It's Thanksgiving time. We here at the Zawiya wish you all a wonderful holiday. Beyond the food, and the gathering of the friends and the family, my favorite part has always been the lazy morning around the house. My various relatives usually have very elaborate meals planned, and they being the stellar chefs that they are, usually do not ask for help, willing though I am to provide it. This frees me up to sit around and watch one of America's hokiest traditions, the Macy's Day Parade (the enjoyment of which is passed the the patrilineal line directly to me from my dad, who, to my knowledge, has never missed the parade). It also frees me up to watch the annual trouncing of the Lions. Like most NFL fans, I've often wondered why the Detroit Lions -- a team that, for all intents and purposes, have been really very bad for a long time and who do not seem to have an especially large national fanbase -- play every year on Thanksgiving, but I suppose it's about as natural as watching lip-synched duet of "My Country 'Tis of Thee" by Taylor Hanson and Julianne Hough in the Macy's Parade. The nice thing about commercialized holidays is that we're encouraged not to ask too many questions.
So beyond being thankful for my wife, my family, and my friends, here are a few off the wall things I am grateful for this Thanksgiving. This list is partially inspired by a game I played with my niece a year ago when we drew hand-turkeys and wrote the things we were thankful for in the fingers. I wrote "mayonnaise" and "socks" as two of mine, and she's never let me live it down. Here's a few more: the Thanksgiving weekend football schedule, which provides a constant flow of high quality rivalry games all the way through Sunday; smoked turkey and Duke's mayonnaise; Kentucky WR Randall Cobb; the complete irreverence of most of Ween's recorded output; the handful of impeccable pop songs that sprinkle throughout that same Ween recorded output ("Stay Forever", "Joppa Road", "Ocean Man", "What Deaner Was Talking About"); Butterfingers, both the candy bar and the power-pop tune by Gentleman Jesse; smart wool; good punting and an old-fashioned field position battle; decorative gourd season; my/our impending honeymoon trip to Egypt; the slim possibility that the US and North Korea as well as France and Algeria could be drawn into the same World Cup groups; oatmeal; "Careful with that Axe, Eugene" by Pink Floyd; knowing that I will not be standing in line anywhere on "Black Friday".
Anyone else care to add?
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