Well another Black Friday has come and gone and Mike should have the specs from this one up in the next day or so. But I thought I'd take some time to take a look at back at all the great times and entertaining events to happen on my favorite day of the year.
So I now present to you all...

Top Ten Black Friday Moments

10.Finnigans Wake - 2005 - I've always loved going to Finnigan's Wake, pretty much my favorite bar...but to have the strength...nay the courage, to walk in there and drink and rock with The Loop after having been up and running around since 5:00 AM that morning was a real moment of personal triumph.

9.Graceful Exit - 2003 - Love Actually was sold out when we went to see it on Thanksgiving. So accompanied by Joe, Connie, and Jamie we tried to see it again on BF. Again it was sold out. So we all went to Joe's house and they popped in Bad Boys 2. Within minutes we were all falling asleep. So Jamie, Mike, said we were going to go home and go to sleep. Then we saw Love Actually's next showtime instead.

8.Touch Football - 2007 - TW invited us to his annual family reunion with finger foods/touch football game in 2005, but we declined. This year we went and we got to witness people playing touch football in shorts in November. Maybe next year we'll actually play!

7.Saves The Day - 2002 - The only time theres been a concert worth seeing around here on a Black Friday was when Saves The Day played Lancaster's Chameleon Club in 02...And they brough the damn house down with an electric set during this "Stay What You Are" era tour...plenty of Through Being Cool classics, and nothing slow and plodding to slow the show. Total rockage.

6.Delaware, 3:00 AM - 2007 - RJ, waiting on his sister to give birth and unable to participate in a full days activities, conceded to meeting us at 3:00 AM at Christiana Mall for there "Rockin' Shopping Eve". I wonder how many sticks of butter he was at by the time we had to walk out of Denny's because of employee incompetence.

5.Parade Of Guest Stars - 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 07 - The great thing about this day (besides the doorbuster sales) seems to be the involvement of our many friends. From people we see once a year, to people we see every week, its great to lure other people into our insanity. So thanks to Joe, Connie, Jamie, Eugene, RJ, TW, TW's sister, R. Todd, Moira, Brian, and anyone else whose ever been there for hanging out with us the day after Thanksgiving.

4.Just Friends - 2005 - I can't help it...I love that damn movie!

3.DVD Player Victory - 2001 - The whole BF event was ignited by one Circuit City ad 7 years ago...The item? A DVD player. The (at the time) amazingly low price? 70.00. And so as I scrambled into the store and pounced on one of the last few preciously (at the time) cheap boxes, a feeling came over me...the feeling that I had never truly lived until that moment.

2.Five Movies Ticket Purchase - 2004 - To describe the look on the clerks face as we each bought tickets to 5 different movies in one day I'd need an entire Thesaurus. The one best word to use though is probably bewilderment. And maybe annoyance. At any rate 5 movies, 1 day has been attempted since, duplicated never...and its probably best that way.

1.Target Riot - 2003 - As we pushed our way over and through other shoppers in a mad dash to the electronics section with me screaming "WHERES THE 17 DOLLAR DVD PLAYERS?!?!?!?" To every worker I saw and then grabbing one as other people became aware of the price through my insane shouts, something happened. You could see the look in the peoples eyes...something snapped within them. They became like one incensed mob entity seeking only cheap DVD players like a Zombie would seek brains. Too bad a couple seconds later I discovered there were indeed no 17 dollar DVD players. I hope no one was hurt because of my assumption. Oh well.

You know whats awesome? The motherfucking opening sequence to G.I. Joe The Movie. For 3 minutes and 7 seconds G.I. Joe battles Cobra in an air battle
around the Statue Of Liberty using JETPACKS!
The main crux of the fight centers around Cobra Commander trying to blow up the Statue with a silly looking countdown clock bomb (handed to him by my personal favorite, DESTRO!) But Duke foils him, and of course CC yells retreat with a crazy hokey split screen going on.
Of course the truly best part is the extended alternate version of the G.I. Joe theme blasting the entire time. But don't take my word for it...watch it for yourself here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN034sBeF4c

Maybe I'll buy the DVD tomorrow. Lord knows my VHS copy isn't going to cut the mustard forever.
YO JOE!

It seems no one ever knows what to get me for the Holiday season because I hate specifically asking for things, and because I usually just end up buying whatever for myself before anyone else can get to it...so I'm making it easier on everyone this year and posting some stuff I would enjoy. This is in addition to the always welcome gift of TV Shows on DVD Box Sets, of which I always need some. If you want to know whats on my list there, I'll just throw a couple out there...Seinfeld Seasons 8 and 9, Simpsons Season 9 and 10, NewsRadio Season 5, South Park Season 10, The OC Season 4, etc. etc.

So heres my want list. Its by no means everything in the world I want, just some suggested things I might like...keep an open mind towards surprising me entirely with something not on the list at all!

http://www.tenclub.net/goods/
- Pearl Jam VS The Ames Bros. Book

http://www.fanfire.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/fanfire.woa/wa/
- Incubus Hat

http://www.fanfire.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/fanfire.woa/wa/
- Incubus T-Shirt (Large)

http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/ticketing/index.jsp?
- Phillies Tickets

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000P297F2/ref=s9_asin_t
- Resident Evil:Umbrella Chronicles For Nintendo Wii

http://www.amazon.com/Jingle-All-Way-Family-Fun/dp/B000TJ
- Jingle All The Way Family Fun Edition

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8355282&st=
- Tom Tom GPS System

http://www.toysrus.com/search/index.jsp?kw=lost&f=Taxonom
- Any of the L O S T Collectibles on this page


https://34887.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/Article/Index/art
- Beerfest Long Sleeve T-Shirt (Large)


https://34887.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/Article/Index/art
- Super Troopers "Liter Of Cola" Hoody