Category Archives: Holidays

Happy New Year! Welcome to the Future!

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Steven

It’s 2022 (in case you didn’t get the memo about it), and we’ve now reached the future—at least the future as seen through the dystopian lens of the 1973 sci-fi feature film Soylent Green. Based on the 1966 novel Make Room! Make … Continue reading →

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Happy Small Business Saturday 2021!

Posted on November 27, 2021 by Steven

Hey, shoppers! Sure, yesterday might have been Black Friday, the retail industry’s most notorious day of the year, and in two days you’ll have Cyber Monday, when the Internet shatters from the volume of online sales that will be flooding … Continue reading →

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DriveThru’s 2021 Black Friday Sale Is Underway!

Posted on November 26, 2021 by Steven

Beating the rush before the post-Thanksgiving shopping season goes into overdrive this weekend, e-book distributor DriveThru Fiction—along with its sister sites DriveThru Comics and DriveThru RPG—has launched its annual Black Friday/Cyber Monday Weekend Sale, during which you can purchase a ton of … Continue reading →

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Happy Love Your Red Hair Day 2021!

Posted on November 5, 2021 by Steven

According to the National Day Calendar, National Love Your Red Hair Day was created in 2015 by Adrienne and Stephanie Vendetti, cofounders of the beauty site How to be a Redhead, and it’s “a day to celebrate the beauty of those gorgeous … Continue reading →

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Beast Wishes for Halloween!

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Steven
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Bob Larkin and Michael Myers: Now That’s Halloween!

Posted on October 15, 2021 by Steven

To celebrate today’s release of Halloween Kills, the highly anticipated Jamie Lee Curtis–starring sequel to 2018’s Halloween, we’ve dipped into the Bob Larkin Archives to present this appropriately haunting image: an ad Bob painted for TV Guide in 1981, for the NBC broadcast … Continue reading →

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Happy Buy a Book Day 2021!

Posted on September 7, 2021 by Steven

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s National Read a Book Day, today is National Buy a Book Day, which, according to the calendar site Happy Days 365, “was formed in 2012 to educate people about the significance of books to our … Continue reading →

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Happy Read a Book Day 2021!

Posted on September 6, 2021 by Steven

Today is not just Labor Day in the United States—the unofficial end of summer—but also National Read a Book Day, which has been celebrated every September 6th since…well, nobody seems to know precisely when this “holiday” began, or who started it, … Continue reading →

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Happy Book Lovers Day 2021!

Posted on August 9, 2021 by Steven

Hey, fans of reading! If you’re like those of us at ’Warp Central, then you know that today is Book Lovers Day, a worldwide event celebrated every August 9th. If you’re looking for the right book on this special day, here … Continue reading →

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Happy Kiss a Ginger Day 2021!

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Steven

According to the calendar site Happy Days 365, today is International Kiss a Ginger Day, a holiday created in 2009 as a “karmic counter event” intended to offset negative comments made about fiery-haired people (e.g., that gingers have no souls, that … Continue reading →

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