Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Thanksgiving is Here...Well for me at least


Hey blogowers (get it, like followers?)

Today is Tuesday and I am embarking on an almost week long family holiday.

To most, this sounds like a nightmare, but to me it means good food, free booze, fires in the fireplace, and a lot of sitting around in a warm house with a blanket.

But for those of you who don't like your family that much, or who have to deal with lots and lots of relatives and insanity, here's my Survival Guide to Holidays with the Family:

* Ear Plugs--especially good if you have nieces and nephews of the "shrieking" age

* A spare car--always try to take an extra care if you are going to a relative's house so you can leave when you want

* Netflix--when all else fails in the conversation department, a blockbuster film or a comedy are good crowd pleasers

* A good book--so you can be pretending to be engrossed in it when Uncle Ned tells you the same story for the upteenth time

* Running/walking shoes--For anyone leaving New York and going to Suburbia or Small Town USA, enjoy the trees and fresh air while you can!

* Booze. Stock up before Thursday. Nuff said.

Most importantly, just remember that while holidays are stressful, they are at least a break from work, break ups, house cleaning, cat poop and responsibility.

Have a happy and warm Thanksgiving and I'll be sending through **Snapshot Wednesdays** and **Fine Art Fridays** as planned this week.

Mwah!

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Great Thanksgiving Movies

If you aren't a football or Macy's Day Parade fan, check some of these out while you're sitting on your couch digesting or to get yourself psyched for Turkey Day over the next two weeks...

Home for the Holidays
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113321/
One of the first movies I remember that basically got one set (a dining room) and paired it with an ensemble cast full of dysfunctional characters. It has Robert Downey Jr in it so it can't be that bad, right?

Pieces of April
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311648/
Two reasons to see this movie: Katie Holmes before Tom and the chick that played her sister in this movie did Karaoke with me a couple of years back and stole "Shoop" from me. Throw things at the screen when she's on.

An American Tail
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090633/plotsummary
Whle not specifically about Thanksgiving, what makes you want to be an American more than Barack Obama? Fievel, that's who.

ThanXgiving
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0878717/
Wow, this looks awesome. Never seen it but will if anyone's down!
Tagline: No meat too tough...
Plot: A group of film students go into the woods to make a movie. They believed to have found the perfect location, a vacant campsite which soon proves otherwise...
Sounds like our camping trip! LOL.

The House of Yes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119324/
I forgot about this one. It's so fucked up and great. I miss when Parker Posey was more than a crazy cameo.

Planes, Trains & Automobiles
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093748/quotes
RIP John Candy.

Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068359/
You can't go wrong with aCharlie Brown holiday movie. Reading the synopsis on imdb begs the age old question, if Charlie B is putting the di nner together himself WHERE THE HECK ARE HIS PARENTS?

Thanksgiving Family Reunion
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374275/
A Bullshit National Lampoon's without Chevy Chase. But Judge Reinhold is in it!

Celebrity Bric-a-Brac:The Story of Thanksgiving
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7755vuRLJ-Q
Something I found on YouTube. Kinda funny.

Son-in-Law
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108186/
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Poor Pauly Shore.


The Sure Thing
http://www.amazon.com/Sure-Thing-John-Cusack/dp/B00009OWJY/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1226444523&sr=8-1
Can't remember if the holiday they are traveling during is Thanksgiving or Christmas, but this is a must for any Cusack-a-phile!

The Wizard of Oz
http://www.tnt.tv/title/?oid=852
A classic. Nuff said.

James Bond
http://www.bondmovies.com/news/79.shtml
Spike TV's yearly Thanksgiving Marathon of Bond movies. A great way to "bond" with your dad. (Ha!)

And some of TV's greatest Thanksgiving moments:

Brad Pitt on Friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2zFlARhY-s
Back when he was Brennifer and not Brangelina.

And from Lauren—a little Saved by the Bell: The College Years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhRLhl0HRjA

I know there are others (Alice's Restaurant & Hannah and Her Sisters) but I haven't seen those and don't want to come off as pretentious.

Lastly, Thanksgiving is for some crazy reason when corporate America starts advertising for Christmas, so don't forget to tune into A Christmas Story...over and over and over again.

Next week: unusual Thanksgiving recipes!

XOXO