I was expecting to make a big thing of Thanksgiving, but I find that I'm ok finding analogies, rather than exact equivalents.
[UPDATED 11/26/17 with pictures]First off, apologies for not blogging for several days. I've had my usual interesting and happy routine, and while various things are going on, none of them seemed blog-worthy, though now looking at the posts I see that I have to do a few follow up entries since I left my faithful readers hanging about a couple of details. I promise those are forthcoming, but this is a special (not quite) Thanksgiving blog.
All this week has been "Semana de Black Friday" and according to the TV
ads it will remain "Semana de Black Friday" until November 27. This
reminds me of nothing so much as a line in El Intermedio when in response to a headline "Corruption trials dog the leadership of the PP" the host El Gran Wyoming remarked, "¿En serio? Esto será Día de la Marmota. O más bien de la Gaviota." (There's an untranslatable rhyme there, since the Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day is "Día de la Marmota" in Spanish, and the logo of the PP is a stylized blue seagull -- una gaviota.)
Black Friday ten days in a row does seem a bit groundhog day. It also
rather annoys me because Thanksgiving is one of the few holidays I
actually celebrate with family, and I've always found the idea that
somehow the focus is not supposed to be on being grateful for having
enough to eat and wanting to share good fortune with others but really shopping slightly offensive. Taking away Thanksgiving and leaving only the offensive part seems like a real shame.