Word: festivus
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...something is rotten this holiday season at the Apple App Store. With all the hoop-de-doo about Christmas and Hanukah, another holiday that people normally observed in December is utterly unrepresented as of this writing: Festivus...
Where is the Festivus Pole app, commemorating the holiday's traditional, simple, unadorned aluminum pole? Or what about a Grievances List app, so that one can keep track of all the things people did during the past year that disappointed? It would certainly help observers recite them during the Airing of Grievances, which typically occurs after Festivus Dinner...
Allen Salkin, who wrote the canonical Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us, and became the unofficial spokesman for the anti-holiday - popularized by a 1997 episode of Seinfeld - does not see any conspiracy here. "Fundamentally Festivus is cheap," he pointed out. "And I say this as someone who wants you to buy the new and updated paperback version of the book for $9.99 this year...
There were career frustrations too. The acting work in L.A. was spotty and hardly satisfying. "You get a Seinfeld episode, and people still to this day think that's a big deal," he says. "'You were on the Festivus episode.' That was four days out of my life!" He knew it was time to leave when he was kicking himself for losing out on a regular role in V.I.P., the Pamela Anderson action series. He drove to Chicago to appear in a Steppenwolf production of Glengarry Glen Ross and decided to stay...
...really nice guy.” In the time Kargère has been at Cabot, he said that the House has seen through at least two student-focused initiatives. Following a controversy over the holiday season several years ago, Kargère pushed for the celebration of Festivus, the Seinfeld-inspired multi-cultural celebratory event that uses an aluminum pole in the place of a Christmas tree. The House also transformed a largely unused underground space into “one of the nicest weight rooms” in the House system, he said. Luciana Herman, an expository writing...