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I’ll preface this by saying that I’ve never seen an episode of Seinfeld. But I know someone who’s throwing a Festivus party, so I figured I should read about it.

Wikipedia told me that the idea of the holiday came from the father of one of the show’s writers, Daniel O’Keefe, and further reported that O’Keefe wrote Stolen Lightning: A Social Theory of Magic. “The work deals with idiosyncratic ritual and its social significance” — and is, as such, a kickass reference book. At least I hope so, ’cause I just ordered it.

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  • sdn
    December 1, 2005 at 9:00 am

    i’ve never seen seinfeld either. i figured: i grew up with it, why would i voluntarily watch it?

    someone wished me “happy festivus” once and i thought it was a pagan holiday.

  • capn_jil
    December 1, 2005 at 9:06 am

    The word “festivus” makes me want to kick people in the teeth.

  • thisisnotanlj
    December 1, 2005 at 9:11 am

    but so many things make you want to do that…

  • thisisnotanlj
    December 1, 2005 at 9:11 am

    i guess it sort of is. sort of.

  • capn_jil
    December 1, 2005 at 9:34 am

    For different reasons, though! For different reasons!

  • nevikmoore
    December 1, 2005 at 3:34 pm

    There are several episodes of Seinfeld that are truly worth watching. The Festivus episode is definitely one of them. A lot of the humor comes not only from the writing but from the character’s behavior. Jerry Stiller is brilliant here.

    And that sounds like an awesome party.

  • indulgent_el
    December 7, 2005 at 8:05 am

    Do you have a TV? Because Seinfeld is literally -always- on – seems like you’d accidentally watch it . . . even without cable, I’ve seen more’n I care to . . .