Hard to believe that it's been a year already, but it has, and in exactly one week...the saga continues. It's almost time for X-Entertainment's 2007 Advent Calendar! If you're new to the site, look for a history lesson later in the week. Meantime, feel free to peruse the Advent Calendars of yesteryear, which are all required reading if you want to make any sense of what's coming up in a week:
2002! - 2003! - 2004! - 2005! - 2006!
Thanksgiving was nice. Nothing out of the ordinary. I made a slight etiquette faux pas by "calling a wing" early in the day, and after the turkey was carted out, wing-lovers from one tip of the table to the other shot me dirty looks. Worst of all, I didn't even eat it, and no matter how much I tried to hide that fact by building a turkey wing tent out of side dishes, everyone who wanted one couldn't believe that I'd wasted mine. I guess I was in it more for the trophy than the tryptophan.
My artichokes went over swimmingly. I'm glad they did, because I will never make them again.
Spent much of yesterday being as lazy as humanly possible, watching DVDs and taking advantage of online sales to get almost all of my Christmas shopping done in record time. Course, some of the sales were so good that I couldn't help treating myself. I mean, I fought for and won a Thanksgiving turkey wing...clearly I deserved something for that
Not sure if that "something" should've been the Seinfeld Season 1 DVD, but there I was, ordering it. I've come to the conclusion that I'll buy just about anything if it's more than 50% off. It took me a solid fifteen minutes to convince myself to remove a bread maker from my virtual shopping cart, and I'm still not sure if it was the right decision.
Remember the Halloween Countdown? It was pretty awesome and thorough, waddn't it? If you'll recall, one of the few entries I managed to bang out before losing my smile was on Edy's Pumpkin Ice Cream, a delicious dessert imbued with holiday sprit. It only made sense that they'd do the same for Christmas, and this time, they've doubled their efforts!
The new flavors include Egg Nog and Peppermint. The former seems to be adult-skewing, while the latter is obviously more for kids. I have no real basis for that theory, but I'm sticking with it. If you're over 18, you're not allowed to have Edy's Peppermint Ice Cream.
They're both okay, but I'm not into either flavor enough to pray for them to become perennials. Of the two, I like the egg noggy cream a bit better -- it's subtle, it's sweet, and it's one of those newfangled "double churned" ice creams that make me feel like a better person from a higher social class when I eat it.
very pepperminty, complete with swirls of bright red "gel" which provide an extra boost of spicy sugar. If a flavor could ever be called "gimmicky," this is it. Probably serviceable for holiday parties or random Christmas-fueled weekends, but when you're just looking to be a gluttonous pig, stick with chocolate.
Pretty sure we're going back to daily blogging now that the turkey is out of my hair. See ya tomorrow, and have fun SNT'ing!
Posted by Matt on 11/24/2007. E-mail me!
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RE: Saturday Night Live’s Thanksgiving special tonight. I am really liking it so far. I just saw Will Ferrell chew up food and spit it into Chris Parnell’s mouth. That was so disgusting I may not be able to eat for a day. They also showed Sandler’s Thanksgiving song. So far so good.
That would be the infamous “Bird Family” sketch. And it was a nice treat to see the Superfans (damn, that food looked good), a “Loud Family” sketch from Early Years, Adam Sandler’s first Thanksgiving song (the tradition would indeed live on in every near-thanksgiving show for at least the next 4 or 5 seasons), as well as an Ed Grimley sketch.
If you think these past few seasons were unfunny, you must not have watched it during the early 80s. I at least laughed at some of the more recent sketches, but I do love Martin Short’s acting and delivery, and until Mr. Wilson and his dad showed up, it was just him speaking this crazy monologue.
Back to the Bird Family sketch, it ranks as one of the Grossest SNL Sketches of all-time, at least in my book. The others on my list:
-Cluckin’ Chicken
-Crystal Gravy
-The Puking Sketch
-and Massive Headwound Harry (which is, incidentally, one of my favorite sketches of all-time)
As for presents, yes, I had the “From Santa”, epsecially when I was a kid. I still get a few with that now, just for kicks & giggles from my parents.
Although there was one present many years ago that may actually have been “From Santa”: a Yankees Christmas Ornament. My parents had no idea how it got there, or who bought it, but it was there under the tree that year.
Also, there was one Christmas Eve night/Christmas Morning where I definitely heard a faint “Ho Ho Ho” coming from somewhere. I was scared shitless, I kid you not.