You’re a big dissapointment. Happy, Festivus!
According to the real-made-ficticioius-made-real-again holiday made famous on Seinfeld, Festivus is held on December 23rd, and requires an aluminum pole in lieu of a Christmas tree.
My wife doesn’t know it yet, but tonight there will be an airing of the grievances and feats of strength before this day concludes. Festivus does not end until the head of the household has been pinned to the ground.
I’d better pick up a few extra bottles of Pinot Grigio on the way home, ’cause it looks like there might be some wrestling tonight.
There’s apprantely a big Festivus party here in Austin this year…even if they did get the date wrong by a day:
The Festivus party to be given in Austin on Christmas Eve eve by Katherine Willis, an actress, and her husband is to include a backyard game of “pitching washers.”
“There’s basically a hole in the ground,” she said. “You try to throw the washers in the hole, and apparently the more you drink the better you get at it.”
A Web Site she has set up provides downloads of a feats of strength challenge card, a list of grievances form and Festivus greeting cards… Another Web site, www.crazygrrl.com, offers Festivus e-mail cards.
To all my friends, family, and sundry other readers, “You’re all a bunch of big dissapointments. Happy Festivus…a holiday for the Rest of Us.
