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November 22, 2001:

THANKSGIVING AND WHAT IT ALL MEANS

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Well, dear readers, here we are, Thanksgiving of 2001. Back in 1968 when I saw 2001 at the old Warner Cinerama on Hollywood Boulevard, it seemed inconceivable that I’d be writing bk’s notes II right here at haineshisway.com. Well, of course it seemed inconceivable, because the internet would have seemed inconceivable back then (presumably if it had been conceivable then someone would have conceived it) and yet here we all are, on the internet in the year 2001. In point of fact, the year 1968 now seems inconceivable to me – which is all part and parcel of the time/space continuum effect. I don’t know what the time/space continuum effect is, but I like the sound of it. What am I, Ray Bradbury all of a sudden?

I will keep these notes short today, because I know that there is turkey to be stuffed, gravy to be graved, cranberries to be cranned, and, as the King would say, etc. etc. etc. I hope that all my dear readers will eat voluminous amounts of food so that we can all feel stuffed like the turkeys do.

I missed the Thanksgiving Day Parade as I do every year, but I heard there were many Broadway musicals represented. I tried to sleep in this morning… What does that mean? I tried to sleep in? What, I should try to sleep out? It’s far too cold to sleep out, so of course I tried to sleep in. What I should have said was I tried to sleep late this morning, but some inconsiderate wazoo was running the engine of his motorcycle. He never, as far as I could tell, actually went anywhere, he just kept revving the engine until I wanted to go outside and hit him with a cheese slice. Instead, I got up and ate a cheese slice, an invigorating thing to do at eight-thirty in the morning.

Well, if these notes are going to be short, then perhaps we should all click the Unseemly Button below so they can end.

Welcome back, to the Short Notes of Thanksgiving. Tomorrow, there will be longer notes. First of all, I will be able to tell you all about all the various and sundried foodstuffs I will have eaten. Second of all, there are more movies to review. Third of all, there will be many other things to write about. Fourth of all, there is the small matter of the time/space continuum. Oh, yes, there is the small matter of the time/space continuum. We simply can’t drop that, can we? No, we must continuum talking about the time/space continuum, because that is an Important Scientific Concept and must be addressed. I’ll adress it now.

Time Space Continuum
c/o Important Scientific Concept
1236 Portentous Rd.
Large Ideas, IA 54321

Well, it’s not going to go uphill from here, so perhaps we’d all just better go eat our large Thanksgiving meals and be truly thankful for that which we should be truly thankful, and the hell with those and that we should not be thankful for.

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