Mixed Meters

Humans need holidays. Otherwise our lives would get just too bleak. And what could be more bleak than the winter solstice in the northern...

Today is Towel Day .   As literary holidays go celebrating the works of author Douglas Adams isn't quite yet in the league of Bloomsday...

American culture is just chock full of fun holidays which combine the celebration of competition with crass consumerism. For example ther...

The Hanukkah holiday is here. Hooray. I guess. Although this is one celebration which leaves me with some doubts: Without any children to ...

The fire fighters who died rushing into the burning towers trying to save the lives of other people will surely define the word heroism for ...

In 1894, when the U.S. government decided on a holiday to celebrate working people, they picked a date in September instead of May first, th...

Today is Memorial Day, in which we remember those who have died in wartime. I took this picture in South Pasadena. There are plaques for...

Today, April 20, 2010, would have been the 121st birthday of Adolph Hitler. Usually Los Angeles has no public celebrations of Hitler's ...

Click here to read the first Stalking the Christmas Penguin. It discusses the geographic illiteracy of Americans and answers the question ...

View another deflated icon here and here. Inflated Tags: turkey . . . inflatable sculpture . . . holiday decorations

Mixed Meters advocates a careful re-thinking of holiday celebrations in the United States. Click here to read previous MM holiday-related p...

It's become a Mixed Meters Tradition to post some of my original holiday music - this year again based on a tune you'll recognize. ...

December 7 (" a date which will live in infamy ") has to move over to make room for new days of infamy. Click here for a Google ...