It looks like Festivus is gaining ground in the holiday wars, which is good. Happy Holidays is a lame greeting, and I’m even tiring of my merry new kwanzukah. If  you are in or near NYC this Festivus, you can celebrate with free mac’n'cheese out of an automat, airing of grievances and the raising of the festivus pole at Bamn! on Saint Marks Place. December 23rd of course. It’s a book release party for what else but the new Festivus book, but I’m more interested in the feats of strength - I’m entering Sean and getting a betting pool going too.

I also love that you can Air your Grievances on the festivusbook.com website. Look for a few doozies shortly…

May you have few grievances to air and may you find your own festivus miracle!

Scrambling for that last-minute Christmas gift? Want to support artists who actually publish cartoons of mohammed and live to tell about it? It’s fun, it’s clever, it’s the book that hopes to be banned… it’s

God Wants You Dead - get the book and t-shirt!

Get other shirts too - InfoHaz, Pirates vs Ninjas, Crucified Santa, Uncle Sam Mugger, What Kind of Jew are You, Justice Busted (by pinguino!), it’s more fun than a barrel of, oh wait, nothing is more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

Wow! I don’t have the horizontal space on my building to do something similar, but how fun is this?

http://www.venganza.org/2008/12/12/fsm-holiday-lights/