Good intentions are one thing, but if you don't want to be paying for the festivities this time next year you'll need to be disciplined.
I know that on 25 May, Terry Pratchett fans will be wearing lilac to honour the author – the date is a Discworld reference – and that 25 May is Towel Day, but I hadn't heard of 28 August's Read Comics in Public Day until Dee mentioned it, and I would most certainly have dug out my (as-yet unbroached) copy of Gravity's Rainbow on Sunday if I'd known about the Pynchon festivities in time.
There's no special occasion for the festivities, but any time is good to revisit and consider in depth one of the all-time jazz greats and a crucial link from the swing era to the overt modernism of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, and that's what they're doing, throughout the month of October — and starting tonight at 7 — at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.
The anniversary festivities included burying time capsules to be unearthed 50 years from now.
Although marked by magnificent festivities, at the time they took place the alliances were not seen as politically important, not even by the Imperial ambassador Jehan de Scheyfye, who was the most suspicious observer.
The girls really sharpened their claws for this evening's festivities, and every time one girl sat down to talk to Sean, another came in and stole him away.
However, unlike New Year's Rockin' Eve, festivities from Times Square were also broadcast live across the entire country instead of tape-delayed for the West Coast, since the special broadcast midnight festivities in other cities and time zones for the remainder of the night, as they had done throughout the day.
But in Britain Scotlandd's Premier League also has a full slate of games), the festivities are a time-honored and much-loved highlight of the sporting calendar, despite a degree of clamor from some for a continental-style winter break.
The thought of the buzz of race-time festivities sprang to mind: women in white linen and spectator pumps, men in blue blazers and striped ties, celebrating after a particularly fortuitous win.
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