Safe travels out there today, tonight and tomorrow

Try and make your trip Owen free.

Happy Thanksgiving Eve

A great day in the American experience, the day before the turkey. Traveling, catching up with friends who are also back in town, movies, bars or just hanging at home with family.

If you are traveling today we wish you a safe trip and please don't forget the people train don't run out of Wichita, people train runs out of Ssstubville...

A little pre-Thanksgiving fun

So where's the party this three-day weekend?

Where is everyone off to? Helping rededicate a favorite town down on the shore? Upstate NY? Hanging around town? Tell us what you're up to in comments.

For all of our readers unlucky enough to have to travel today

Here's hoping your holiday travels come off without a hitch

Or you at least meet some interesting people on your Thanksgiving journey.

Late night open thread

Tonight this blog, along with a gazillion others, will have clips of a John Hughes film he either directed or was the screenwriter for. His influence on people Johnny's age is immense and seemingly neverending. The classic films, the lines Johnny still uses (even here) from said films is a labor of love. Nobody in Hollywood connected with Johnny's generation better than John Hughes. A lot of lines from Hughes' films have become everyday expressions in the American vernacular. Not many in the film business can say that.

We mourn his sudden passing with what else? Clips of his work...

National Lampoon's Vacation (note a very young Jane Krakowski with her arm in the Kool-Aid jar)


Planes Trains & Automobiles (A line Johnny loves to use while traveling: "Lessen you're a hog or a cattle")


Weird Science


Time for Jersey City, After Dark