Friday, February 9, 2007

A song for Nathanukah

(...with apologies to Adam Sandler)

Put on your yarmulke
Here comes Nathanukah
So much funukah
To celebrate Nathanukah

Nathanukah is the festival of Bud Lights
Instead of one day of partying,
Nathan has eight crazy nights

When you feel like the only kid in town without a place to be
Heres a list of people who work at AGE just like you and me
Rick Newton hangs out on 4A
So do Avichal Jain and Lois Lewis-ay

Put on your yarmulke
Its time for Nathanukah
The owner of the seattle supersonicahs
Celebrates Nathanukah

Tell your friend veronica
Its time to celebrate Nathanukah
I hope I get a harmonicah
Oh this lovely, lovely Nathanukah
So drink your gin and tonicah
And smoke your marijuanikah
If you really, really wannakah
Have a happy, happy, happy, happy Nathanukah
Happy Nathanukah!

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Greetings

Greetings All

Please join me in the coming week to celebrate my birthday. As you may already have heard, the eight days starting on February 10th have been dubbed Nathanukah. Nathanukah, a new holiday, was born out of the frustration I have felt when some of my best friends cannot joint in festivities due to previous commitments. My solution to this dilemma is a multi-day affair, eight days in fact, to increase the odds of everyone being able to do something, some time. And, in the interest of full disclosure, I must credit my co-worker Lois for coining this brilliant turn-of-phrase.

Nathanukah 2007 consists of 13 events over 8 days, including caving, skiing, food, art, as well as performances by They Might Be Giants and Natron Baxter -- a complete schedule of which is listed on the website, http://www.nathanukah.com. I hope you will make at least one, if not all of the events. Each event is open to all, and I hope you'll invite your friends too. My mission is to get interesting people together to have a good time!

For those of you who cannot make any of the events for one reason or another, and especially if you're out of town, I'll hope you'll take advantage of the Internet and post your own Nathanukah musings on the Nathanukah blog ( http://nathanukah.blogspot.com), your pictures on Flickr or your videos on YouTube. Be sure and tag your content "Nathanukah" so we can find them easily!

Finally, there is an extensive line of Nathanukah merchandise available in the Nathanukah store -- checkout http://www.cafepress.com/nathanukah to see what we have to offer. Order soon so you can show your Nathanukah pride at events next week!

Nathan

Google Results for "Nathanukah"

1:06 AM CST on Friday morning and Google returns no results for the search term "Nathanukah".... How long until Google picks it up?

Contribute to Nathanukah 2007!

I want you to contribute to the Nathanukah blog!

Send me an email and we can work together to get it setup.

Also, tag your FLICKR and YOU TUBE content with "NATHANUKAH" so it gets picked up by the website automatically.

Nathan