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(Via – The Friendly Atheist)

So who’s cutting out early today? Where are you headed?

Kylie Minogue will perform at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. (That sound you hear is half of Hell’s Kitchen rushing to claim a front row spot.) Also performing this year: India Arie, Big Time Rush, Betty Buckley, Ann Hampton Callaway, the casts of Broadway’s American Idiot, Elf, Memphis, Million Dollar Quartet, the Big Apple Circus, the cast and Muppets …

Foodie blog Chow provides the cooking instructions for the Turkey Cake: layered sweet potatoes, stuffing, and turkey loaf. Add a mashed potato icing and top with browned marshmallows. Follow that up with a lovely cherpumple and you’ve got your entire Thanksgiving feast in two easy-to-carry boxes. (Tipped by JMG reader Jeff)

So who’s out there today? Anybody at work? Or are you all doing the Black Friday thing?

The Manhattan tradition of viewing the inflating of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day balloons along Central Park West begins tomorrow at 3PM. Via Gothamist: It’s that time again—time for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. And one of the fun traditions to watching the balloons being blown up the night before. This year’s Thanksgiving parade balloon inflation begins tomorrow at 3 p.m. …

While cities around the country try to beef up this week’s Black Friday (traditionally the #1 retail sales day of the year) by granting temporary suspensions of sales tax on clothing or other goods, the state of South Carolina will let you buy GUNS tax-free. Via NY Daily News: The great state of South Carolina is putting its own sick …

NBC has turned down PETA’s request to ruin Thanksgiving. Hey, NBC: We’d like to know … if a family-friendly announcement against abusing turkeys (who live in dark, ammonia-filled sheds where workers clip their beaks, break their legs and wings, and crush their heads) doesn’t meet your standards, then what does? When we first submitted our newest commercial to NBC in …

Thanksgiving is just two weeks away. Probably more than any other holiday, this is the one where gay folks juggle celebrations/obligations between their gay families and their bio families. Tell us how you handle this. Do you alternate years, as I used to? Do you do one and not the other? Or do you get everybody into one room?

The lawyers are rushing in to the Wal-mart death stampede case and the first lawsuit has already been filed. Yesterday an autopsy revealed that the dead employee died of “positional asphyxiation” or trampling to death. Nassau police released the findings at a news conference in which they also defended themselves from criticism – including allegations of negligence by a father …

….so said our waiter as he took this picture after our big homo-family Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. We were the last party to leave the dining room and I guess he finally felt safe to come out to us, although we’d instantly pegged him when we were seated. It was another wonderful holiday meal, our third consecutive year at this restaurant, …

For the first 18 years after I left Orlando, I always came home for Thanksgiving. But three years ago I told my bio-family that I was building a new tradition with my homo-family in NYC and would henceforth be spending Thanksgivings with them here. They understand that while I’m single and childless, I have another family here that’s as real …

At the Ali Forney Center we work hard to provide a holiday season of joy for the homeless LGBT youth who come to us for help. Many of our kids find this season challenging; it’s getting colder outside, and they really feel the pain of being rejected by their families during a time that so emphasizes family togetherness. We try …

Sarah Palin does an an intereview after pardoning a turkey, meanwhile other turkeys are slaughtered behind her.