Festivus Question

A perversion of Festivus rituals or an expansion upon them?

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2017/12/27/a-holiday-airing-of-gratitudes.html

Reading Update - 28 December 2017

Just finished Persepolis Rising from the Expanse series. Starting on Andy Weir's Artemis and Masha Gessen's Man Without a Face biography of Putin. After that, hopefully Linden McIntyre's The Only Cafe, since that was one of the gifts I got this Christmas.