you used to be alright

i wish that turkey could cost a nickel

the most wonderful time of the year has came and went. thanksgiving!

of course, what we’re really celebrating is a group of WOEFULLY unprepared english types who arrived in the colonies with things like 200 pairs of shoes (for one guy), musical instruments, and encyclopedias, but no farming equipment, hunting equipment, fishing line, or anyone who knew anything about living off the land or in the wilderness. Seriously. (All knowledge cribbed from Bill Bryson’s excellent I’m a Stranger Here Myself.