November 23, 2007
The Day Of Stop Shopping
Black Friday, the Friday after Thanksgiving, the day where big retail shoppers traditionally break even for the year! Traditionally considered the biggest shopping day of the year! Is it retail therapy? ....Or is it kowtowing to the gods of capitalism and binding the workers who long to be free?
Well, if you're heading out to Union Square today but feel kind of guilty about it, you can at least make yourself feel a little better by stopping by the United Elves Guild of San Francisco work strike at the cable car turnaround at Powell and Market from noon to 1, where local elves are demonstrating their solidarity with Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping (whose documentary "What Would Jesus Buy?" is conveniently opening later tonight at the Lumiere).
We're looking forward to watching the Elves yell it out with the Apocalypse Tomorrow picketers and the guys who drum on the plastic buckets! As to the question if we're shopping today.... oh, we don't know, but we might at least look at some fun shiny objects while we're in the Union Square area, right?
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I was thinking of doing some thrift-shopping today. That's kind of subversive, right?
I also might get a flu shot. Fun, I know...
I'm heading out to Union Square today, and not feeling one damn bit guilty about it. You hear that, eternally-protesting radical-leftist SF establishment? Not. One. Bit. Guilty.
Someone had to say it.
There is no reason to feel guilty. Millions of idiots voted for Bush and they would do it again.
You are just a conformist. Common. Unthinking.
Good for you!
Fight terrorism! Buy more stuff! Everybody needs more stuff! If we all didn't have all our stuff, we'd just walk around all the time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
I was almost a commie but then I ran out of milk.
It used to be a family tradition that we'd all go downtown to Union Square the day after Thanksgiving to look at the holiday windows and watch the tree lighting. Fun and festive displays have been replaced by haute couture, and festive crowds have turned ugly. And what with global warming, celebrating the death of a huge tree light by fossil fuels just seems kinda wrong. Time for some new holiday traditions, I guess.
I'm a few days behind in reading SFist articles and missed the heads-up about the United Elves strike. But I will go see "What Would Jesus Buy?" again. It ran a few nights in September as part of the SF Documentary Film Fest -- thought provoking, entertaining, and disturbing ... all the right stuff in a great doc.
We have one of those aluminum christmas trees from the 1950s/60s.Eco friendly I guess.
The only shopping we do, is to donate in the name of someone at places like seva.org or mercycorps.org or doctorswithoutbordors.org
No fuss, no stress.