Category Archives: Thanksgiving

No Rules, Just Wrong

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Nathan

Class Action Park – A documentary about Action Park, an actual place in New Jersey that sounds totally made up when people talk about it. It was a poorly run but profitable amusement park where numerous guests were seriously injured … Continue reading →

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Quit Jiving Me, Turkey

Posted on November 26, 2020 by Nathan

It’s Thanksgiving, and we were originally planning to visit Beth’s mom and uncle today, but then we both tested positive for COVID. So we’re staying at home, and I’m not even sure what we’re going to have for dinner. At … Continue reading →

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Do the Mashed Potato, Do the Candied Yam

Posted on November 19, 2020 by Nathan

Yesterday was my birthday. I’m now forty-three years old. Too bad that, between the cold, the pandemic, and Beth having a cold (I’m also showing some symptoms of one), we couldn’t really do anything. What we have done in the … Continue reading →

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Screw Your Eye

Posted on November 17, 2020 by Nathan

Darkman – Back in the nineties, there was a program they showed around Halloween for a few years called Horror Hall of Fame, hosted by Robert Englund and the Crypt-Keeper, that discussed recent horror movies. Sometimes they had to stretch … Continue reading →

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No Guests Like Gnomes for the Holidays

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Nathan

I’m sure I don’t need to tell anyone else who’s played the Sims games that they’re incredibly addictive and time-consuming. I’ll generally set goals for when I’ll take a break or at least switch households, but then I often find … Continue reading →

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Beans in Your Button

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Nathan

Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz, also called Dorothy in the Land of Oz and novelized as Dorothy and the Green Gobbler of Oz, is a 1980 special written by Romeo Muller, who was also responsible for a lot of … Continue reading →

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Dinner and Movies

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Nathan

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving – While I’ve seen the Christmas and Halloween Peanuts specials at least fairly recently, it had been a while since I watched the Thanksgiving one. I guess you could say this one isn’t QUITE as cynical, … Continue reading →

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The Darlings of Slumberland

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Nathan

With the new Little Nemo comic series by Eric Shanower, Gabriel Rodriguez, and Nelson Daniel now in its third issue, I thought checking out the history of this franchise might not be amiss. I believe I first heard of Little … Continue reading →

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What’s the Story, Wishbone?

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Nathan

Beth asked me last night if I knew how the tradition of breaking the wishbone started, and I had to admit I didn’t know. As with most superstitions, it’s difficult to get an exact answer, but there’s a lot of … Continue reading →

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We’d Always Have Walking Bird on Thanksgiving, with All the Trimmings

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Nathan

Ah, Thanksgiving. Perhaps the lamest of the holidays that we commonly celebrate here in the United States. As I mentioned last year, it’s basically a harvest festival, but the specifically American story of the First Thanksgiving involves dissenters from the … Continue reading →

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