We here at Glibs HQ hope you are all having a happy Thanksgiving. In lieu of afternoon links you get an open post.
GlibFlick will run tonight, at the usual GlibTime, and GlibChannel. R.J. is showing Kentucky Fried Movie tonight, and even as we speak he’s hard at work in the projector room because whoever used the print before use managed to rewind it backwards.
The comments are all yours. Have at it.
All I’m saying is, it’s time for the best Christmas album ever.
I don’t do the gratitude stuff. It doesn’t feel performative, per se. It feels like I’m trying to convince myself of something I don’t and won’t ever believe. So, what I did some time ago is a deep dive on the moments of joy I’ve had in my life:
1. the day I graduated from college
2. my wedding day
3. the night after XX’s birth
4. XY’s high school graduation
5. the day XY and I were goofing off
6. the first time I ate at La Bodega (shout out to @OMWC x2)
7. the day I learned how to ride a rollercoaster
I was expecting the Chipmunks
Too many days of joy, too many days of sadness.
Seems like the days of joy are short lived and the days of sorrow linger…
Aw, Fourscore, you know me better than that. 😉
I feel similarly, but having faked it to get things started, once the exercise is underway I most often end up uncovering something genuine.
Happy Thanksgiving in any case. Good musical selection. There’s a copy of it on vinyl at my local Big Box Store That Shan’t Be Named. I’ll be seeing it for the last time on Friday.
It was recently pointed out to me that:
If you feel like you never got anything because you didn’t hit the target and that anything below that is totally without value, joy is a myth and you can’t be grateful.
I was going to joke “are you me?” but then I realized nobody actually cared what I did or did not do so long as I wasn’t completely screwing up or causing trouble.
Charlie Cooke, of all people, is a coaster enthusiast.
The closest to me is old, wooden, and painful.
I used to love roller coasters, but not since I started having vertigo issues.
About 10 years ago, the last time I went to Busch Gardens, I rode 3 and was dizzy.
I was trying to tough it out because the boys were having a great time, but my wife looked at me and said, “You look gray”.
I replied that I felt gray and quit riding.
I love me my roller coasters. I’m blessed by being so close to Cedar Point.
I think I told you this, but growing up we used to go to Cedar Point every summer.
I was only able to go once as an adult, I wish I would have planned and taken my kids once they grew into roller coasters.
ron73440:
Cedar Point was the big trip for 8th grade and senior class, most of us went there most summers as well. Geauga Lake was the routine place to go to as a teenager (and where companies would hold their picnics, and kids and friends of kids could usually get in). Geauga Lake had the water park as well, with coasters that weren’t as good as Cedar Point, but it was cheaper (and about 30 minutes closer).
2020, the girlfriend and I grabbed season tickets for Cedar Point, as they were good for all of 2020 and 2021, I think we made it up there 4 times.
This made me think of you Moj https://milspecmonkey.com/store/patches/215-1052-pirate-girl.html#/113-color-highcontrast
I have always agreed with you about that album.
Happy thanksgiving!
What am I thankful for?
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I’m not dead.
I’m thankful I have you, UCS, for a friend….
…and all the other Glibs, even Jimbo
You bucking for sainthood there?
I resemble these thanks below.
*fistbump*
Continuing a Thanksgiving day tradition as persistent and annoying as the Macy’s parade and sportsball, Pat will herewith take a few moments to reflect on the things for which he is grateful this year, in a schmaltzy but not new age-y manner. Those so inclined are welcome to do likewise.
Obligatorily, of course, I’m thankful for this community. Particularly as the web continually descends ever further into a centralized, sanitized day care center, this place is a wonderful respite.
In a year marked by some very prominent examples of political violence, I’m thankful that an escalation into something worse has thus far failed to materialize. If there should ever come a time when open political violence is necessary, I hope the victory is swiftly awarded to the just, but I also hope that situation can be avoided through reason and diplomacy.
On the back of a couple of “rebuilding years,” I’m thankful I’ve been able to secure all of the material comforts necessary for a pleasant life, with enough left over for charitable giving and some self-indulgence. Having received a couple of promotions at my primary wage job, Sunday will be my last day at my second menial wage job. I’m not going to miss it much, but I’m eternally grateful to have had it. It not only saved my ass at a financially precarious point in my life, but kept me busy and distracted at a time when I desperately needed to be busy and distracted. That time having passed, I’m now thankful for the opportunities that freed up time is going to provide me in the coming year to work on other projects and pursue some neglected interests.
Hindsight being what it is, I’m also grateful for the adversity leading to the aforementioned “rebuilding years,” inasmuch as it’s given me more confidence in my resilience. When the next tragedy or disaster inevitably arrives, I know I’ll be able to manage it.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving Pat. I am far South of you, in Fredericksburg today. It’s getting cold. Maybe next year we can have Texas Glibs Thanksgiving.
Thanks! After my property hunt, my Texas geography is pretty good, but I had to look up where Fredericksburg is. If we have a Texas Glibsgiving I’m deep frying a turkey for the meme.
Are you planning to visit the battlefield?
wait – wrong Fredricksburg.
Stupid me.
No battlefield. Some Eisenhower WWII museum is here, where my brother works. He just got a half track running. I did not get a chance to see it. It is still a bit of a basket case and needed some hydraulic part for the back brakes. I told him authenticity has limits, give that monstrosity a dual master cylinder and some modern brake parts.
RJ-
That museum is well worth a visit. Wife and I spent about 4 hours there, we could have used another 4.
Not Ike — his museum is in Abilene (Kansas, not Texas), but a local in a different branch of service and a different theater of operations, to be Pacific.
The entrance to the museum used to be his grandfather’s hotel. The museum itself isn’t like the big WWII showcase in New Orleans, but it really punches above its weight class. I watched last April’s total solar eclipse from the Peace Garden in back.
Obligatorily, of course, I’m thankful for this community. Particularly as the web continually descends ever further into a centralized, sanitized day care center, this place is a wonderful respite.
Uptwinkles
Feasting soon to commence.
I did my part, the turkey is done. Waiting on wife and kids to get to the table now.
Yo, Golden Corral, man.
Then I do “Box Thanksgiving” on Friday. The bad thing about Golden Corral (or going anywhere else to eat) is you don’t get leftovers. So on the Friday after TDay, I make a TDay dinner, but I do it in the laziest possible way:
box stuffing
box spuds
powdered or jarred gravy
canned cranberry sauce (eh, I’d have that anyway)
green beans and bacon (also would’ve done that anyway)
store-bought rolls
pre-made pie crust (don’t have kids at home to make pumpkin pie breakfast for anymore)
And then I get a reasonably sized turkey breast I can just stick in the oven and do nothing special to.
I have done mine, and it was delightful. Not too much either.
Kentucky Fried Movie is never a bad choice. Catholic High School Girls in Trouble was always a favorite skit of young Otto.
“Show ’em yer nuts!”
You’re gonna need a bigger gravy boat.
Boo.
Don’t boo OMWC’s favorite movie.
French onion soup on simmer, yellow, red and leeks used. Sherry to glaze, but mighta left it on a bit too long, have more burnt bits than I’d like. Foam skimmed off, I gotta thicken it with a li’l flour slurry cuz I forgot to do it earlier in an easier manner. *grmble*
Celery and carrots are going in later, cuz I wanna and there’ll be plenty more after Sat’s family meal. I want soup w some *substance* to it.
Bread and gruyere, later. I am not tremendously excited for tomorrow’s early alarm beepin’ after three days off. I anticipate a slow, slow morning from shoppers, which I’d much appreciate.
I’m sorry to hear you’re working Black Friday.
Stay safe.
I am frequently wrong in my predictions, but I feel pretty good about this one. Many have the day off or took it; theoretically had a big meal; should have plenty of leftovers; are being encouraged to argue with family they rarely see; it’s cold ‘n windy as fuck here; and many washed those November realities with lots ‘o hooch.
My psionic powers encourage them to sink into the bottle. It’s good for them. (Everyone needs rest, don’tcha know.)
I’m prepared to to be wrong. Hrm. Not ‘Strongly Confident,’ but ‘Reasonably’ so. Hrm.
😋 🫕
I’ll be over shortly.
My YouTube Christmas Music playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRT7Lz5YKoInQsNmzRgRxh54r0kVYlnnq&si=Tkym59a6VfqYyemh
Great list – thank you for sharing.
For the meal today, I am making Beef Stroganoff and Braised Red Cabbage. We will also have canned green beans and a bunch of cheddar bay biscuits from Red Lobster.
My son made pumpkin pie using the instructions on the can of pumpkin.
More extended family for Thanksgiving thank we’ve seen for a while. Went to a country club for dinner. Mr. Bob Cousy was coming in as we were leaving.
Since it’s just me and my son, I’m not doing a turkey, instead, I’m trying an Alton Brown recipe that I saw years ago on Good Eats that I thought looked good.
I also cooked my favorite frozen Amish blackberry pie this morning for tonight.
As Wayne Larrivee would say, “There is your DAGGER!”
In a couple hours we will head to a Thanksgiving for Orphans, to which we bring giant turkey pot pies. Then off to the wife’s friends where I will be dog sitting for god knows how long. Because that is what friends are for. And so.
In the spirit of Pat’s list, I am thankful for 20 years of marriage, a son who takes that plung in the new year, and you guys.
Picking out a few for your sweat shop? Enjoy!
@zwak
Watching the “The Sound of Post-Punk & Coldwave on Vinyl”… lol Some of those folks are so tragically hip.
Yeah, but the music is bitchin’
Due to piss poor planning on my part, I am having Sichuan Beef for thanksgiving.
Yes, I had turkey… but I ate it.
They said it was supposed to be spicy.
So far it’s Minnesoda spicy, and I can’t taste any heat.
Harry Thanksgiweeng!
FedEx now has my deadline and I’ve gotten negative progress made on preparing for it’s arrival.
🤬
Full belly.
Decent weather (still picking away at the new worktruck) in the big shop.
Happy healthy kiddos.
Financial balance is in the black for the year until the taxman comes next month.
I concluded that Thursday is a rather arbitrary day to have Thanksgiving so I am having it Saturday instead so that I can rest today.
It was required to be alliterative, so the alternative was Tuesday.
Happy Thanksgiving to the lot of you.
I’m gonna drink wine and watch football a while before cleaning the house.
Cat approves.
My wife and the boy took this week off from school to get the house tidied up. Then we all got sick. So much for cleaning.
And so XY was able to get TDay off. His employer’s only working reefer box truck had an unfortunate encounter with a particularly sharp-eyed state trooper who took offense that it had passed a weigh station. Got a 3-hour inspection and 18 violations, so they got put out of service. Thus, a booked catering event could not happen.
Have I said I hate weigh stations recently?
There was a state cop in my area until he retired who pulled out this 3” thick book and jabbed at it while telling my father and I “do you know what’s in here?! I do. And you need to too! I can write six tickets in a brand new truck.”
Retired jarhead double dipping as a state patrol goon.
Anyone with that attitude is unfit for office and should be deprived off any and all authority.
They are legion UCS.
It’s very common to find them at weigh stations.
Their day is ruined by working for 2.5 times the cash on thanksgiving so yours will be too.
I bet that truck was under 26,000 pounds too.
Yes, but from what XY told me, the truck really shouldn’t have been on the road. Brakes worn to slivers and leaking brake fluid and bald tires are pretty damned serious. The rest of his employer’s fleet is in equally bad condition and in various states of unlawfulness. Big company. No fleet manager.
They deserved it.
They’ll get hit with fines greater than the cost to fix it. Which will put off them fixing it even longer.
Yeeeesh. I’m sorry. That’s a veritable shitshow on Thanksgiving. Fuck. Hope it ends as best as it possibly can.
This popped up in my X feed for reasons that are beyond me.
So I’m putting it in your Glib stream so you can experience the befuddlement and annoyance that comes with left coast virtue signaling.
https://x.com/EllenBarkin/status/1994118999991570923?s=19
I decline to follow that link.
Smart move
Spoke to my drugged-up dad. Seems that everything went well. They were going to get him standing up in a little bit.
P.S. nobody called me to update me all day today. I had to eventually call my dad’s wife’s son for info. Then I was finally able to reach my dad at 4:30 🙄
To be thankful, as I’m sure I’m gonna have a spot on Sat to say to fam:
* I’m thankful I have a shockingly supportive, ‘perfect’ family. Here since ’21, with a short exception in Kokomo. I’d likely be in a gutter, otherwise. Constant support and never anything nasty. (I’m Evan-wise for staying politically silent. No need to add that.)
* I’m astoundingly thankful to TPTB. This place is the only ‘normal’ sanctum I have access to where I don’t have to mute or stifle myself.
* For still exploring my way ’round the sun in new, necessary and odd ways. Despite my current ‘holdover’ station. It ain’t no Purgatory.
* For all that, I’m thankful I still awake in the morning. I don’t know how many woulda lived thru The Incident, and in continuation of that, in a boasty sorta way, I’m proud and thankful I remain persistently chipper about it and the current state of affairs. That came from my upbringing, nature *and* nurture, so that ties the loop back to #1 up there.
Brined and injected whole turkey*, a smoked turkey breast, mashed taters, gravy, green bean hotdish, wild rice hotdish, fresh baked buns with Danish butter.
Dessert will be apple crisp with vanilla ice cream.
Football is on the telly. Two of the kids are snoring.
I’m thankful for this bastion of sanity. You guys are the best.
*via Brian Langerstrom, one of my favorite food youtubers – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcb4R6wRSzQ
It is kind of scary that this here place is a bastion of sanity, as weird as most of us are in one way or more.
Im not weird, im strange
No different than most of the other found families I belong to. Everyone is broken, but some pieces still fit together.
well, if everyone is cray-cray, a bastion of insanity can appear to be a bastion of sanity. To the insane. I think.
Merry Thanksgiving and Happy Christmas and to all a good night.
Weirdness is the spice of life.
The rule for spice is as with other items – Moderation in all things.
Oh, speaking of Christmas playlists, this is the one I grew up with. I had to upload some of the tracks myself, but I finally compiled it.
Glibsgiving Zoom
At least they aren’t cowboys? Seriously who cares? If you aren’t interested don’t watch.
Given I’m not gay and don’t give a shit about hockey…
Rolling Stone
How to Watch ‘Heated Rivalry,’ the Gay Hockey Drama That’s Got the Internet’s Jockstraps In a Jumble
Yesterday
By Tim Chan
The Hollywood Reporter
How ‘Heated Rivalry’ Became the Internet’s Favorite Show — Before It’s Even Aired
2 days ago
By Nicole Fell
Bell Media
Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie Slice The Ice and Keep a Secret in HEATED RIVALRY
5 hours ago
What a different world. I saw 9 of these in the theater. Now I haven’t been to a theater in twenty plus years.
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/11/blast-from-the-past-15-movie-gems-of-1985/
1: Never Heard of it
2: Never Heard of it
3: Haven’t Watched it
4: Saw it
5: Never Heard of it
6: Haven’t Watched it
7: Never Heard of it
8: Never Heard of it
9: Never Heard of it
10: Haven’t Watched it
11: Never Heard of it
12: Never Heard of it
13: Never Heard of it
14: Haven’t Watched it
15: Never Heard of it
Mind you, in 1985, I turned 3. I saw nothing in theaters that year.
I was in HS. You didn’t have that many entertainment options.
Clue is obviously brilliant. Real Genius is too. The rest are either shit or I’ve never heard of them. I turned 10 in 85.
Or 9. Whatever.
Stupid math.
Brazil if you haven’t seen it deserves a watch.
Brazil… I’ve seen bits here and there, I own it… but I’ve never watched the whole thing lol.
Ladyhawke is the guilty pleasure on that list for me.
Sensei:
Did you fill out the proper form to recommend Brazil?
Clue is my favorite movie. Several phrases have entered my everyday speech.
“That soup is delicious!” is my line to jokingly or seriously, suddenly change the subject, for example.
1985 was the year I lived in Germany. The family I was living with didn’t care for the movies, I guess. The only movie I saw in the theater that year was Back to the Future and that was on a visit to a friend in another town.
After Hours was great.
Gee, who would’ve suspected that an authorette for Ars Technica would have a fetish for Oscar bait and art-film wankery?
In 1985, I was in that sweet spot of “old enough to drive but not old enough to get into bars,” and subsequently watched a lot of feature films that year. My tastes weren’t those of an auteur, so here’s Shpip’s List of 1985 Movies Worth a Re-Watch if Nothing Else Is On:
The Mean Season
Vision Quest
Police Academy 2
Cat’s Eye
Code of Silence (’cause Chuck Norris)
Brewster’s Millions
Fletch
Cocoon
Pale Rider
Fright Night
Weird Science
Better Off Dead
Invasion USA (there’s Norris again)
Jagged Edge
White Nights
Out of Africa
I’m deliberately leaving out the blockbusters (Rambo II, Rocky IV, Back to the Future) and any movie mentioned in the article.
Now discuss amongst yourselves and tell me what a Philistine I was as a kid.
Better Off Dead is a brilliant film, and pairs wonderfully with One Crazy Summer. Both are quotable as hell.
Golly. Weird Science and Better Off Dead were also 85.
Better Off Dead needs more love.
Neph, I knew I liked you.
Will do in the next movie post.
A lot of good movies on both lists. Jeebus. I couldn’t say the same about any year since 2000 or so.
Vision Quest is worth a watch.
“Can’t hold your mud.”
But, from the original list, After Hours is wonderfully weird.
I did really enjoy Pale Rider.
Last night I watched Office Space again. More true with every day.
Moonstruck is the best romcom of all time.
+ PC Load Letter
I watch Susan every time it’s on.
Heh, I’ve seen it couple times and it is worth a rewatch. It doesn’t show up anywhere that I’ve seen.
In the company of wolves is good.
I saw pee week’s big adventure in theatres. May have seen lady hawk as well. My parents didn’t always have a babysitter when they went to the theatre.
1: Seen it, forgettable
2: Excellent flick
3: Excellent flick
4: Excellent flick
5: Never heard of it
6: Chick flick, didn’t bother to see it
7: Never heard of it
8: Seen it, forgettable
9: Fun movie
10: Seen it
11: Never heard of it
12: Saw it, didn’t like it (not a fan of gangster movies)
13: Excellent flick, surprise from Woody Allen
14: Classic
15: Heard of it, never seen it.
I’m thankful for my wife and our marriage. I’m thankful for my children. I’m thankful I have enough comfort and stability to be able to have a thriving music hobby.
Back from a Thanksgiving buffet at a historic restaurant in a small town SW of Dayton with my sisters, BIL, and a couple of their friends. Thankful that I neither had to host nor cook, and thankful that my BIL didn’t bring up politics.
Those us us within 10l miles of Cincinnati really ought to do a Glib outing of some design. There are several of us.
100 miles
Skyline Chili all around!
How did I get back in time to host movie night? Inconceivable!
Game over. Season over.Chiefs fans need to accept the fact that they need to win nine straight games in order to win a Super Bowl this season(Chiefs fan).
TH is back!!!!!
I haven’t watched a single game this season.
1. Sloppy playing, which I’ve been bitching about for years, has come back to bite them in the ass.
2. Penalties. I’m fucking sick and tired of all the pussy bullshit rules. Like, dude, could you let them play for more than 2 minutes at a time?
Oh…Happy Thanksgiving. Believe it or not, I truly have a deep love and appreciation for many of you… I’m thankful for your thoughts, kindness, willingness to to engage with me and make feel welcome in your community and the ability to endure my silly,shallow, grammatically cringe worthy intellectually shallow rants for these last fifteen odd years between TOS and here. I love you all. I sincerely mean that
I have the same feelings
Have a blessed and happy holiday season, my friend.
I have a lot to be thankful for, and I should contemplate that more often.
I cried because I only had Bud Light until I saw a man who only had an IPA.