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Iceworm Festival Preview and Absurd Annual Dates
A satirical survey lists a year packed with bizarre events and odd holidays from Iceworm Festival in February to various national weeks and quirky days across months. It lampoons publicity hype and civic boosterism by enumerating the oddball calendar of spelled out observances and places them in a humorous, stranger-than-fiction pattern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Laurel and Hardy
Fukuoka
Japan
Millard Fillmore
Benjamin Franklin
Philadelphia