Looking to add a little bitterness to your holiday season? Then FESTIVUS is the book you cannot do without! Take Frosty out behind the woodshed and hide your menorahs, kinaras, diyas and whatevahs...the time has come for Festivus! The event celebrated by Frank Costanza (Jerry Stiller) on Seinfeld, in which a bare aluminum pole replaces all holiday and religious symbols, where participants compete in "feats of strength" and undertake the "airing of grievances," has transcended television to become a worldwide phenomenon. In this side-splitting romp through the Festivus landscape, Allen Salkin meets Miss Festivus, tastes Festivus beer, and ponders the Festivus snail (along with Festy the cat), showing how anyone with a little creativity-and a dash of Costanza-can celebrate a Happy Festivus!
I've done a lot of different jobs and been a lot of places. You can decide if that's good or bad or both or neither. I have cast industrial films in Hong Kong, wholesaled rubber duckies in Las Vegas, picked oranges in Crete, peddled oil paintings door-to-door in Western Australia, and penned stories on subjects ranging from the last waterbed salesman in the San Francisco Bay Area to corruption in the Brooklyn Courts for The New York Times, Details, Heeb, Cargo, Yoga Journal, The Village Voice and other venues. I've also taught Journalism at NYU and MediaBistro.com.
I should also say that I like whirlpool bathtubs a great deal. I do not require a super-large one that fits in a corner. A large, but regular bath-shaped tub is fine. I strongly prefer bathing to showering. It is a daily luxury available to the non-rich only recently in historical time.
