"Sixteen years ago, O’Keefe and his family gave the world Festivus—by accident. Before Seinfeld‘s ninth season, it was the O’Keefe family’s annual tradition, invented by his dad—a big fan of Pabst Blue Ribbon, coincidentally. “It was fucking weird, man,” O’Keefe recalls. “It did not have a set date…We never knew when it was going to happen until we got off the school bus and there were weird decorations around our house and weird French ’60s music playing.” The pole itself, however, was an invention of the Seinfeld writers room, and the episode’s other two writers Alec Berg and Jeff Schaffer. One day in 1997, one of O’Keefe’s brothers let it slip to a member of the Seinfeld staff that this family holiday existed, and the crew thought thought was funny enough to write into the series. “I didn’t pitch it. I fought against it,” O’Keefe says. “I thought it would be embarrassing and drag the show down"
Seeing the kid, great food, thoughtful presents, the beaming full sunlit South side of the pavilion and the huge roaring fire in the wash tub were all great pleasures and fun.
The 20mph howling wind out of the south through the open sided pavilion and 30°temps kinda sucked.
Best of all, there will never be another trump Christmas.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”