Natonal Nothing Day

January 16th is National Nothing Day-- a special day of the year for just doing nothing. Why not? The perfect day for the procrastinators and lazy.

It was created in 1973 by newspaperman Harold Pullman Coffin, who was tired of special interest groups laying claim to the calendar.  He thought we needed a day to really focus on ourselves without distractions.  Imagine that? Back in 1973, Matt Helm and James Bond were the only ones with car phones.

Decades later, we seem incapable of doing nothing, or even just doing one thing at a time. Here's a song from simple and sweet 1975 in honor of National Nothing Day.