Thanksgiving is a time for Peanuts and Macy's...
I don't care at all that the "new" Christmas season started the day after Halloween, but on my scheduler, it still begins next Friday...the day AFTER Thanksgiving. Until then, there's still two traditions that we haven't gone through yet: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The Peanuts gang first introduced me to what the definition of "gay" was. I mean, I had seen it at work already on "Scooby-Doo" with the Velma character who had the deep voice, short hair, and glasses BUT, I got the full idea when Peppermint Patty showed up with her gal-pal Marcie to Charlie Brown's House for Thanksgiving. Looking back at it all, is a big dinner amongst family and friends the right time to "come out of the closet"? Those two could have saved their big surprise for another time like Valentine's or Halloween. After all, that was the reason why Charlie Brown got so hysterical preparing dinner for the gang...he was flustered! The poor guy was afraid of what everyone might think, which resulted in a dinner of toast, cereal, pretzels and gumdrops until Charlie Brown's Grandma called to invite the whole gang over. Which is another thing that STILL gets me confused. What kind of Grandma waits until 4 o' clock on Thanksgiving to decide to give you a call and have you over for dinner? I'd have told her to stick it and stayed home! Besides that, how do you explain two lesbians under 10 years old to your Grandma? Nevertheless, a family classic (pushing the gay subtlties out of the way). ...Another family classic one week from today is the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The one that usually features Al Roker, Matt Laurer, and Katie Couric schmoozing it up in front of the camera while half the City of New York lines the streets in rain, cold and snow to watch silly high school marching bands and outdated giant helium balloons as well as people like Regis Philbin lip-sync words to a Christmas tune. Now, to me this was always the "official" beginning of Christmas. We don't have such a thing anymore. Christmas began in October, and we can't really even say it's "Christmas" anymore either...it's now just plain old "Happy Holidays"! Hard to believe that just a few years ago can now be considered the "good old days"! As far as I'm concerned, for the next week you can take your Christmas songs, trees, cards, and commercials, and stuff 'em in your turkey! THAT'S the way I see things today.
posted by Dave Sypniewski at
Thursday, November 17, 2005
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