Things We're Thankful For

Let's live together in harmony until I get greedy and give you
blankets covered in small pox, take all your land and refuse to acknowledge
the fact that your people make up many different tribes and are not "Indians" at all.
Thanks for the corn.  

Thanksgiving has passed and the holiday season is upon us.  With that comes the time to reflect and evaluate all the things we have to be thankful for.  While The Project has a deserved reputation for being a bit complain-y, we don't hate everything.  To prove it, we've put together an exhaustive list of everything we're thankful for these days.

1.  The Lexus "December to Remember" ad campaign that is so convinced of its cultural impact means people will blindly recognize its jingle while continuing to believe cars make great presents.



"Merry Christmas Honey, I got us an overinflated car payment and five years of debt!!"

2.  Tim Tebow for being the most interesting part of the current sports cycle.  In just five starts, he's turned the entire football world into a bipolar mess and has us eagerly awaiting the four-part "The Tebow Saga" movie series.

3.  Rutgers for making sure we don't have to wait another week to know if we'll be spending 2 days in South Beach just after New Year's.  Thanks guys.  That would have totally sucked.

4.  That this happened in New Jersey.



And, no, it's not because they're Indian people.  Though after a few run-ins yesterday at the mall, we think the turkey's may have been provoked.

5.  That the NBA Lockout is apparently (and finally) over.  Now ESPN can go back to over analyzing LeBron and the Heat and other things that people don't care about nearly as much as the Monolith thinks they do.

6.  Mike Greenberg's grating sincerity on "Mike and Mike in the Morning."  We get it, you really appreciate Chris Carter and his over reliance on the word "like."

7.  The Aggrotank, family of The Project.  Our esteemed B-I-L keeps us updated on all things video game, comic and otherwise nerd-related.  That's our one non-sarcastic post for the day.

8.  Brett Favre and Dale Jr. sincerely caring about our nuts.



Brett's thumb, pointer, pinky hand gesture is going to be our new "thing."  You've been warned.

9.  Black Friday starting on Thursday so people have an excuse to get away from their crazy families.  "Sorry grandma, can't stay for those delicious Little Debbie dessert cakes you "made."  Walmart's having a huge black Friday sale on handguns for $39.  I think I could use a few.  Minimum two-and-a-half per store."

10.  That our obsession with Christmas music becomes slightly less inappropriate for the next 30 days.  Readers, there is a "Top 10 Christmas Songs of All Time" post in your very near future.  Again, you've been warned.

11.  Ndamukong Suh proving that we're not alone in failing to reach our goals.

Suh on Dan Patrick's show last week:  "My main goal is not to get fined and not to have an issues [that keep me off the field]."

Suh on Thursday:




Oops.

12.  That we live in a world where an epically shitty movie like "Jack and Jill" opens with $26 million and a 3% positive rating on "Rotten Tomatoes."  At least they have cards for this sort of thing.

13.  All the people who actually read this crap (or at least accidentally click on the link while googling something else).  A year and a bit after we started, the dream, as it is, remains alive.  Thanks for the support everyone.