well, well.... welcome to the Post-Thanksgiving Carnival of the NJ Bloggers, #28!!! i took it upon myself to whip up a few items to serve y'all... hopefully everyone is comfortable and has found a seat at the table...
my Thanksgiving was spent winning and losing a little dough in Atlantic City... feasted on a comp meal of turkey and prime rib at ye ol Trump Marina... i also began to break into podcasting, so feel free to venture over to gigglechick.net for less writing, more yapping... and on monday, a fella i know was taping his stand-up set on letterman and asked if i wanted to go... oh, and gigglemom got an email that contained THIS... nice that she can see my nekkid stuff online (someone else submitted it).
that said, dig in to the feast before you!
thanks and giving:
• ipso facto has a post that hits home for me, a little too closely!!!
• inadmissible evidence reflects on the holiday
• sluggo definitely needs a nap after the tryptophan-filled thursday
• virtual memories savouring the last morsel of bachelordom
• joe's journal, as well as, the pink panther took advantage of the black friday sales... (all i can hear in my head now is the pink panther theme.)
• xpatriated texan lists what he's thankful for (after ranting a bit)
i love a parade:
• the balloon has burst over at the riehl world
• the rix mix made a few observances during the Macy's parade
reminiscing:
• down the shore thinks back to an asbury park of yesteryear
• jersey days remembers where he was on an unfortunate day in november '63
• the opinion mill ships his pup off to the farm
• shamrocketship remembers back when she was in high school in 1924... wait, what? heh... she scored a rare find in red bank this week.
• the rix mix looks back on Black Friday past
sidedishes:
• suzette seems to have something up the wazoo about a certain advert
• apparently, the average ones are gifted and talented over in the art of getting by's neighbourhood
• cobweb has a nice autumnal image
• center of nj life and ecache both are waving smoke away from their faces
• humans behaving badly 
had to work, of all things, on Turkey Day (saving grace was the time and a half she received, though...)
• tigerhawk gives a piece of his, erm, i mean, someone's mind (and also gives me a shoutout... *mwah*!)
• dossy discusses health, wealth & happiness
• nj spoken word has a post on michael jackson being an anti-semite. eh... i guess a remake of "ebony and ivory" would be a little different? ebonyyyy and gooo-oold-steinnnn.....
and now we have the rambling drunk uncle who won't stop talking about politics... pretty soon, you'll have to excuse yourself to go to the bathroom and sneak out the backdoor to get some fresh air - in this case, there are a bunch of folks who you need to just nod politely at until they finish:
• smadanek was yammering about state tax cuts
• fractals of change is chattering about keeping order in the streets
• badhairblog quotes some articles
• armies of liberation sounds like she's ready to be found on a milk carton after the Yemeni folk are done with her.
• tammany on the hudson has a bunch to say on robert menendez
• enlightennj gets his digs in on the democratic party (a few weeks after the people have spoken in the garden state *ahem*)
• the wrightwing discusses eating out of dumpsters just as i was about to take a forkful of mashed potatoes *setting utensil down*
• bluejersey.net gives a verbal tongue-lashing to the O.C. freeholders
• and on this festive, happy thanksgiving weekend, threats watch writes about such pleasant news < /sarcasm >
digesting with the teevee, good books, and film:
• shipwrecks points out a documentary airing sunday night (hey! that's tonight!) on the SciFi Channel
• jersey writers discusses the Top Books amongst other things (don't let the photo on the page frighten you....)
• badhairblog talks about old man Potter, no, wait, too soon for It's a Wonderful Life... I meant BHB discusses Young Boy Potter!
• the eternal golden braid covers film, teevee and e-books!
desserts:
• uncle tonoose brings up some sweet stuff about Nutley
•don we now our gay un-i-forms, fa-la-la-la-la, wait... erm... not that there's anything wrong with that and i'm not discriminating, karl's corner
on to the next holiday:
• merry christmahannekwanzakah, barista
• cinnaman has a lovely little christmas story from Santa's Little HelpDesk
• word to the wise... definitely don't piss off your bartender... especially if it's philly2hoboken!
so, my cheeky little monkeys, thanks for plowing through this and sending in your links... tune in next sunday when This Full House hosts the Carnival!
[of course, wizbang is having a carnival of the trackbacks which is similar, yet different to this carnival!]
