Perhaps the post about towel day peaked your literary holiday curiosity (what sort of phrase was that?) Anyhow. I did some digging just for you ma' babies.
By the way it seems this month is National Under-Appreciated Librarian Month as well as Get Caught Reading Month
Library Lovers month - February
National Book Month - October
National Library Week--4th week in April
Reading is Fun Week--4th week in April
Read a New Book Month--December
Read Me Day--April 23
On this day, wear clothes that everyone can read.
National Storytelling Festival--October 5
Tell a Story Day--April 27
Read an Almanac Month--July
Dictionary Day--October 16
Card Reading Day--February 21
National Columnists Day--June 27
Humorists Are Artists Too Month (HAAM)--March
Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month--September
Poetry Month--March
Great Poetry Reading Day--April 28
Bad Poetry Reading Day--August 18
Limerick Day--May 12
Clerihew Day--July 10
Mother Goose Day--May 1
Winnie the Pooh Day--January 18
Paul Bunyan Day--June 28
Tom Sawyer Fence Painting Day--July 4
Tolkien Week--Last week in September
Hobbit Day--September 22
Alfred Hitchcock Day--March 12
Eliza Doolittle Day--May 20
Dear Diary Day--September 22
Plan Your Epitaph Day--November 1
List of Authors birthdays
Thanks to Today in Literature you can literally become more aware of bookish history ;)
I also turned up the calendar of literary facts. Just click on the month and day you wish to know more about and there you have it.
Literary significance of each month in the year
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Monday, May 26, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
NERD PRIDE DAY!!!
Appropriately today is also Nerd Pride Day. A day celebrating the right for each and every one of us to embrace our geek or nerdiness.
This particular holiday only began in 2006 in celebration of the premier of the 1st Star Wars movie in 1977.
This particular holiday only began in 2006 in celebration of the premier of the 1st Star Wars movie in 1977.
HAPPY TOWEL DAY!
It's that time of year again. May 25th - towel day. Celebrated every year t this time as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams.
Towel day 1st began in 2001. It was held to demonstrate fans mourning the passing of Adams.
Douglas Adams' own ode to a towel:
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very, very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
The original article that began towel day from Binary Freedom:
Towel day links of note:
http://www.towelday.kojv.net/
http://www.towelday.org/
http://greatzarquon.tripod.com/
http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/?ART=197
http://www.towel-day.com/en/
Wikihow to celebrate towel day
Towelini - another good resource for all your towel day needs
Towel day 1st began in 2001. It was held to demonstrate fans mourning the passing of Adams.
Douglas Adams' own ode to a towel:
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very, very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
The original article that began towel day from Binary Freedom:
Towel Day: A Tribute to Douglas Adams
Monday May 14, 2001 06:00am PDTDouglas Adams will be missed by his fans worldwide. So that all his fans everywhere can pay tribute to this genius, I propose that two weeks after his passing (May 25, 2001) be marked as "Towel Day". All Douglas Adams fans are encouraged to carry a towel with them for the day, and preferably quote the popular books and television series constantly..
So long Douglas, and thanks for all the fish!
Towel day links of note:
http://www.towelday.kojv.net/
http://www.towelday.org/
http://greatzarquon.tripod.com/
http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/?ART=197
http://www.towel-day.com/en/
Wikihow to celebrate towel day
Towelini - another good resource for all your towel day needs
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