Re-Emergence Day

So ... one important lesson I learned the last time I threw a re-emergence day bacchanal is that you *really* should not dramatically light a set of curtains on fire, no matter how primal it feels, ESPECIALLY if they are made of synthetic material.

It totally breaks my indie cred to say it, but I tear up every time I hear the Prime Minister of Canada's speech right before the climactic mutant moose battle in Re-Emergence Day. It's totally against my politics but the practical effects when they napalm the Great Bear Rainforest makes me want to ...

My absolute favorite part of re-emergence day as a child was going to visit the McAlister family who had a giant, heavily wooded backyard. After the first tea of the day, all the kids would go find a place to hide in the woods where they could make a giant pile of leaves on top of themselves and pla...

My dad, being kind of an ass, again, running theme here, would always chant "oh canada, don't let the house burn down" to the point where I have zero idea what the actual appropriate incantation was.

Did anyone else's dad think it was really funny to celebrate every single time someone came out of the bathroom with fucking noisemakers that they were RE EMERGING INTO THE PARTY!!!!!!

My favorite was the one that was kind of like a kinder egg where there were a whole bunch of individual pieces that were slowly revealed as the candle melted down so you'd be guessing until you got to the very bottom how they might go together. My favorite was the little catapult.

I thought I was such a smart fake yeshiva boy as a kid, arguing with people about how it shouldn't be called "re-emergence day" because we didn't have an "emergence day" to be repeating. Which in college somehow turned into a party I threw the weekend *before* re-emergence day th...

Wait, what!? I can't write in options! This poll is rigged. I call a vote of no confidence on the birthday boy. I am hereby nominating myself as the birthday boy.

I'm concerned there's a lot of first-mover inertia here.