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My favorite holiday is the one where we get shitfaced while celebrating shitty posts about how "white people" appropriate other holidays as an excuse to drink (BUT NOT THIS HOLIDAY!)

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I'm actually kinda for the whole "Americans celebrating other people's holidays as an excuse to drink" thing. It's like, yeah, we like you guys, we will hoist a beer in celebration of your triumph, you're cool, let's get along in general or something maybe.

That said I'm a white transwoman so maybe I'm just kinda totally down with honky cultural appropriation in general, I dunno. I'm pretty happy about seeing so many straight friends with rainbow icons after this Friday's decision; they may not be queer but they give absolutely no shits about me being queer.

Mostly I just want "my people's" alleged holiday, Columbus Day, to die horribly. I have never even been alive at a time when Italians were oppressed beyond "boy we sure do think you're a bunch of stylish criminals and mustachioed pizza men," which ain't exactly oppression. I guess it's still an okay excuse to get drunk and take a day off, but then, so is "gee, we really regret that we're related to this guy who chopped your ancestors' hands off for fun and profit."

Is Columbus Day even a 'get drunk' holiday? I always think of it as a 'maybe a half day off of school with the banks and post offices closed' holiday. We need to start campaigning for *googles* Festa della Reppublica instead. Americans will basically get drunk if you tell them it's Independence Day for someone else.

Also, yknow, I am like half Italian myself. Let's learn the Italian national anthem and go out to a bar and get drunk and sing it next June 2. And maybe learn the French national anthem to do the same on Bastille Day what with me being half French. It has these totally metal lyrics about "bathing our fields in the blood of enemies".

Y'know, we're both bisexual. How about we celebrate Da Vinci day on June 15?

Er, I mean April 15. Typo!

You wouldn't want to over-tax yourselves.

What would we do to celebrate it? Do we cosplay as Mona and the Virtuvian Man?

I'm sorry, I have to stop you right there; I need to get this framed.

And more importantly, what funny color should our drinks be?

Retrograde strawman!

Alex, what is "the name of my new alt-country Radiohead cover band?"

We do a jugband version of "Karma Police" that'll knock the corn right outta your hole.

I'm always in favor of more holidays being celebrated. If people get a day off for pride in the future, then all is well.

Thank you for this, It compliments my thoughts quite nicely.