i endeavor to age with the grace of f. murray abraham

“I mean, it’s a pe­nis. It’s not a sunset.”
—Bert Di Gras­so, from the new sea­son of White Lotus
 

When I first moved to Cal­i­for­nia (as an adult and thus away from fam­i­ly and the thanks­giv­ings I’d grown up on) one of my clos­est friends was/is Fil­ipino and he in­sist­ed that since I’d be alone on thanks­giv­ing I must come to his family’s thanksgiving. 

I didn’t want to im­pose but I am so glad he talked me into it cuz holy hell is was magnificent.

Two Fil­ipino fam­i­lies on the same block joined forces for the great­est thanks­giv­ing spread you’ve even seen!

Sure, you had all the tra­di­tion­al thanks­giv­ing dish­es: The turkey, the stuff­ing, all that. But you ALSO had every oth­er great food ever. There was lasagna, there was steak, there was, of course, lumpia. 

You name it, they had it. And a lot of it and of­ten a cou­ple ver­sions of it. 

I’ve been told that this is stan­dard in Fil­ipino culture. 

It was wonderful. 

—ja­son malmberg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2022 Ja­son Malmberg.

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