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 …