STW Calendar Revisited, Part V

February 1-12

A bunch of February to flip through. I also haven’t looked at any of these holiday references in over ten years, so let’s see how many I can figure out without checking the answers…

If done with the right non-creepy attitude, I still think would be fun? And I don’t think would be horribly upsetting to the new friend you end up making out of the whole process, either? I’ve also never tried to pick anyone up at a bar before so what do I know, though.

This holiday is apparently a reference to the 13th amendment, which I’m absolutely sure you could figure out from the context.

I’m pretty sure I created this one the night that the Red Sox lost on the last day of the 2011 season, in the middle of the night in progress. That ended poorly.

I figured the holiday out pretty easily as a reference to Ulysses - which I’ve never read, mind you, so take that for what I apparently believe the book is about. Griff as a name is a weird choice compared to Griffin? Decent song from the soundtrack for this page.

I was a firm believer in the multiuniversal hypothesis (MUH) and all its implications before it was a part of every single piece of media that currently exists. If you’ve ever read Grant Morrison’s run on JLA from the late 90s, he crafted one storyline around the idea that the 5th dimension is imagination, and that idea combined with what I’ve completely latched onto from the MUH has a great deal to do with what I see about the potential in the world and society as much as anything else. Imagination and physics, why not!

I’ve loved this page’s Imagineers song since I was introduced to them through Craig Ferguson’s show. They’re no longer together, alas. As to the holiday, did you know the first robot landing on the moon happened on February 3rd of some year? I knew once, apparently, and now I know again.

I don’t know what this means anymore but it’s still kind of funny? Anyway, February 4th is my birthday, which is why I created the holiday for this day. And I still like the Eeels’ song for this day, although Fresh Blood is a better overall song by them.

This comic’s good too! Man, it’s nice to not have to cringe when I read all of these. I wonder how much I remembered when creating this comic of the day my high school locked down because there was a gas leak in the chemistry lab. I think that speaks to some logic behind that administration - instead of evacuating when there might be a gas leak, let’s instead lock down and make sure every student is contained within their homerooms!

The holiday refers to the nuclear bomb that is lost off the coast of Georgia - that sounds fun, I’m glad I forgot about that. I’m sure it’s fine! “Jackal” being the word of the day is very funny to me now, as the organizing committee for a large chemical engineering conference in 2027 that I’m a part of is a team that I stumbled into naming exactly that. “Jocasta” is clearly a sign of me having read Oedipus Rex once in high school.

This is definitely based on a comment I made in college at one point, but I’m not sure what the origin of it even would be because I hated to wear socks and so never wore them. And I still hate socks but at least I pretend to be civilized now.

The holiday is about the Polish round table? Okay, I guess. I wonder if today’s clouds know what the frequency is.

Don’t actually go and do this. For many reasons.

Huh, this holiday is a reference to Blazing Saddles? Sure, why not.

The time scale here is apparently about 15ish years because I’m certainly a little bothered now looking at a picture of my old self like this. The pose with the finger in my mouth was a nod to a college friend, Jeff Chittim, who posed like that several times one night. Sometimes that’s what your brain insists upon remembering.

This holiday is about the Boy Scouts, right? (checks) Yup, that was easy. Not sure why I chose the Poe song for this day, but it’s still pretty solid.

Did I ever ask Mrs. Sikorski about this back in freshman year theology in high school? I should have. I seriously debated going down the path of becoming a priest - as much as anyone can debate such an idea at an age of 14 - and then I took that class and viewed it pretty much as a sign from God that no, go a different path instead. How bad do you have to be at teaching theology that you actively turn people away from the priesthood?

The holiday here is about the first asparagus in San Francisco? Where did I even find a reference to that? I haven’t listened to the M Ward album today’s song comes from in a while, I should probably see if I still enjoy it or not.

… where did the idea for this comic even come from? Why did I decide it was one of the best 365 from the first five years of STW that I thought it was worth including in this calendar? Were the other options that much worse? Ugh.

The holiday is about Poland being married to the sea? Boy, I’m learning a lot through this review, I guess.

You know, I see how a bunch of these old comics seem set up for lawsuits. DISCLAIMER: PLEASE DON’T ACTUALLY DRINK THE BLUE LIQUID.

The holiday is about the first sci-fi TV? Sure, why not. Picking “Rhapsody in Blue” for the soundtrack song is actually very funny to me and I’m quite proud of my past self’s cleverness.

A raptor pose! I wonder if I could even find a trace of Mike Ferri, the guy who taught me about raptor poses. (checks internet) Well, I spent 20 seconds searching, guess not. Raptor poses are still a thing I love to do, even if I don’t chase the cats around the house doing it anymore. There were a bunch of livestreams when I would take raptor requests and it was idiocy but it was fun idiocy.

Quintus? Grasping at Q names, I guess. The holiday is about Origin of Species? If my old spreadsheet says so.

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I’ve been keeping up to date but had lost the file that all the holiday answers and finally found it on a computer from several laptops ago, that’s why this update is a little behind. More to come from February later this week.