Category: Hallothanksholinewyear
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Fifty years of holiday memories
SixtiesRemember? Bob Hope performing for the troopsKitchen Smelled like: Julia Child’s beef bourguignonOn the hi-fi: Nat King Cole, “The Christmas Song”On the tube: Charlie Brown, Rudolph, Frosty, and the Grinch specialsIn theaters: Babes in Toyland, Santa Claus Conquers the MartiansUnder the (flocked) tree: Hot Wheels, Easy-Bake Oven, Etch A SketchSeventiesRemember? Waiting for our Polaroid photos…
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A Thanksgiving Pie-ku
Fullness is a myth.Just Unbutton, take a slice…Pumpkin? Apple? Both.Rhymes with Orange comic by Hilary Price, 2013-11-28
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Happy Halloween
Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn’t even the star of his own Halloween special.Chris Rock
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9-1-1 call
“Hello, is this the Police?”“Yes. What do you want?”“I’m calling to report about my neighbor Billy Smith! He is hiding marijuana inside his firewood.”“Thank you very much for the call, sir.”The next day, the Police descend on Billy’s house. They search the shed where the firewood is kept. Using axes, they bust open every piece…
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Happy New Year!
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice, And to make an end is to make a beginning.T. S. Eliot
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Eight Candles, Nine Lives
We parents work so hard to relay the historical and spiritual import of religious holidays. No, we explain, Hanukkah is not primarily about gift giving; it’s about a long-ago freedom struggle. The eight-day winter holiday celebrates the successful resistance of the Jews against King Antiochus IV of Syria and the restoration of the Second Temple…