Call it the day before the austere Lenten Season, a wild street party, Carnival or Mardi Gras, the idea is to overindulge in everything on FAT TUESDAY! If you want to know the exact origins of Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday, ask an anthropologist, but Margaret Meade doesn’t work at bobcrespo.com. As far as our […]
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 3/1/22- FAT TUESDAY! Read More »
It’s THANKSGIVING DAY, when we show our gratitude and humility, so we offer this simple prayer: Oh Lord, we are your humble servants and thankful we only have to eateth this ponderous provender but once a year. If there is a drier, more tasteless bird in all Your vast Creation, oh Lord, we
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On this date in 1956, Elvis Presley made his acting debut in a forgettable piece of crap called “Love Me Tender,” launching his movie career and making today NATIONAL ELVIS MOVIE DAY! The King made 31 movies in all, usually playing a handsome young rebel with a guitar who gets in and out of trouble,
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In the 1990s I worked at the San Gennaro Feast in Manhattan’s Little Italy for about 5 years running, an 11-day affair that saw Mulberry Street transformed for 12 blocks starting at Canal Street and ending on Houston Street. This is the largest, longest and most famous Italian American street fair in the country, and
THE GHOSTS OF SAN GENNARO FEASTS PAST, OR WHY I HATED RUDY BEFORE HATING RUDY WAS COOL Read More »
Men might might call this “The Perfect Girlfriend Day,” but the calendar informs us that it’s NATIONAL SINGLE WORKING WOMEN’S DAY! Hurray for our single working women, the schoolmarms, secretaries, librarians, shop clerks, maids and flower girls. And also the doctors, lawyers, cabbies, electricians, cops, truckers and executives of the single female persuasion. A lot
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There’s no sound quite like the pipe organ music that announces their presence even before you lay eyes on them, and when you do get a look, you’re seeing Paradise on a spinning platform, with the painted ponies, carriages and other creatures all saddled up and waiting for you on NATIONAL CAROUSEL DAY! Merry-Go-Round is
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/28/21 – CAROUSEL DAY! Read More »
People just walked down the middle of street before February 24, 1868, when someone in New Orleans had the brainstorm to build a rolling stage for the Mardi Gras Parade, making today NATIONAL PARADE FLOAT DAY! Leave it to New Orleans, our most colorful and imaginative city, to invent a joyful spectacle to mark our
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Who cares what holiday falls today? Dammit, it’s FULL MOON FRIDAY THE 13TH! Run for your lives! Jason’s coming, Freddy too, and it’s a full moon tonight so werewolves and vampires will be on the prowl. At least that’s what they tell us, so be a sport and play along. Frankenstein’s monster and his blushing
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It was 1793 and France was torn by a bloody revolution that saw the ranks of the aristocracy considerably thinned by a peasantry fed up with subsidizing the decadent wealthy while they starved. The French Revolution had been brewing for decades, but what lit the powder keg that made everything go kablooey were the remarks of
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/16/20 – “HOW’S THE CAKE, MARIE?” DAY! Read More »
Okay, it’s the first Monday of the year, so it’s best to just get this holiday out of the way and move on with our lives. For worse, not better, today is NATIONAL BLUE MONDAY! There’s one every week you say, 52 Miserable Mondays a year, so, why single out this one? Well, for the
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