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Due to the H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic Panic shutting down most of the country of Mexico (and some idelogical @$$holes using it against the Mexican people), I suspect the non-Mexicans partying and getting drunk on Cinco De Mayo will far outnumber the Mexicans, putting it on par with the Non-Irish-to-Irish ratio on St. Patrick’s Day. But, yes, I know it wasn’t that big a holiday IN Mexico to start with, like Hanukkah (or Chanuka or Chaka Khan) is for the Jewish Religion. But nothing like the way the eve of the Catholic All Saints Day became the pseudo-pagan Halloween. It seems like America can’t seem to get holidays for the non-majority culture right, but we are one of the very few nations that even try.
Anyway, in honor of the Ol’ Double Nickels (5/5, get it?), I’m going to link to a story I should have mentioned yesterday, when it was Star Wars Day (“May the Fourth Be With You”, a pun so painful I didn’t get it at first ), instead of something about Star Trek Klingons, of all things. Found on one of the 37,218 web sites with names that start with “Slash”, news of a secret Star Wars-related project that you’d have to be a total George Lucas Fanboy to know, or care about. And I carry the shame that, despite living in L.A. until 3.5 years ago, I had not been to Disneyland since before the “Star Tours” ride opened in 1987. But then, when they started featuring “Michael Jackson as Captain Eo” the year before, it scared me away from Disneyland forever. And “Star Tours” replaced my favorite not-so-high-tech attraction in Tomorrowland, Adventure Thru Inner Space, presented by Monsanto (and these days Monsanto is even creepier than Michael Jackson). But anything that used one of the voices of the immortal Paul Frees as narrator can’t be bad!
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