Whatever your holiday plans are, the four-legged turkey does not approve. And he is an angry god. In a way, this is appealingly minimalist. Just the turkey elements are preserved–horrible red wattle, seasonally colorful plumage (and I LOVE the purple, this must be one of those beautiful tropical turkeys I’ve heard so much about), wings. […]
It’s good to get these silly myths out of your system early. That iconic image of an aging Native American warrior on a horse looking eastward, a single tear rolling down his cheek? Wrong. Based on 400+ year of a misapprehension. Centuries of cultural war between Native Americans and European colonists were started entirely because […]
That reminds me, it’s time to clean out the fridge. I’m not sure what’s for dinner tonight. Nothing served in a crockpot should be that bursting with life, unless it’s been sitting out for a few days. Even then, what the hell kind of cooking experiment coughs up mountain laurel? The mushrooms I can handle, […]
The main reason the puritans journeyed to the New World wasn’t to celebrate their religious freedoms in an open country, without fear. No, they were forced to leave because they were damned creepy. Creepy, and frankly more than a little bit pungent. Looking beyond the fact that every single one of them wore the same […]
Pull up a plate of leftovers, and see what tryptophan-induced hallucinations escaped from Savers this week! Many many MANY years ago, when a boatload of religious separatists travelled over the ocean for 66 arduous days, braving starvation, an ugly voyage, icy temperature, and New York traffic, they probably weren’t expecting to end up on a […]
This was shelved with the Halloween stuff. Maaaybe it WAS Halloween stuff. But…I’m not going to even try to guess what strange haunted house it might be from–like a “last retail quarter House of TERROR. Which seems a little esoteric for a haunted house, but Black Friday’s pretty scary. So, disembodied limb. Check, very traditional […]