Posts filed under Holidays

Mark Your Calendar...

Friday, June 4: Skull Appreciation Day.  The people at Skull-A-Day have launched a campaign for cranial love. There are many different things you can do to celebrate Skull Appreciation Day, but I can't think of a single one offhand. You can have a party. If post-rapture looting is getting its own fiesta, then S.A.D. can, too. 

Not long after that, on June 21, it's' Strangely Orange Snack Appreciation Day, which, not surprisingly, was created by a friend of the Skull-a-Day crew, Terry Border at Bent Objects. 

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Lisa Brown and filed under Holidays.

Happy Buddha Day

It's Vesak, AKA Buddha's birthday.  Universal peace to all. Period. 

Yes, I could have made placed Buddha in the birthday spotlight this morn, but Dennis friggin' Hopper... look, you can't rank excellence... to each, his own post! 

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Lisa Brown and filed under Fabulousness, Holidays.

All the Mothers!

You rule. Thanks for dealing with us. All the love in the world to you.  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38_MwcGDNhQ]

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Lisa Brown and filed under Holidays.

May the 4th be with you!

It's May 4, and geeks everywhere know what that means: Star Wars Day!

Please enjoy this extra-stupid Star Wars dance-off clip. Contestant #1, disco Chewbacca, kills it! How Leia and Luke won is beyond me. Lame. 

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTA9oLekoUc]

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Lisa Brown and filed under Holidays, Movies, Videos.

It's World Press Freedom Day!

Thanks to the journalists who risk life and limb while doing their jobs. 

Governments: it's your duty to respect and uphold the right to freedom of expression enshrined under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 

Long live freedom of the press!

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Lisa Brown and filed under Holidays.

Happy Easter!

Behold! A sweet Easter lamb cake from the Czech Republic. 

If I didn't know any better, I'd say that cake looks a lot like Mary Poppins. 

At any rate, Happy Easter to those who are into Easter. 

 

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Lisa Brown and filed under Holidays.

Ow.

At least 24 hardcore--er, devout, that is--Filipinos from the Pampanga and Bulacan provinces engaged in a graphic Good Friday crucifixion reenactment yesterday, going so far as to actually have nails driven into their hands and feet. 

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Lisa Brown and filed under Holidays, News.

The Man of the Day

Snoop Dogg posted this pic on his Twitter page today, along with the following message:

Happy 420 to d whole world from snoop dogg aka bob marley reincarnated pupils dilated!! Hahaha smoke a zip n dip to a new trip

We love you, Snoop. Puff, puff, pass!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJq2drq17Q8]

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Lisa Brown and filed under Celebrities, Holidays, Music.

Best. April. Fools. Day. EVER.

Greetings from Nashville! Why am I here? April Fools Day.

You see, I've played an April Fools Day joke on my brother, Zach, every year for 17 years. He's a senior at Vanderbilt University. I flew out here to surprise--and prank--him. His roommate, Craig, was in on the joke. He picked me up from the airport and took me to their house. I hid outside in the bushes w/ air-horn in hand. Craig went inside and told Zach he thought he saw someone messing with his car. Zach came running outside. I blasted the airhorn.

merp.

That's what it sounded like. A pathetic, tiny... merp. Not unlike a wounded small animal. Like the noise Mary Poppins made when I accidentally rolled over on her in bed. Damn discount store air-horn. Evil bargain swag.

Instead of being scared shitless, Zach was confused. He paused, cocked his head and squinted. I jumped out of the bushes. Ohhhhmygawwwd, the look on his face was PRICELESS. He seriously couldn't register what was happening. It was shock and confusion and just total spaced-out craziness. Mission accomplished.

Then we partied.

He's a bit of a jackass, my brother. I'm quite crazy about him.

This promises to be a fab weekend. Naturally, trip notes will be provided.

Happy April Fools Day. Do something stupid to your favorite jackass today.

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Lisa Brown and filed under Fabulousness, Holidays, Travel.

My Epic Ash Wednesday Failure

It's Ash Wednesday, and you know what that means... or do you? For some people, it's a complete mystery. Here's an extra-stupid little story about how I learned about Ash Wednesday.

My parents raised me without religion. For this, I'm quite grateful -- thanks, Mom and Dad. It allowed me to figure it all out on my own. However, I didn't start that process until college, when I took several religion classes, eastern and western, to see what it was all about. Thus, prior to college, I was quite clueless about it all.

Flashback to the early 90s... this was pre-college. I found myself backstage at a Ratt concert. Please shut-up immediately. I don't need your mocking, thankyouverymuch. It was 20 years ago, for cryin' out loud.

Anyway, there I was backstage, thinking I was a total bad-ass, and in walks the head Ratt, singer Stephen Pearcy.

He starts working the room, mixing it up, signing autographs, flirting with the ladies and doing the rockstar thing. He walks up to me and I notice he has a smudge on his forehead.

"Wait, hold still," I instructed as I placed my thumb against the offending smudge and began vigorously wiping it off. "You've got some dirt on your forehead."

Yes, I did.

I had no idea that 1.) it was Ash Wednesday, or 2.) what Ash Wednesday even meant.

I received a very quick Ash Wednesday tutorial from the not-remotely-pleased Ratt master Pearcy, then he sauntered off as far away from yours truly as he could possibly get. That was my cue to exit the backstage area, pronto.

And that, my friends, was how I learned about Ash Wednesday.

This gives all new meaning to the lyrics from the Ratt song, You're in Trouble:

And I will only tell you once/You're in trouble/What are you gonna do?/You're in trouble/I got a finger on you/You're in trouble

True story. FML.

 

 

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Lisa Brown and filed under Celebrities, Holidays.