American Absurdism

Things that make me want to move back to the US eventually: proximity to my family.

Things that make me want to run away and hide: the fact that all day Thanksgiving and all the next day one of the main items of "news" on all radio and TV channels was "Black Friday," the biggest shopping day of the year and kick-off to the coming month's Commercialism, I mean Christmas, season.

This news loop came to a sublimely absurdist peak when we stopped for gas on the way back from Thanksgiving on Friday and there was a TV screen on the gas pump showing images of people in parking lots and big box stores. Self-referential much?