Happy Valentines Day
Everybody got their whips and werewolf masks ready for tomorrow’s Lupercalia festivities?
read more »Everybody got their whips and werewolf masks ready for tomorrow’s Lupercalia festivities?
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Okay, you’ve celebrated Valentines Day and Lupercalia and now you need the opportunity to laugh about both Hallmark love holidays and fertility. You need look no farther than the the online archive of the old BLT punk rock humor zine I mentioned earlier. The Valentine’s Day/Birth Control issue of BLT is taglined Boyfriends, Lesbians, & [...]
read more »I guess, after I much I went on about Star Wars this month, you all know what I’m doing today. The spelling of Valentines Day has always bothered me. VDay is an easy abbreviation. Valentine’s Day with an apostrophe is actually the most correct. But we don’t really know if there is a saint the [...]
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Ever wonder why your VDay cards have hearts on them? In the Bible, and in much later literature, the heart is used as a metaphor to refer to the moral core of a human being. This is true from the earliest passages; Genesis 6:5 situates the thoughts of evil men in their hearts, and Exodus [...]
read more »Valentine’s Day, on February 14th, is the traditional day on which lovers in the West let each other know about their love. Its obscure origins as a Catholic Church feast day, said to be in honor of Saint Valentine are discussed below. The day could not have become associated with romantic love before the High [...]
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It is probably too late to get a custom Princess Leia costume, but Barnes & Noble has a special section this month devoted to VDay appropriate gifts and there is still time for them to make sure your Valentine gets what you ordered in time for Valentines Day.
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