By Steve Candidus
In addition to the normal and expected traditions, what other things do you do on Thanksgiving?
I always revisit this wonderful tape Of Johnny Carson and Doc Severensin talking about Thanksgiving.
And no Thanksgiving would be complete for me without listening to Arlo Guthrie’s masterpiece, “Alice’s Restaurant”
Steve Candidus is a writer and a history buff that works as a product and application specialist of large AC electric motors in Spring, Texas.
Every year we have a billards tournament at the inlaws. I usually end up standing on top of the table and yell…Can anybody beat me at this game? Yes, at that point I have had a few beers.
–Wip
please tell us that you’re not naked and talking to your sisinlaw while on top of the pool table–
on 2nd thought,it would make a better story if you were–
Screw you downvoters. Good times, good times.
In the early morning, I’ll whip up the omelets as my bride bakes the cinnamon rolls. Then we’ll feed the offspring while exuding gratitude for another year of economic sufficiency and good health. Later, we’ll meet the extended family for lunch. After that, at some point, ping-pong balls might fly through the air in Forest Gump fashion.
Being Canadian, we celebrated Thanksgiving in October with WKRP’s Turkeys Away…it never gets old…”As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!” 🙂
Ahhh. WKRP in Cincinnati.
While everybody seemed to have a ‘thing’ for Loni Anderson (Jennifer), I always liked Jan Smithers (Bailey).
That’s me. Always the contrarian…
Steve C.
Spring, Texas
Funny. We watched that show when I was a kid, and my old man preferred Bailey as well.
It wasn’t until I was much older that I understood why.
I’ll second Alice’s Restaurant massacree in 4 part harmony… with feeling.
Father rapers? Sitting right here on the bench with me?
Found a new version this morning…
Alice’s Restaurant: The Massacree Revisited is a 1996 album by American folk singer Arlo Guthrie. The album is a new recording of all material from the entire original Alice’s Restaurant album, as performed live 29 years later at The Church in Housatonic, Massachusetts. The album cover of this release also pays homage to its predecessor as it pictures Arlo in the same pose as the original album—sitting at the dinner table holding his fork and knife, waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to begin. This time he is without his hat (displaying a full head of gray hair) and 29 years older.
Each song is essentially faithful to the original—with one notable exception. At the end of re-recording of “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”, Arlo launches into a postscript story wherein he relates going to Jimmy Carter’s inauguration in 1976, and meeting Carter’s son, Chip, who tells Arlo of the discovery of an opened copy of Alice’s Restaurant left behind by the Nixons when they left the White House, leading to speculation around the fact that the title song and the gap in the Watergate tapes are both 18½ minutes in length.
The Massacree Revisited continued a tradition of Guthrie’s to perform “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” only once every 10 years, with this version coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the song.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles – watch it every year. Priceless!
It’s just another day…so sad, so sad..sometimes she feels so sad…
Once more for jalapeno boy who could never be a detective….
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Great expectations..
Thanksgiving day is a day for reflection. It always comes down to the simple things in life like an appreciation for our relatives since departed, good relationships, good friends and those zany remembrances that only our family could understand. Too bad we don’t have a few more days each year to appreciate all the things we have to be thankful for while living in this time in history. We have a quality of life that no predecessor could comprehend. Could you imagine a king, emperor, maharaja, etc of 500 years ago seeing what even we the common folk take for granted today? Medical care, a refrigerator filled with fresh foods from all over the world, air conditioned transportation, indoor plumbing, communications; the list is almost endless. Wouldn’t that king happily exchange places with a welfare recipient of today and be filled with absolute joy and thoughts of fortune to good to be true?
A luxurious meal with family and friends, enjoying the bounty of this crazy blue marble. Wow, count me in!
“Too bad we don’t have a few more days each year to appreciate all the things we have to be thankful for while living in this time in history.”
You don’t need an”official” holiday to be thankful the other 365 days of the year.