“But one strange wild dark long year, Halloween came early. One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight.”…
Treat Yo Self Day (Oct 13).
Tom and Donna (Parks and Rec) have an annual tradition to splurge on themselves and hit the three S’s: spa,…
Mean Girls Day (Oct 3).
On this date, Aaron Samuels turned around and finally spoke to Cady, asking her what day it was. “It’s October…
Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked. (Sept 30, 1659)
Basically, Crusoe gets stranded on this island for 28 years. Yeah. The English major among us wants you to know…
Mr. Collins arrives at Longbourn (29 Sept)
On Michaelmas the condescending clergyman Mr. Collins arrives at Longbourn to stay with his relatives the Bennets. Oh, and choose…
A Monet is stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (late Sept)
A group of bungling thieves-for-hire sneak into the museum by hiding in a statue of a horse and later pose…
Talk like a Pirate Day (Sept 19).
Today is the day when we celebrate the dialect that we all have heaaarrrrrrty feelings about–Talk Like a Pirate Day!…
Tally and Shay’s 16th Birthday (Sept 9)
Tally and Shay became friends shortly before their 16th birthdays (on Sept 9th) when they were supposed to have mandatory…
The stock of d’Anconia Copper crashes. (Sept 3)
Francisco d’Anconia causes a number of fires and cave-ins to his own copper mines, deliberately crushing the wealth of his…
The First Week of August
“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the…