Here’s a beauty of a day, combining the real and the surreal, the unattainable with the material. It’s a holiday of the mind and spirit on NATIONAL RAINBOW DAY! Spring is here, with its April showers and cold, clean sunshine, giving us nature’s own light show, the […]
Read more →Tis Spring, ’tis Spring, the bird is on the wing! Absurd, absurd, the wing is on the bird! The first day of Spring is as good a day as any for nonsense verse. It’s SPRING EQUINOX! Never is Spring sweeter than after a cruel Winter, and lately our […]
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 →It’s nowhere near the middle of summer, those pavement and brain-melting days of early August, but ancient tradition demands we lay off the word “solstice” today, so as not to confuse us backward peasants into thinking we displeased some god or goddess of fertility or another, and […]
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