The Dust Has Settled and the Stuffing is Still Good

It's been a week today since The Happy Holiday Potluck, or Thanksgiving, and I still have a good amount of turkey and such left to snack on for whatever meal I feel like eating a foul for.  This post is not about that holiday, this is about what came after.  By that I mean BND, or for those who may not know it Buy Nothing Day.  Now why, you ask, do I celebrate BND?  Well, this is why.

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A massive swarm of people getting into physical confrontation over a phone.  A.  Phone.  I used to think of Black Friday as People Watchers' Holiday.  I'd go to a mall with some of my friends, grab something to eat in the food court and walk around just watching the people.  Every year I saw the same thing and every year I just got tired of it.  So now I don't buy anything on Black Friday, or Cyber Monday, or whatever other special day is made up with insane mindblowingly good deals that are only once, twice, three times a year.  I especially do not enjoy the fact that it has been slowly creeping closer and closer into the Thursday of HHP.  I lost where I was going with this... OH, okay.  Black Friday: Bad.  Consumerism on the borderline of rampage: Bad.  Turkey: Good.  Stuffing: Great.  Cranberry Sauce: Awesome.

It's not always going to be about art and art related education, sometimes you just have to say something.