Extensive research (like, two minutes on Google is pretty extensive in short-attention span land, right?) has revealed to me that today's commemorative assignation was instigated by the Wellness Permission League, an apparently ad hoc organization started by Pennsylvanians Tom Roy and his wife Ruth, for the sole purpose of appearing to possess the authority to invent such holidays as the above-referenced one, as well as others- for example, Eat What You Want Day ( May 11th), Northern Hemisphere Hoo-Dee-Doo Day (February 20th ), and Call in Because You're Well Day ( November 30th). In order to be deemed adequately credentialed to create Panic Day (March 9th), the Roys transformed themselves into the International Sky is Falling Committee.
From the LA Times:
Roy and his wife, Ruth, have created these holidays, along with at least 37 other special observances, celebrated across the country. They are listed, soberly and with majestic prestige, in Chase's 1997 Calendar of Events, the nation's annual bible of extraordinary occasions.
Chase's is America's foremost authority on special days and events. It is consulted by officials and plain folks from Washington to Topeka to Hollywood, for its listing of presidential proclamations, the date of the Kansas State Barbecue Championship, or the selection of movies placed on the National Film Registry. It is the most complete compendium of such things available.
"Mere frivolity!", you may well exclaim. But my hat's off to these folks, who obviously recognize the benefits of not taking oneself too seriously. And on a blog nominally devoted to creativity and productivity, it seems quite obvious to note here the most fertile of the muses, at work. Judging the productive valuation in inventing weird holidays..... well, that depends on your yardstick for "productivity". For me, if it makes somebody smile, it meets my definition of that word. Hey, small town.... nuthin' to do....., might as well.
So, despite my lack of credentials for doing so, I am declaring today Bass Fiddle Players Day, or, alternately, Feel Good Despite Yourself Day.
Today's architectural features, from DesignMilk:
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