I hope all the readers of this blog had a Happy Thanksgiving, consuming obscene amounts of turkey while watching grown men play a child’s game. I had a decent Thanksgiving, not enough to gain weight, but I’m on a diet. That and my in-laws generally don’t cook well enough to tempt me off of it. They’re from Ohio. Oh well, enough talk about how mid-westerners have no sense of taste. Let’s talk about starting a new holiday.
As you all know, I’ve long bemoaned our culture’s tendency to turn holidays into months long events that occupy way too much of the calendar just to sell a few more sparkles and do-dads and improve the bottom line. We need more holidays, not longer holidays. That’s why I am introducing Pandemonium Day, a new holiday I have started with no financial incentive whatsoever.
As you know, I am disparately attempting to hock my new novel, Christmas in Pandemonium. I’ll leave a link below, but it’s a story about a town founded by Satanists 400 years ago and what happens when a crooked televangelist comes to town to drum up fame and fortune. The story begins on…wait for it…the First Sunday of Advent! Yes, the book uses the liturgical calendar, partly because the headmaster of my Catholic high school once suggested we make First Sunday of Advent resolutions rather than New Years Eve resolutions. I’m sure he thought that idea would rock like Led Zeppelin, but it went over more like an actual lead zeppelin.
Anyway, the book starts with the First Sunday of Advent, when Fr. Gabe Strobel is assigned to the Catholic Church in Pandemonium, which has no parishioners because Pandemonium has no Catholics. The parish exists to make it look like the Diocese of Charleston is doing something about the whole worshiping Satan thing. The crooked televangelist comes to town this day as well. It’s the first full day in the Pandemonium Timeline. So, in honor of my book, and my old headmaster, I declare today Pandemonium Day! You can celebrate by buying my book!
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