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Friday, January 8, 2010

Weird Wednesday Holiday Edition

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I'm more of a Festivus guy, but apparently there are weird and wacky holidays every day of the year -- and that's just in the good ol' USA, where we can find a reason to "celebrate" anything. If you chart global weird holidays you have to zoom the chart out an order of magnitude. So in this holiday edition I'm going to stick to weird US holidays, the dates for which are lovingly curated by the best our nation has to offer: awesome high school kids. Of course, if you want to chime in with your Buy Foxes Days and New Gear Unboxing days, leave 'em in the comments.

Shout out to Hiawatha High School and Paxton High School for a collaborative calendar effort by Larissa Wilson and Colleen Gilg called Bizarre American Holidays. Their description says it all:

"Only in the USA can we celebrate the glory of egg salad, dictionaries, and procrastination. Here we celebrate these lesser known holidays. You won't find boring holidays like Thanksgiving and Mother's Day in here!"

So, happy National Chocolate Covered Anything Day, Larissa and Colleen -- I shall eat a chocolate covered something today in your honor.

Our next resource could be nominated for a Fugly Friday, I guess, but who cares what these holiday sites look like, right? Let's face it, there's a time-honored tradition of the tacky sweater, so why not extrapolate to your site? Brownielocks has an even more extensive and frequently-updated calendar of bizarre holidays, despite their old-skool design chops. I learned from them that today isn't just about chocoloate, oh no. It is also about Barbie and Barney Backlash (people still give a dinosaur's tail about Barney?). Plus, the Thursday before Christmas is National Re-gifting day! There are some weekly and monthly observances listed, plus the panoply of religious holidays on the list. Brownielocks has done a great job, to be sure.

If you just want a 2010 Holiday calendar to import, check out Calendar Labs. You can also add these in Google Calendar without much fuss.

Lastly, I'd like to show you some candy. Weird candy. Gingerbread malted milk balls, anyone?


Photo: ThisParticularGreg / CC BY-SA 2.0

Weird Wednesday Holiday Edition originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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