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I have just opened my calendar for 2008. Much to my delight, it's full of semiobscure birthdays. Since I am a person who would and does celebrate anything I can make a dinner entree for**, I am melodiously happy over the prospect of having a tiny party every week for my favorite authors, inventors, and social figures. Sausage and Gingerbread for Brothers Grimm days! Peanut Chicken to honor George Washington Carver! Hurling canned meat to the floor and writing my congressman in disgust on the birthday of Upton Sinclair!

What's your favorite personal celebration? Forget the big Xmas-Halloween-Birthday stuff. What's the best weird local or cult event in your year? Local harvest festival? Talk Like An Anachronism Day? The Streetwide Food Fight? What helps you mark the year?



*Note that this is non-alcoholic Nog. I just really love nutmeg.

** Especially if it involves revolutions, failed or otherwise(1). Our household already celebrates Texas Independence Day, Bastille Day, and the Fourth of July, and we're adding the Ides of March and the Boxer Rebellion this year.

(1) But not if they're Russian. The only thing to celebrate about Russian history, so far as I can see, is the fact that I wasn't there.