy Scandinavian, and you just happen to be the largest species of terrestrial predator. Must be INTERNATIONAL POLAR BEAR DAY! […]
Read more →In this Era of Dumbass Chic, we can at least console ourselves that we have gotten this far in human progress in spite of the dumbasses we celebrate on NATIONAL SCIENCE DENIAL DAY It was February 26, 1616 when the great astronomer Galileo Galilei was banned by […]
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