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Matt Potter 3:41 p.m., Sept. 20
Thanksgiving
Thanks for thy present! None sweeter or better.
A poem for Thanksgiving Day
The Pumpkin Oh, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun, The vines of the gourd and the rich melon run, And the rock and the tree and the cottage enfold, With broad leaves ...
Where to get your pie in San Diego
“When it comes to pumpkin, we go to Costco”
“I say make the whole dinner a pie,” said my friend May when I asked for Thanskgiving pie suggestions. “Patton Oswalt may have been right about KFC’s Famous Bowls being failure piles, but that’s because ...
James Thurber, Hunter Thompson, H.L. Mencken give thanks for new American president
Happy Trumpsgiving!
SCENE: The Mencken dining room, Thanksgiving. In attendance are host Walter Mencken, English novelist Evelyn Waugh, writer and critic H.L. Mencken, Pogo Possum, Roman emperor Claudius, writer and humorist James Thurber, writer and agitator Hunter ...
A Thanksgiving Poem
"With incense sweet our thanks ascend..."
The sun hath shed its kindly light, Our harvesting is gladly o’er Our fields have felt no killing blight, Our bins are filled with goodly store. From pestilence, fire, flood, and sword We have been ...
A caveman Thanksgiving
Easy paleo options for Turkey Day
“We soak cashews, swell them, and cream them down so that they act like a kind of cream cheese.”
The ideal hipster Thanksgiving
Prepare your single-origin beans, elaborate cocktails, and yam rants
Here comes the “what yams actually are” lecture.
Thanksgiving as we know it
True greed has no end. Greed grows until something makes it stop. There will be three NFL games televised on Thanksgiving. Games run from 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. According to a 2010 Wall Street ...
Two Thanksgiving POVs
Bad timing for turkeys and West Coast NFL fans
Found on Mrs. Lambert’s (Nauvoo-Colusa Middle School) Social Studies web page: “The first Thanksgiving was not a feast, but rather a time when Native Americans helped Pilgrims by bringing them food and helping them build ...
Thanksgiving Volunteering Opportunities in San Diego
Lose yourself in the service of others.
My son recited a Gandhi quotation at dinner. “‘I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let ...
Where to go for Thanksgiving turkey
"Don’t cook for Thanksgiving this year,” said Patrick’s mother. “You know what?” I answered. “I’m not going to fight you on that. It’s been a long year.” “So, where should we go? Our treat.” I ...
Official Proclamation of the First Thanksgiving
To all ye Pilgrims: Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, squashes, and garden vegetable, and has made the forest to abound with game ...
Thanksgiving Edition
Thanksgiving is thought of as family time. But, we all know Thanksgiving is more than family, bigger than family. Thanksgiving means the NFL is coming at you with three rock-’em sock-’em football games running from ...
Wine for Thanksgiving
Hallelujah! I’m not cooking for Thanksgiving this year — the Kellys have gotten themselves invited to a monster gathering up north. When I asked what I could bring, they just said, “Wine, and lots of ...
Eat What the Politicians Feed You
This Thanksgiving, some Americans will be eating turducken, a turkey stuffed with duck that is in turn stuffed with chicken. It started commercially in Louisiana’s Cajun country about 25 years ago, spread to much of ...
This Is How It’s Supposed to Be
The kids chased each other around the coffee table in the living room while I helped carry food from the kitchen to the dining room. This is how it’s supposed to be, I thought. Sure, ...
