mmm... Chocolate Dreidels...

Hanukkah (or Chanukkah, or Hanukka, Chanukah...) begins tonight at sundown, and while I'm not Jewish, through a marriage bonus (my dad's) I get to co-opt all the fun parts during the holidays. Whee!

So here's eight (get it?) solid reasons why the Hanukkah thing kinda rules:

1. The blue/silver color scheme is sooo much classier than that garish red/green Christmas thing.
2. It's a celebration of oil — how can you argue with a holiday based around fried foods? Mmm... latkes.
3. Competitive top-spinning for M&Ms beats watching the cat munch tinsel, hands down.
4. It's traditional to give money, which efficiently removes the exchange-counter middleman from your gift-giving cycle.
5. I'm amped to get my annual hanukkah toothbrush.
6. It's fun to say Macabee over and over. Try it: Macabee. Macabee. Macabee. See? Fun.
7. There's not much of a songbook, so you can save up your vocal stylings for karaoke after the menorah lights dwindle out.
8. Woo-hoo! Eight days of fire, fire, fire!