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Happy holidays

Your Thanksgiving movie and entertainment for this weekend

and one of the great scenes from it:

Observations on a holiday

1) It's always great when Christmas is over (at least for me); 2) The sunshine this holiday was fantastic. Just one more gift; 3) There surely were some odd things about people yesterday; 4) It's always nice to be able to visit with people--family and friends--if even briefly; 5) I have no idea how my daughter knew to come up with the perfect gift for me; 6) The best part of the entire holiday is always--always--the Christmas Eve I get to spend with my daughter. If I can have that, I need no material gift. It's all I want; 7) I always cry at the end of the Christmas Eve church service when, at the end, everyone sings "Silent Night", acapella, each with our own lit candle. It's so beautiful; 8) If the minister knew this year, I think there were plenty in the audience who didn't, how right he was about "people hurting out there." At least he knew.

Today is annual "Buy Nothing Day"--Enjoy

That's right, today, Friday, November 25--the last Friday of November, usually the first day of the big holiday purchasing season is "Buy Nothing Day". Do yourself the favor. Instead of fighting crowds of people trying to get things at stores when every other person is out there doing the same thing--let it go. You can passively fight the consumerism this way. Relax. Enjoy.

Another view--below--of the flash mob at Crown Center Sunday

Very, very cool.

Not really a true "flash mob", but what they hey.    I hope it becomes an annual tradition in town.

Man, I wish I had been there

                                Merry Christmas, y'all

Link:  http://www.kansascity.com/2010/12/19/2531136/random-act-of-culture-strikes.html

A glimmer of hope on the Plaza

 

Of course, this is good news, what with the Country Club Plaza apparently getting a big, new retail tenant--next year. That's some good news, sure.

And I was happy to see Brookstone was going into the old Sharper Image site but then looked closer.

It's for the holidays and only for the holidays.

Word has it Brookstone wanted to negotiate a permanent store location there but Plaza management said "No", as always. They'd rather pretend they are the high-end retail location they want to be, rather than be realistic and fill the space.

That should sound terribly familiar since they did the same thing to Meiner's, what? 5 or 6 years ago?

Instead of giving that terrific little store/restaurant a financial break, they preferred to throw them out and have it closed up--empty--ever since. Area residents on the Plaza needed a little grocer, sure, and they were a great tenant. The bistro they ran was fun and attractive and served reasonably-priced and good food but negotiate a lower lease?

Oh, heck no.

That just makes too much sense.

The space would be full, sure, and people could do commerce and we'd still be making money but not the highbrow money we want. That would never do.

Talk about pretzel logic.