Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: 90 years of looking up

The balloons began as a solution to a problem. The first three years of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, from 1924 to 1927, featured not floating fantasy creatures, but real ones — tigers, elephants, camels and donkeys — from the Central Park Zoo.

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WKRP In Perpetuity

Television has been instrumental in rock and roll history since Elvis Presley's first appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1956. Nineteen years later came the debut of Saturday Night Live, arguably the first network program with a fully rock-bred sensibility.



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Watch Cara Delevingne, Kate Hudson And Kurt Russell’s Beard Compete In A Thanksgiving Dance War

You can thank Julianne Hough for this gem. The Dancing With the Stars judge has a pretty talented family and they don’t mind showing off their dance skills during holiday get together.



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Washington's Football Team Would Like You to Know That It Just Doesn't Give a Shit

1. An indefensible history of slaughtering Native Americans. The football team in Washington DC has an offensive, racist name; a slur against Native Americans.



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Why Adam Sandler's 'Thanksgiving Song' Is a Holiday Classic

There's so much to love about Thanksgiving: the piles of food, the expressions of gratitude, that uncle that still tries to get you to pull his finger, the four-day weekend, etc. And yet, this late November feast of gluttony is easily the most underserved among the major U.S.



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#tbt: 'WKRP' drops 'Turkeys Away' on shopping center

On this date in history, Oct. 30: Orson Welles scared the Halloween out of everyone with his "War of the Worlds" radio play in 1938 about a fictional Martian invasion. … And WKRP terrorized shoppers at a fictional Cincinnati mall by dropping live turkeys on them from a helicopter in 1978.



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(WKRP) Thanksgiving

First, Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers in the US.

Secondly, I just remembered a childhood memory about Thanksgiving.  The WKRP episode with the bombing turkeys, and the lines that still makes me weep with laughter:  "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

Happy Day to all of you at home and abroad. May your day be filled with laughter and good times!