After Thursday's turkey and stuffing festivities have subsided and digested, Friday is when your wallet takes a hit on Black Friday, the day retailers hope to move into the black. But this year, due to our tanking economy, retailers are bound to come up short. (Even Oprah is turning her awe-inspiring "favorite things" episode into a DIY show. Pft.)
Choose Your Own Adventure: Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Buy Nothing Day
Wednesdays, The New Wednesdays
What a friend we have in Wednesdays! Today: You've always wanted to be in movies, we can totally tell. Well, stop by the DeYoung and get interviewed by film artist Lise Swenson about the new museum. Swenson's putting together a multimedia installation about citizens' perspectives on art museums as civic institutions. Interviews run from 1 to 5, and her documentary screens at 1:30 and 2:30. You've always wanted to be shown in museums!
Thursday: Stop by the SF Zoo at 11 a.m. and watch them feed the turkeys -- before you go home and let your friends and relatives feed the turkeys to you. Bourbon red turkey Ben and his adoring throng of lady turkeys will be dining on mealworms and crickets. While you're there, stop by and check out the new reindeer too.
Friday: Throw out that free MUNI transfer to Powell Street and spend the day after Thanksgiving at Artists Television Access celebrating Buy Nothing Day. ATA's showing anti-consumerist films and parody ads, along with art installations, spoken word, and musical performances by The Middleclass Assassins and I will kill you f***er. Show starts at 8. The crowds at H&M are gonna be nuts anyways.
Stage Fog: Holiday Shows
Whether you observe National Buy Nothing Day or not, take a break this weekend to do some early holiday theatergoing.
SFist Listens
SFist listens: what our contributors are rocking on the ipod
Buy Nothing Day. Really? Nothing?
Just a reminder that you'd better buy your SFist schwag now because tomorrow is Buy Nothing Day. Of course, we're torn. On one hand we have principles and on the other a very high credit limit and lots of sparkly things in shop windows. We're not crazy enough to venture into Union Square territory - we value what little sanity we have left - but no coffee or iTunes? Nothing?

