'A Festivus for the rest of us' starts catching on
By ALLEN SALKIN
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Gather around the Festivus pole and listen to a tale about a real
holiday made fictional and then real again, a tale that touches on
philosophy, King Lear, the pool at the Chateau Marmont hotel, a paper
bag with a clock inside and, oh yes, a television show about nothing.
The first surprise is that all over the country, many real people are
holding parties celebrating Festivus, a holiday most believe was
invented on an episode of "Seinfeld" first broadcast the week before
Christmas in 1997.
"More and more people are familiar with what Festivus is, and it's
growing," said Jennifer Galdes, a Chicago restaurant publicist who
organized her first Festivus party three years ago. "This year many more
people, when they got the invite, responded with, 'Will there be an
airing of the grievances and feats of strength?' "
The full article can be read at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/204832_festivus.html
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Gregory Gadow
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"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary,
in
the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary,
self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very
definition
of tyranny." - James Madison, _The Federalist_, #47
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