Let’s just say there’s a lot going on this February 5. We all know/have been burgeoned with constant reminders that today is a Very Special Day in the world of trying to steer the Titanic away from that fateful iceberg. That’s all well and dandy, but people who celebrate the more, er, common things in life shouldn’t feel left out.
International Pankcake Day, or “Shrove Tuesday” helps kick off Lent. IHOP is claiming Pancake Day is next Tuesday because of the supermassive electoral hoedown, but damnit, pancake-loving Catholics need a diversion from the horse race and, frankly, nearly tasteless flatbread in their fat bellies.
If that isn’t enough to take your mind off politics, the dangerous levels of intoxication and bared breasts will. Today is also Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras, which, like it’s pancake-gnoshing cousin, marks the beginning of Lent, but quite unlike it, celebrates with a booze-soaked orgy. Counterintuitive, I know.
It’s important to rock the vote – but equally important to congratulate yourself on a job well done by celebrating all three events simultaneously. Opportunities like this come once in a lifetime. When else will disparate threads converge in such a way that it’s socially acceptable to drink heavily, vote and go get pancakes – not necessarily in that order?
