12.28.2012

Good Riddance Day (Times Square, New York)

       "On December 28, say goodbye to your worst memory from 2012 once and for all on Good Riddance Day.
        Whether you're bidding farewell to pink slips or parking tickets, credit cards or Valentine's Day cards, your bad memories from 2012 will be destroyed, never to be seen again. A Cintas secure, mobile shredding truck along with a dumpster and sledgehammer were on hand to discard any distasteful, embarrassing and downright depressing memories from 2012.
         Good Riddance Day is inspired by a Latin American tradition in which New Year’s revelers put artifacts from the previous year into giant dolls and set them on fire.

12.18.2012

Twelve Days of Christmas (song)

           The "TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS" is an English Christmas carol that enumerates a series of increasingly grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas.
The twelve days in the song are the twelve days starting Christmas Day, or in some traditions, the day after Christmas (December 26) (Boxing Day or St. Stephen's Day, as being the feast day of St. Stephen Protomartyr) to the day before Epiphany, or the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6, or the Twelfth Day). The Twelfth Night is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "the evening of the fifth of January, preceding Twelfth Day, the eve of the Epiphany, formerly the last day of the Christmas festivities and observed as a time of merrymaking."
           Currently, the twelve days and nights are celebrated in widely varying ways around the world. For example, some give gifts only on Christmas Day, some only on Twelfth Night, and some each of the twelve nights, with each day of the Twelve Days representing a wish for a corresponding month of the new year.
           The "Twelve Days of Christmas" is a cumulative song, meaning that each verse is built on top of the previous verses. There are twelve verses, each describing a gift given by "my true love" on one of the twelve days of Christmas ...and so forth, until the last verse:
TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS