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Today is Elephant Appreciation Day, which we learned is a fairly young holiday created in 1996 by a father who was disproportionately elated by the paperweight of elephants parading that his daughter gave him as a gift. Doesn’t he know that paperweights are just about the most thoughtless and empty gifts one can give? At [...]

Our parents used to get us piñatas for our birthday without fail, but ever since they stopped two years ago we’ve tried to repress memories of those papery candy-vessels into the depths of our subconscious. Then, like an uncanny eruption from the depths of our psychic underworld, NOTCOT.ORG called our attention to this, the world’s [...]

A staple of the holidays that nobody really understands (not even Wikipedia) but still tries to excel at, there’s something typically American about absurd gingerbread house design. Not only does it involve turning something joyful, silly and festive into a competition, it also means creating ever larger and sweeter fake homes out of candy, cookies [...]