Gorilla!

Finally I get advance notice of a goofy holiday that I can blow off properly, rather than find out about it at 11PM on the day or two days after the fact. In honor of Mad Magazine's Don Martin, January 31st has been designated "National Gorilla Suit Day." While I have no gorilla suit of my own, nor do I have any intention of getting one in the next week or so, I am looking forward to being on the lookout for random celebrating Gorilla-clad Martinheads.

Perhaps one will be young Theo Epstein, famed off-again on-again Red Sox brain trust who famously left Fenway Park on the last day of his most recently completed stint disguised as a gorilla.

UPDATE: I am reminded that Young Theo has sold his gorilla suit on e-bay for charity (news report here). But he can certainly afford another one.

ADDENDUM: I must draw your attention to the sound effects in the second panel to the left. The zippers on the suits make "zoot" noises. Get it? Zoot suit! That Don Martin was a genius.