Thanksgiving in July

Roll up your sleeves, practice your gravy-making, and get your pilgrim costumes ready… it’s time for the 5th annual TIJ. Don’t miss out - it’s on 7/10/10. See you there!

I know you’ve been waiting all year for this folks. Actually, so have we. After 3 false starts, many heated debates, and a spreadsheet to determine availability, we have finally settled on the date. The Fourth Annual Thanksgiving in July will be on Saturday, July 25, 2009. More info to follow!

The local free San Diego Reader has a Party Crasher column each week, and we invited Josh the party crasher to crash Thanksgiving in July. For what it’s worth, here’s a complete stranger’s impression of the day.

Photos, photos, and more photos of the festivities!

Words cannot describe what took place on Thanksgiving in July (especially not the day after TIJ, when words come a bit more slowly than usual). Luckily, we’ve got numbers:
number of chairs at the thanksgiving table: 100
approximate number of chairs filled: 80?
number of guests who flew in for the occasion:19
number of guests who biked from Portland [...]

TIJ is only as magical as the thanksgiving meal that is spread out before our hungry eyes. (Ok, it’s also magical because of the guests attending and because of the rediculous stuff that also goes on that day). But the meal itself is always something to behold.
We’ll be supplying the turducken; you’ll have to collectively [...]

After many weeks and much seeking of approval from the fire department, “risk management,” and the SDPD, the kind City of San Diego has just approved the block party permit for TIJ to be held in the street!  Huzzah!

At the suggestion of our faithful TIJ Treasurer, a paypal account has been set up to accept all contributions to the general over-the-topness of the day. The idea is, the larger we know our budget is, the more ridiculous we can guarantee the day will be.  So if you feel like you might be inclined [...]

Iowa Meat Farms will officially be hand-crafting our turducken this year. (and, just in case we need it, they will gladly add a second turducken to our order as long as we give them a week’s notice).

Thanksgiving in July began as a humble “holiday” in 2006, with 12 friends and friends-of-friends gathered around a makeshift dining room table to feast on a traditional Thanksgiving meal in the middle of July. It has since expanded to a grandiose and extravagant celebration embracing the very essence of the capricious magic that a spectacular [...]