Dr. Venkman wrote:

Sebastian J. wrote:I can't believe you yanks "celebrate" the massacre of native americans. Sickos

Yeah, it's right before Deny the Holocaust and Give Safe Haven To Nazi War Criminals Day in Argentina.

What about that other holiday, How did a land also occupied by Native Americans somehow become the most Caucasian country I've ever been in? Oh well, I'm sure they were paid fairly for their land and voluntarily decided to leave Day.... is that the same month? I keep losing track.

oxlongm wrote:

Dr. Venkman wrote:

Sebastian J. wrote:I can't believe you yanks "celebrate" the massacre of native americans. Sickos

Yeah, it's right before Deny the Holocaust and Give Safe Haven To Nazi War Criminals Day in Argentina.

What about that other holiday, How did a land also occupied by Native Americans somehow become the most Caucasian country I've ever been in? Oh well, I'm sure they were paid fairly for their land and voluntarily decided to leave Day.... is that the same month? I keep losing track.

Yes. Same month.

Sebastian J. wrote:I can't believe you yanks "celebrate" the massacre of native americans. Sickos

It's no Día de la Raza, but we're working on it.

i hate the holidays. i'll be stressed for the next month and a half. all this family visiting stresses me out. to be sure, i dig all the pies, but can't we come up with another reason to have pie?

crap.

alex maiolo wrote:Greatest holiday of the year.

don't you mean halloween?

Dr. Venkman wrote:

Sebastian J. wrote:I can't believe you yanks "celebrate" the massacre of native americans. Sickos

Yeah, it's right before Deny the Holocaust and Give Safe Haven To Nazi War Criminals Day in Argentina.

Plus the food's better.
DTHAGSHTNWC Day food is bullshit.
I mean who came up with the idea of a "DTHAGSHTNWC Vienna Sausage Caserole" anyway?

-A

enframed wrote:

alex maiolo wrote:Greatest holiday of the year.

don't you mean halloween?

No, I mean THANKSGIVING!

Here's your solution: dress up for Thanksgiving and give pies for Halloween.

You're welcome - no charge for that, chief.

-A

enframed wrote:i hate the holidays. i'll be stressed for the next month and a half. all this family visiting stresses me out. to be sure, i dig all the pies, but can't we come up with another reason to have pie?

I agree wholly with this post, except that I vote not crap.

I will not be with my family this year. I will be with my girlfriend, who has only one member of her family left that she'll talk to anymore, and for that reason spent last Thanksgiving alone in her office eating a can of cranberry sauce. This image is one of the most heartbreaking things I can conjure up at this time of year.

We are not doing anything exceptional for the holiday, but we are having a few friends (mostly hers, as I still don't know anyfuckingone around this area) over for dinner and comradery. We even just bought a nice new dining room table for the occasion.

It will not be the Thanksgivings of my past, where family settled around the table and all were warm and smiles. And it will be followed by the 30+ day requisite oh-fuck-it's-Christmas-time stressing. Right after Thanksgiving I'm driving back east to help my dear friend pack his belongings up and move to Austin to be with his dad, who has been given a short-sentence type of medical diagnosis. But it will be Thanksgiving, damn it all. There will be community. And there will be food. Thanks be.

Not crap, Thanksgiving. Surely you are more to us than your humble and questionable beginnings imply.

when i was young, i lived downstate. my dad worked for the state of illinois in various roles, one of which was as part of the historic preservation agency. about 20 miles out of my hometown is a weird log cabin-y place called new salem - i'd imagine that many of the illinois people on this board took field trips there. for the rest of you, this is a reproduction of a town on the site of an actual town that abraham lincoln lived in. lots of oxen, wooden buildings, etc.

in november, there's not a damn soul out there. so we'd go out there for thanksgiving. it was great - eating turkey and pie in a log cabin, stone hearths with fires in them, walking around an abandoned fake village on a gray gloomy day. a totally wonderful way to spend the holiday.

thanksgiving these days = me staying at home and working on audiovisual projects while tmbgitw hangs out with her family. doesn't match up to hanging out at new salem, that's for sure...

just another reason to have to hang out with my family instead of drinking or working or playing music.