"When everything else has gone from my brain ... what will be left, I believe, is topology: the dreaming memory of land as it lay this way and that." Annie Dillard
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Friday, November 26, 2010
Freaky Friday
I don't remember exactly when I first heard this day described as Black Friday, but it couldn't have been more than 10 years ago. Since then the commercial has steadily encroached on the celebratory to the point where sales start only a couple of hours after the dishes are dried and the leftovers put away.
Don't get me wrong: I like bargains. And this day has always been the traditional start of the Christmas season. But the marketplace rules us so much anyway that I resent its claiming any more turf.
So when others were out scoring bargains I was sleeping. And now that the day is more than half over I'm just writing a post.
It's a freaky Friday.