Lately, I have been noticing an abundance of so-called "holidays" that have been springing up. Many of them involve food. For instance, this past Sunday, September 18, was National Cheeseburger Day. This was a few days after National Double Cheeseburger Day. Many fast food restaurants had special deals for cheeseburgers not only for Sunday, but also for the day before and a few days after as well. Of course, not all of these holidays involve food. There's just so much to go around. This past Monday, September 19, was National Talk Like a Pirate Day. People are encouraged to speak the way pirates would speak, or at least the traditional pop culture references of how pirates would speak. Actual pirates probably wouldn't have used such inflections or so many obscure nautical references, but I could be wrong. The same way Vikings are portrayed with horned helmets wrong. Anyway, today, Wednesday, September 21, has many such holidays associated with it. Some of them include International Day of Peace, International Banana Festival, World Gratitude Day, World Alzheimer's Day, National Chai Day, National Pecan Cookie Day, Miniature Golf Day, and Escapology Day. The last one is about magicians who get themselves out of seemingly impossible situations. Also, Oktoberfest started this past Saturday, September 17, and will continue until October 3. That's right, most of the festival takes place in September and not October. Be careful with your beer and sausage intake. One last 'holiday' associated with today happens to be Earth, Wind and Fire Day. The R & B group, not the classical elements. I believe Los Angeles issued this date a few years ago, but I might be mistaken on that too. Today's date was chosen because of a lyric in their classic hit "September." The strange thing about this is that one of the songwriters for "September" only chose this date because the rhythm fit the song better than any of the other possibilities. The songwriter had absolutely nothing about their life otherwise associated with the date. The song has even been adapted into a sort of Christmas tune, "December," with just a minor change in lyrics about the month, and changing the day to the twenty-fourth or fifth, sometimes. I haven't listened to the song in a while, so I don't remember it exactly. I happen to know someone whose birthday is on today. I've Rick-rolled him with a video of the song, and a few others, in messages to him. He probably gets them from a few others as well, as long as it is a good version of the song, and not a weird cover of it. I remember one cover by Taylor Swift from a few years ago. Very weird interpretation. Kind of slow, and slightly down-tempo. My mother hated it, and the song, at least the original, is one of my mother's absolute favorites. Not that cover though. Frankly, most of these so-called holidays leave me a little underwhelmed, as the riff on Madonna in the post's title hinted at. Most of the date's holidays don't work well together, and they feel like the dates were randomly chosen, just like in "September." I mean, what does today's date have to do with pecan cookies. The nut harvest is still a little while off. I mean, the chestnuts are just starting to fall. You wouldn't be able to get that many fresh pecans this soon. Well, maybe enough for a few cookies, but not enough for more than a small pie. And, who has ever heard of pecan cookies? That is not one of the more popular flavors. Personally, I don't like pecans (haven't had them in decades, and I don't like nuts in general anyways), and I don't eat cookies that often. Aye, but it makes more sense than talking like a fake pirate, ye landlubbers.
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