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I drove out to Pittsburgh Thanksgiving on the Pa. Turnpike. It is a road that is a monopoly because of the mountains. There is no other way to get out West without facing tons of local traffic and poor roads that go over the mountains rather than what the Turnpike does...tunneling through. Mucho dynamite was used back in the day. It is still a curvy and hilly drive. In the two decades tradition of heading out to Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving to visit my brother and his family, I have learned that it is best to stagger the trip a bit to travel on Thanksgiving and either come back Saturday or Monday. Sunday is a killer traffic jam because of aforementioned monopoly. I can't believe that the extra day is worth the hassle. Not my idea of starting the holiday season off with peace and serenity. Three days also doesn't wear out the welcome. Each day I had this delicious dish that Dawn, my brother's wife, prepared. It is really every food that I love best for Thanksgiving....

Dionysus has remained an inspiration to artists, philosophers and writers into the  modern era . In  The Birth of Tragedy  (1872), the German philosopher  Friedrich Nietzsche  proposed that a tension between  Apollonian and Dionysian  aesthetic principles underlay the development of  Greek tragedy ; Dionysus represented what was unrestrained chaotic and irrational, while Apollo represented the rational and ordered.Nietzsche claimed that the oldest forms of Greek Tragedy were entirely based on suffering of Dionysus. In Nietzsche's 1886 work.  Beyond Good and Evil , and later works  The Twilight of the Idols ,  The Antichrist  and  Ecce Homo , Dionysus is conceived as the embodiment of the unrestrained  will to power  (Wikipedia) . The pic is of Jim Morrison in the short film of their song "Summer's Almost Gone."  It was made a decade and change before MTV so I think it incorrect to call it a music vide...