On Black Friday, braving freezing temperatures and rain, about twenty-five teachers and supporters rallied over a 520 overpass just a block from the Microsoft campus. The rally was to draw attention to the fact that Microsoft is one of many corporations that makes billions in profits but due to loopholes in the taxation system, pays …
12:42 AM, Troutlet Outlet Mall, Troutdale, Oregon – Coast to Coast Am is on the radio here in EPB’s remote newsroom as it is every Black Friday when I’m writing up our coverage of the year’s busiest shopping night. Tonight’s topic is the impending end of time at the end of the Mayan calendar on …
10:33pm Christmas Night – Fear not, Portland, I’m back. It’s late on Xmas day and the Bard of Black Friday, the poet of post-Christmas discount shopping, is back in the snippy, brisk Walmart parking lot coming to you live and bringing you all the latest news of crowds, shopper’s riots, pepper spraying for bargains and …
10PM – Black Friday started early this year, around 6 pm on Thanksgiving Day when my lovely wife and I headed to Portland MOR American cuisine stalwart The Village Inn near 102nd and Stark NE for their Turkey Day bird or ham plus fixins and pie for $13.75 special. We needed lots of solid food …
. It’s 2AM and I’m in the middle of a modern day Currier and Ives print. The parking lot is enervated, electric. A dazed polyglot of satisfied Walmart shoppers recess the aluminum store with armloads of discounted clothing. Cut rate electronics drop at sunup. Cellular reception bars are firm and plenteous, the inky skies are …