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November 23, 1978 – East Village – Journal Entry – VDO

November 22, 2023 – 12:59 pm

Thanksgiving 1978. Rainy. High 45. Low 31. LSD. I cook the turkey without a gauge on the stove. It came out perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-K8dJuuZz8

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Today’s Thanks

November 24, 2022 – 4:56 am

Today America commemorates Pilgrims’ gratitude to the local Indians lessons in food-gathering, especially those Wampanoag tribesmen of Squanto, who helped the religious refugees survive that first year in Plymouth. Their neighbors celebrated their harvest with three-day feast of the three sisters; maize, climbing beans, and squash. The holiday was made official in 1789 by George […]

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The Elegance of the Wampanoags

November 24, 2022 – 2:57 am

The Wampanoags were not the savages, but the people of the dawn were driven near-extinction by a bacterial infection carried the Pilgrims, which left them defenseless to raids by the Micmacs and Pequots. Despite these calamities the Wampanoags living near the Plymouth supposedly celebrated a particularly good harvest with the Pilgrims in the autumn of1621. […]

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Facebook Ban on No Thanks Day

November 28, 2019 – 3:46 am

In 2013 I wrote the following on my Facebook page. “My people arrived on the Mayflower. Howlands. We’re still here. Where are the Wampanoags? On Nantucket protesting Thanksgiving. Happy Turkey Day.” An hour later the message and comments were removed by someone. I am unable to use my home page and Facebook posted this. Account […]

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Trump Tricks Turkey

November 20, 2018 – 8:50 pm

Donald Trump pardoned the White House turkey, but had the CIA rendition the bird to black-ops site, where his son shot it for sport. He thought it was a leopard. # 2 how do you feed the White House horde with one turkey? One bird was barely enough to serve a white family of five […]

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