Speaking of naked lunches…
Ah, Thanksgiving… the day when we celebrate a bunch of ill-equipped, uptight Christian fundies and their Indian friends who helped them survive their first year in a new and virgin land (well, new and virgin except for their Indian friends, who had been living there for the past 10,000 years or so). And when I say “we”, I of course mean “everyone except the descendants of the Pilgrims’ Indian friends, who probably spend Thanksgivings redoubling their efforts build a time machine so they can go back to Plymouth Colony and kick the Pilgrims back into the Atlantic with a couple hundred TOW missiles.”
Perhaps I’m not getting this whole Thanksgiving thing.
But really, I am thankful for the Pilgrims’ sacrifices because – call me old-fashioned – without them, I wouldn’t have a mid-week day off at the end of November. [1] With that thought in mind, I offer this scene from 1993’s Addams Family Values – poignant in its relevance to today’s solemn holiday and a fine example of why Wednesday was my favorite character in that movie.
Courtesy of the appropriately-handled DayForWoe.
[1] Of course, I know the real origins of today’s Thanksgiving holiday. But it’s a little harder to be snarky about hundreds of thousands of Civil War dead.
One Neat Thing a Day 