Creepy Ephemera: The Christmas Gavle Goat
Creepy Ephemera: The Christmas Gavle Goat
Donna Ramone
The weirdest Christmas tradition you’ve never heard of! There is a town in Sweden called Gavle, and every year for the past 6 decades they have built a giant wooden goat in the middle of town. And every year someone burns it down.
Why do they build it? Why do they burn it? You’ll have to read this story to find out, but it’s pretty wild. The town itself doesn’t want it to burn! Imagine if some prankster ran up to the big tree in Rockefeller Center and burned it down! People would freak out! But it has become this weird tradition in Gavle where some people are TRYING to burn down the goat, and others are desperately trying to SAVE the goat. You can even place bets online each year as to whether or not it will burn.
This zine is funny, weird, and even kind of sad. But bizarre enough that you have to read it. From our very own Donna Ramone, the punk rock grinch of the zine world!
Half-size, full color, 16 pages long. Written by Donna Ramone, distributed by Billy McCall.
