Before I stuff my face with turkey, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, etc, I’d like to share a laugh with you, so here’s a 1945 cartoon from MGM titled JERKY TURKEY, directed by the great Tex Avery, with the voices of Daws Butler and Bill “Droopy” Thompson. Enjoy, and have a safe and happy holiday!
Tag Archives: Thanksgiving
1 More Day Til Thanksgiving…
By Norman Rockwell
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
— William Blake
2 More Days Til Thanksgiving…
By Norman Rockwell
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
— Victor Hugo
By Norman Rockwell
3 More Days Til Thanksgiving
By Joseph Christopher
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
— Henry David Thoreau
By Norman Rockwell
4 More Days Til Thanksgiving…
By Natalia Vetrova
No quote necessary.
5 More Days Til Thanksgiving…
by Norman Rockwell
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
— Oscar Wilde
6 More Days Til Thanksgiving…
By Bridget Voth
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
— W. Clement Stone
12 Things For Which I Am Thankful This Thanksgiving
Hello there and Happy Thanksgiving! This is the time of year when we gather together, we look over the past few months, and we think about what we are thankful for. A lot of people online have also suggested that Thanksgiving is the perfect time to argue with relatives who hold different political views from you.
And sure — if you want to ruin Thanksgiving for everyone, go ahead and be that person. But for me, I’m just going to list 12 things that make me happy to be alive in 2014!
1) Dancing Groot! Actually, I’m thankful for all of the Guardians of the Galaxy but I’m especially happy that Groot is still around and he’s still dancing!
2) I’m thankful that Adult Swim is showing old Thanksgiving episodes of King of the Hill so that I’ll have an excuse not to watch any football games.
3) I’m thankful for all of The Hunger Games films and I’m thankful for the strength and empowerment that Jennifer Lawrence brings to the role of Katniss Everdeen.
4) I’m thankful that everything is awesome!
5) I’m thankful that this is the year that everyone else finally discovered that Shailene Woodley is one of the best actresses working today.
6) I’m thankful for Chris Pratt. (Who isn’t?)
7) I am especially thankful for sites like Awards Watch and Awards Circuit. These two sites provide some of the best Oscar coverage around and, unlike Awards Daily, they manage to do it while remaining fair, honest, and entertaining.
8) I’m thankful William J. Mann’s excellent book Tinseltown, a wonderful look back at the Hollywood of the 1920s and the unsolved murder of director William Desmond Taylor.
9) I’m thankful for the haunting perfection of True Detective.
10) I’m thankful for the hilarious satire of Veep. Meyer in 2016!
11) I’m thankful that Richard Linklater spent 12 years making Boyhood.
12) And, most importantly, I’m thankful for you! Thank you for visiting this site! Thank you for reading our reviews! Thank you for leaving comments! Thank you for making all of this worthwhile!
And, most of all, here’s hoping you had a Happy Thanksgiving!
Love you!
Happy Thanksgiving!
To our readers in the U.S., Happy Thanksgiving from the Shattered Lens! Stay safe, be thankful, and enjoy the food!
12 Random Things That I Am Thankful For In 2013
Happy Thanksgiving!
Traditionally here in the States, Thanksgiving is the forgotten holiday that sits between Halloween and Christmas. This is the time of year that those of us in the States are supposed to think about what we are thankful for. According to the people in Washington, this year we’re also supposed to talk to all of the members of our family about politics. They’ve even made talking points available, just in case you have a relative who isn’t crazy about your personal ideology. To me, though, that seems kind of foolish. Why would you ruin a perfectly good Thanksgiving with politics when you could spend your time thinking, talking, and arguing about movies and television?
After all, Presidents are only around for, at the most, eight years. Movies are forever.
With that in mind, here are twelve random things that I am thankful for in 2013.
1) I’m thankful that there are still visionaries like Shane Carruth who can make films like Upstream Color.
2) I’m thankful for actors, like Robert Downey, Jr., who are capable of making mainstream films, like Iron Man 3, memorable.
3) I’m thankful that a show like Breaking Bad got a chance to remind us of just how good television can be.
4) I’m thankful for Blue Is The Warmest Color.
5) I’m thankful that at least some people understand that The Counselor is one of the best films of 2013.
6) I’m thankful that this October was this site’s most succesful horror month yet!
7) I’m thankful that, in 2013, we can still watch movies like The Passion of Joan of Arc.
8) I’m thankful that I actually saw Tyler Perry’s Temptation because, otherwise, I would not believe that such an inept and deeply offensive film could have been made.
9) I am thankful for Icona Pop’s I Love It, which is currently my favorite song to play while I’m dancing around the house in my underwear.
10) I am thankful that the series finale of The Office was everything that it should have been.
11) I am thankful that Dexter finally ended because, seriously, the show was getting so bad that it was running the risk of overshadowing how good the first few seasons actually were.
12) Finally, and most importantly, I am thankful for our readers and for our subscribers. Y’all are the ones who make all of this worthwhile. Thank you!
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