Yes, Virginia, there is a Festivus

The 'Seinfeld'-fueled, secular pseudo-holiday has grown by leaps and bounds over 9 years

By Joseph P. Kahn, Globe Staff | December 18, 2006

At Julie Doyle's apartment in Quincy recently, party guests gathered to celebrate the season in what has become High Festivus fashion.

A dozen invitees sat around Doyle's living room next to the holiday pole, an aluminum shower rod purchased at Wal-Mart and anchored in a stand filled with clothespins. They enjoyed comfort food (chicken wings, nachos) and holiday music (Tejano) washed down with liberal quantities of holiday cheer.

When the spirit, or Bud Light, moved them, they wrote articles of complaint about their dates and siblings in a ritual known as the Airing of Grievances. These mostly unprintable comments, scrawled on pieces of white cloth, were hung around the ceiling molding, a literal laundry list of annoyances that began with bodily functions and went merrily downhill from there.

Late in the evening came the much-anticipated Feats of Strength, in this case involving a beer pong table, followed by the piece de Festivus: a wrestling match between Doyle and her sister Lindsay, ending with the hostess being pinned to the floor.

A festive time was had by all.

The Full Festivus here:

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