PROGRAMMING NOTE: Holiday Schedule

By

The holidays are here. It's the time of year when you bite your tongue, roll your eyes pretending to like that crappy gift someone gave you. Then you secretly plot how the heck you're going to re-gift it or shove it in the back of the closet until it's time to bring out when the person who gave it to you comes over asking "hey, where's that gift I gave you"?  Yea, I'm speaking from experience.  

One of the most unusual holiday gifts I have received happened many, many years ago. It was a bottle of wine that was about 5 feet tall statue - I think it was supposed to be Bacchus the Roman/Greek god of wine. I appreciated the gesture but wow...it made my eyes roll internally. It was next to impossible to pour it because of it's shape.  And when I did manage to siphon a glass out of it, it literally tasted like the grapes were stomped on by donkeys with foot odor. It was cheap crappy wine. That swill made Boones Farm look like Dom Perignon. The image below SORT OF gives you an idea of what it looked like.  It was much taller and wider than this.

Image: Ebay

Since it's a long holiday weekend, the PW Manor elves may not be posting as frequently over the next few days. We will have Open Post and a couple of other goodies for your enjoyment.  On behalf of all of us at PW Manor we wish you, your pets and your families a safe holiday weekend. 

Happy Holidays! 

 

 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Peckerwood Manor's ELECTION PANIC-A-GOGO!

By
Image
It's happening right now! This is place to scream about the election; to vent, to rejoice, to grumble, then scream again. I swear, your throat will feel like sandpaper once this day is done. Have you voted yet? Are you in line? Post pictures! Is your heart skipping beats? Do you fear for the future? Of course you do! But crucially, do you have enough booze and pills to get through this? What, exactly, are you taking or drinking? We want to know. And what are you eating? Are you a sugar or salt whore? We want to know that, too.  Leave those who'd rather not discuss such matters to our special Election-Free Open Post , since today, for one day only, we're gettin' real and gettin' dirty  in our own gasping, shrieking, blood-soaked election post. Hold tight.   
Read more

OPEN POST: We Will Survive!

By
Image
Rise up, my chickens. We're all worth fighting for.  It won't be easy, it won't be fun, but through the long dark of night and on to a new day, it will surely be worth it. We don't regularly refer to politics in our Open Posts, but today, I think it's worth noting that many of us got through eight long years of Ronald Reagan - and it was a nightmare, and for many of my contemporaries, deadly. But here we are, we're still standing. We'll get through this, too, I promise.  What does this mean in the short-term? Tears, fury, booze, pills, or weed, of course. You have my permission - not that you need it - to comfort yourself however you like for the rest of the week. But come Monday, all bets are off. Bitches won't even see us coming. 
Read more

OPEN POST: Monday Music At The Manor With DJ Li'l Scratch!

By
Image
Are you freaking out about the election tomorrow? Me, too. Or maybe you're having a more generalized "It's Monday, oh-my-fucking-gawd" freak out? In either case, please allow Peckerwood Manor's esteemed DJ Li'l Scratch to take you away. Many of you already know about Li'l Scratch, as he regularly lays tracks at "Heavy D's," the Manor's exclusive after-hours club.  Today he's spinning Teri Thornton, a vibrant, husky-voiced jazz singer and piano player who hailed from Detroit. In 1961, she exploded onto the scene with her debut LP, "Devil May Care," demonstrating show-stopping vocal prowess. The reviews were through the roof and so was the public reception, yet just as suddenly - poof - she vanished after a few more LPs, her career thwarted by market changes given the rise of rock 'n' roll. And that was that. She was all but forgotten, reduced to driving a taxi to make ends meet.  But in a jaw-dropping comeback, she re
Read more