*Tour-ette on the 4th of July from Cherry Grove, Fire Island... and a reminder! 7/4/2024

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(photo by John Burke)

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A Christmas Special on PBS!!!...

...it's the famous Christmas Special, EBENEEZER & DRACULA MEET FROSTY THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN & THE HANUKKAH GHOUL (1962). A holiday screwball comedy-horror romp starring Rathbone, Price, Lorre, Karloff, and featuring Christopher Lee as Prancer, Peter Cushing as Mr. Potter, Lon Chaney, Jr. as Hermey the Misfit Elf, and Sabu as Tiny Tim.... with Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Santa Claus, Yvette Mimieux as Little Dorrit, Linda Hunt as the Mistletoe Monster, and Herve Villechaize as a plum pudding...ON FIRE!!. (This program is made possible by the George and Mary Bailey Very Charitable Trust… and by contributions to your PBS station from Viewers .....Like YOU! Thank You!)

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Sybil Bruncheon's Holiday Hollywood Hilarity!

"If ah told you once, ah've told you a thousand times!... FRESH NUTMEG in the egg nog! FRESH!!!! Not this Durkee's crap!"...

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Sybil Bruncheon's Holiday Hollywood Hilarity!

"Yes, the bustline DOES make me look like a Christmas Toffee, doesn't it? Would you like to …unwrap me, Mr. DeWitt?"…

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CHRISTMAS MUSIC: Guilty Pleasures & Dirty Confessions... The Andrews Sisters...

I know it's very tacky, but I start listening to the Music Choice "Sounds of the Seasons" channel on cable during Thanksgiving week.... As silly as it is to many people, I sometimes just enjoy the simple pleasure of Christmas carols to ease my mind and lower my stress.

Having said that, I can now admit both a dirty secret AND a guilty pleasure at the same time! As if it isn’t enough that they sang “Mele Kalikimaka” with Bing Crosby, the Andrews Sisters also released “How’d Ya Like To Spend Christmas On Christmas Island?”. Talk about schmaltzy! And Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians are along for the ride. Between this song and “Mele Kalikimaka” it’s as if the music industry wanted to try to rehabilitate the image of the South Pacific after the catastrophes of Pearl Harbor and World War II!... either that or Decca Records was trying to teach American farmhands geography!

Anyway, whenever the Music Choice Channel plays “Mele Kalikimaka”, I always grab my coconut brassiere and grass skirt, run to my full-length mirror, and hope for a medley into “How’d Ya Like To Spend Christmas On Christmas Island?”! I can see all those handsome GIs waving and hooting for me again at the Munda Airstrip in the Solomon Islands! Bob Hope and the Sisters are there, and I give it my USO-best!!!  

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Sybil Bruncheon's "A Whole Month Of THANKSGIVING!": My Family's Ties to Thanksgiving...

When the Mayflower reached the new world, it first landed at the tip pf Cape Cod where the settlement of Provincetown was built! Half of my ancestors went on to Plymouth... but the rest stayed in Provincetown!!!!...which explains the difference in each branch of my family... Pil-GRIMS vs. Pil-CHEERFULS!!!!

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Sybil Bruncheon's THANKSGIVING DOs and DON'Ts... Oh, NO!!!!...

That special moment at Thanksgiving when your relatives all realize you only served the CANNED cranberry sauce!

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Sybil Bruncheon's THANKSGIVING NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD: Fribletown, Iowa. 11/23/1939

...The Chester Daley family sat down to their Thanksgiving dinner glad and grateful that they had been able to gather from the far corners of the United States. The food was bountiful and prepared with love, and they bowed their heads in heartfelt prayer. Little did they suspect that little Baby Noah was an atheist... or that eventually, when he finally entered 6th grade, he would be excommunicated by Pope Pius for clearly being the child of Satan!

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Sybil Bruncheon's THANKSGIVING bulletins from around the country: Poor Carolyn...

... she left the Brussels sprouts in the oven a little too long... and in that strange marinade too!... Julia Child had warned her in chapter 44 about "Thanksgiving DOs and DON'Ts", but NOooo!!!! ..girls like Carolyn always "know everything about everything!”… Sadly, the police arrived too late...

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Sybil Bruncheon's "A Whole Month Of Thanksgiving!"... Housewifely Hints For A Happy Holiday!...

... Ladies, (and I use that term loosely)... do you try to serve your Thanksgiving crowd a wide but still nutritious variety of side dishes with your turkey? Sure, who doesn't? But sometimes a new and untried recipe from a passing stranger, a resentful in-law, or an adulterous neighbor can turn out just terribly, can't it? Even our healthy and usually heart-friendly vegetable-dishes can suddenly become the stuff of hideous nightmares. I'm reminded of the time a supposedly prize-winning artichoke dip stood up on my beautifully laid dining table and, after kicking over the candelabras, proceeded to eat my Cousin Delia and her husband Carl, a perfectly nice aluminum-siding salesman who had never been to my home before. Well! You can imagine my embarrassment as a hostess, especially when the fire spread to adjoining blocks and killed 13. Ah well... my advice? Always, ALWAYS try out Holiday recipes a week or so beforehand. Why get caught at the last minute in a cuisine catastrophe? There'll be more suggestions in my new cook book/memoir, starting on page 312. Bon Appétit!!! 

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