It’s the worst day of the year, everybody! But rather than elbowing through the fetid commercial trenches with you good people, I’m stuck working. So how is Black Friday panning out? Meh. It’s been better/worse, depending on your outlook. Thanks for only being kind of awful, guys! (Or maybe you just did all your shopping yesterday, you monsters?)
Not being forced to work today, but don’t want to slog through strip malls? Do something else! Maybe go out and enjoy one of Oregon’s fabulous state parks. For free!
Or stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, which will be demonstrating near the Lloyd Center beginning at 1 pm!
Probably a better use of your time, honestly, than the sports happening at the same time.
Get all of this done early, then head down to Pioneer Courthouse Square to watch the tree lighting at around 6 pm.
And, fine, maybe engage in a little bit of commerce. For instance, you could buy a hobby drone and make all sorts of stupid modifications to it before the stuffed shirts down in Salem come in to ruin your holiday fun. (There’s also cheap weed on offer today!)
In other news: Here’s a story about a man watching another man get shot in the face on NE Alberta, and speaking out about the troubling gun violence that’s seized Portland this year.
A man draped in an American flag hopped the fence at the White House yesterday. The flag thing didn’t make him any more endearing to the Secret Service.
Turkey and Russia are still sniping at one another over the downing of a Russian fighter jet earlier this week. Not looking hopeful at the moment for these two.
Your weekend is cold and sunny. That’s a good thing.
It’s the first Karaoke Friday of the Holiday Season, and we’re bending the rules a little bit. Instead of a bona fide karaoke video, we all of us will sing along with Brenda Kutz White, author of the finest Christmas tune in existence.