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[camwyn]

Happy Dead Gangsters Day, y'all! Celebrate by renting something with Jimmy Cagney or Edgar G. Robinson in it, or Jackie Chan's "Miracles" if you're so inclined! Also, today is the Eve of the Feast of St. Mark Downs, the four-times-a-year holiday of stocking the freezer with heavily discounted candy.



... look, given how many people I know are of the 'Valentine's Day suxx0r' persuasion, I thought it might be good to have an alternative holiday that did not specifically encourage crankiness and railing about the Corrupt and Stupid and Commercial Nature of the Artificially Selected Joke of a Reference to a Dead Roman Guy and his Dead Roman Religious Celebrations. Far as I'm concerned it's Dead Gangster Day and St. Mark Downs Eve, and nobody has to disparage anybody for any reason whatsoever. Or arse themselves to explain the True Nature of St. Valentine/Lupercalia, either. Just watch some movies and prepare to buy candy.

Comments

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

That is the most constructive approach I have seen to this in a long time. Well done.

[indy-go.livejournal.com]

Happy Dead Gangsters to you! That particular landmark is just up the street from me.

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

I just read Breslin's "The Good Rat", which should have me covered for gangster lit.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Word!

See icon!

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

It could also be Ides of February Eve. Which is a bit awkward to say, but there you are.

[camwyn]

Well, the Feast of St. Mark Downs comes four times a year. The other three are Easter Monday, the First of November, and December 26th.

[erisiansaint]

That's beautiful!

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Top of the world, Ma!

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

*laughing* That is AWESOME.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Hee. Dead Gangster Day. Love it!

[midnightlurker.livejournal.com]

No one will understand this, but the patron of Dead Gangsters Day is a little gray kitten named Shiro, wearing a feudal Japanese outfit and carrying a tommygun.

[firestrike.livejournal.com]

One doomsday should be enough for any kitten
-Miaowara Tomokato

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Happy St. Mark Downs's day to you.