This Thanksgiving, enjoy listening to a program about seventeenth-century squirrel ancestors.

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Thanks 1

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Danny Kaye and the Andrews Sisters * Over the River and Through the Woods

Fanny Brice * Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love

Thanks 2

PDQ Bach * Then Asked He from The Seasonings, S. 1/2 tsp

Mr. F Le Mur * Area Turkeys

Bran Flakes * Cool…

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Due to an unfortunate run-in with some proprietary software, this week's playlist is gone. To compensate for this injustice, I have included a fun drinking game. It's very easy to play: just take a drink of your favorite beverage when commanded! Have a fun and safe Thanksgiving!

 

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Thanksgiving Etiquette for Children…

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I wanted to take a moment before everyone gets involved in their personal, real life.Thanksgiving Day endeavors to say I'm just plain ol' thankful; for nothing in particular but everything and everyone everywhere... and because I woke up again this morning, to appreciate all of this.



We all have a lot to be thankful for and so much that we take for granted. Our biggest worries might be hoping there will be enough chairs to… Continue

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. There is truth in the old saw about ignorance being bliss. Yet, one cannot unring a bell. Once the silence has been shattered by the clanging, the echos resound forever...or until Alzheimer's. Prepare for a cacophony.

There are many things for which I'm thankful, and I have no problem saying so...even directly to the people to whom and for whom I am thankful. But this alleged holiday, like all the others, really pisses me…

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by William S. Burroughs



To John Dillinger, in hope he is still alive.

Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986.



Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts.



Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison.



Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger.



Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin leaving the carcasses… Continue

So I got invited to a neighbors' place for Thanksgiving - just the three of us.



Ok, not so much 'invited' as I sneakily arranged the whole thing. Quasi-homeless, no cooking facilities of my own, no transportation to go anywhere else, facing a Thanksgiving of cheap burrito fixings and Oreos while I watch DVDs in continual avoidance of housework. Oh, and recovering from a recent distressing phone call from a neurotic family member, right before this holiday where everyone's going on… Continue

Thanksgiving noms with NPR.



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Thanksgiving Cooking Tips

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Dizzie Gillespie * Hey Pete! Let's Eat Some Meat

Benny Goodman * Stealin' Apples

Bing Crosby FDR Thanksgiving

Eric "Two Scoops" Moore * Big Buffet

Louis Armstrong * Struttin' with some Barbecue

Liquor Turkey

Guy Clark * Homegrown Tomatoes

Berenstein *… Continue

Talking Turkey

On the strange relationship between giving thanks and taking lives



by Ben Popper



I try not to get too friendly with animals I plan on killing. This was my rookie year working at White Gate Farm, a small organic operation in East Lyme, Connecticut. Every six weeks we slaughtered a flock of around 100 chickens. Emotionally this was easy, since the birds had ignored me completely while they were… Continue

Sara Robinson’s entry today on Blog for Our Future is probably the best short summary I’ve ever read, of exactly why liberals should stop being nice and polite and backing down to avoid family arguments during Thanksgiving dinner. I’m pretty lucky; I rarely have to deal with this stuff at family holidays. When I have, I’ve usually managed to avoid a blowout death match,… Continue