[lbo-talk] Ritual Sacrifice with Pies (was happy thanksgiving)

Gar Lipow the.typo.boy at gmail.com
Thu Nov 24 16:38:43 PST 2005


On 11/24/05, info at pulpculture.org <info at pulpculture.org> wrote:
> I think he was identifying, not as a citizen, but as a countrymen, which is
> a little definition found on infoshop.org. It's sort of like loving your
> family: they are fucked up fuckers, but you were born into it and you still
> tend to love most of 'em or, at least, tolerate them. No sooner are you
> going to run off to Seattle and denounce your family and form a new one,
> than are USers going to give up the ritual of stuffing themselves, baking
> apple pies out the ying yang, squabbling, and getting piss drunk in front
> of a football game, one hand on the aching gut, the other close to the beer
> can and bag of Doritos. :)
>
>
> More pie for thought:
>
> http://murdershow.net/post/2005-11-23/fuck-cool/#more-54
> http://redstateson.blogspot.com
> http://www.livejournal.com/users/kdotdammit/585373.html (hell, just go to
> the main blog and reall all the entries on the ritual of TG. just read the
> entire page with entries on Thanksgiving. Damn, I'm so glad someone else
> looks like I do when baking.)
>
> She's the same person who wrote this:
> http://bad.eserver.org/issues/1995/20/nicolini.html
>
> such a horrid horrid person for not sitting in a corner brooding about
> genocide.
>
> Bitch | Lab

I always like the take a Buffy episode I enjoyed had on it. On thanksgiving USAians kill an animal to celebrate an important occassion. Its a ritual sacrifice - with pie.



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