Feeling the Urge to Celebrate?

White Day is just a little less than a week away. I'm holding my breath and hoping for a big diamond ring set in old world rubies and emralds! (Ok, not really.)

If you are, at this moment, scratching your head and muttering aloud that you really have no idea what I'm talking about, you can take a quick look at my little essay (that adjective will be funny once you take a look) on the Japanese customs of Valentine's Day and White Day from last year. It's under the March 2005 Archives and is my first entry titled, "Luv, Luv, Luv".

Basically, in Japan, women give to men on V-day, and so as not to feel dejected, (and so the big businesses of Consumerism can continue to rib the unsuspecting men and women of this island nation in the gut with it's large horns) White day was created. W-Day occurs on March 14th, one month after V-day. This is when men return the lavish gifts they received on V-day, and give to women.

Well, turns out there's a new holiday on March 14th in the US which share the same intrinsic principals of Japanese customs. However, in the US, men generally give to women on V-day and now, women shall give to men on this new holiday. (If they're not turned off on it's overall tastelessness.) I think this new holiday really speaks volumes of the differences between men in women in the good old US of A (and probably various other places around the world).

Check it out here:
(I warn you... this is for mature readers only!)

http://www.steakandbjday.com/

However you decide to celebrate, enjoy your March 14th. I think, however, I am going to reserve my merrymaking for September 19th -- Talk Like a Pirate Day.

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/