so this year i had kind of a non-traditional thanksgiving.  SA and i got some fish and made sushi, but we also had some turkey and stuff from whole foods.  the cranberry sauce from whole foods was really, really good.  it was made all fresh and had  a bit of orange juice in there - super good.  but sushi and turkey - that’s definitely a japadamus thanksgiving.

afterwards, i was driving home at like 1am on black friday, and i drove past a couple of best buys.  the lines were insane - they were wrapping around the whole store.  and it’s not like it was comfortable weather either, i would say it was in the 50s - which is pretty cold for cali.  anyway, that made me not really want to do anything special for black friday.  i hate all these crowds - it’s just too crazy to stand in line all this time just to get a good price on a generic lcd tv or something.  i did some pretty thoround research on these black friday deals and there wasn’t really anything that spectacular - especially nothing i would camp out overnight for.  i mean, i can understand camping out for a ps3, especially if you are going to sell it for a profit.  but i mean, look at this shit - nothing to wait for in my opinion.

I did end up going to walmart on black friday because i needed a new water filter.  it was a mess.  it was packed, and the thing about black friday is that people feel the need to bring their whole families.  at  walmart, this means that you have families with 5 or 6 kids running around like it’s cinco de mayo.  and you always have these parents who feel like black friday is the perfect time to teach their kids how to push a cart, so you have all these f’ing kids driving carts into shit or just leaving them in the middle of aisles.  then there’s the strollers - you have these double strollers - which i guess is necessary for these families with 6 kids.  but they really have no place in a store.  you can’t get around them, and when it’s busy that means you can’t really move them anywhere.  i must have seen 10 strollers with babies in them just sitting unattended in walmart - like the parents were just trying to get their kids kidnapped.  incidentially, if you’re trying to get your kid stolen, walmart is not a great place to go - the last time those people need is more kids. i mean, i hate to beat a dead horse, but, you get the point.

I’ve also been watching this season of survivor cook islands.  the big deal this year is that the tribes were initially divided by race.  this meant that instead of having one tolken asian, they have 5.  anyway, this last episode - and this will be a spoiler - they converged the two separate tribes into one tribe.  it was probably the best epiode so far. 

Basically, there are two asians left: yul, who is this smart k who is a very strong player, and becky, who is also a pretty hot k girl, and is really tight with yul.  the white kids are a disaster.  i mean, it’s like they think they’re on the real world, not survivor.  they’re hooking up and getting f’ed up and stuff.  adam is the typical white frat boy, a copier salesman in real life, who flirts constantly with the white hos, candace, a student, and parvati, a waitress.  the other white guy left is jonathan, who is an older writer/producer, who did this mutiny thing where he pretty much alienated himself from everyone.  he’s not really down with the other whites, and as i’ll mention later is more aligned with the others.  there’s only one mexican left, ozzy, who is a really good survivor, and nate and sundra, who are popolos.

anyway, this last episode they joined tribes, and the big thing was that jonathan became kind of the swing vote, because you have becky, yul, ozzy and sandra on one side (the former aitu tribe), adam, candace, parvati, jonathan and nate on the other side (the former raro tribe).  but jonathan and candace had mutinied to raro - the weren’t organic members - candace so she could hook up with adam, and jonathan, for what reason, i don’t know.  candace was cool with raro, because she is all flirty with adam, possibly their strongest player.  jonathan went over because he thought he was tight with candace, but really she didn’t care for him, and the rest of raro looked at him as a traitor.

but, in the vote jonathan f’s over his former raro teammates and votes with aitu to get nate kicked off.  that was a big deal because it shifted the game so that the former aitu tribe now has power in numbers, assuming that jonathan doesn’t switch again.

nate was pretty pissed off when he got voted out.  in the end credits, he said “Jonathan, you can kiss my ass! You a dirty stanky, whack fruitcake who sold me out, who sold out our tribe when we brought you in. You trading bastard. So kiss my ass, Jonathan.”

actually that comment made me happy - it was really encouraging.  it shows how far racial relations have progressed in our country.  imagine a black person being surprised that a white man sold him out.  fifty years ago, the black guy would expect the white guy to sell him out.  but not today…that is progress.

actually, i was also kind of surprised that nate didn’t expect jonathan to f him over.  i mean, nate is a real, chest beating, keeping it real kind of popolo, and for the past two weeks he’s been talking shit about jonathan, like how jonathan wasn’t part of their original tribe, and how they gotta keep it real and stick together and how jonathan’s not pulling his weight, and what not.  so, for nate to be surprised that jonathan f’ed him over was pretty ignorant.  i mean, nate would have cut jonathan in a second if it was up to him.

so anyway, raro really wanted to vote yul out, because yul is a solid competitor, and he is also pretty smart.  at one point, nate said, “yul is intelligent.  i do not want that boy thinking anymore.  you know what i’m saying, you don’t want that clock ticking in there, homie.” which really says a lot about nate.

so yul convinced jonathan to come to their side, and jonathan convinced them to vote off nate, and that was that.  it was a big stretch for yul and aitu to trust jonathan, because jonathan had already f’ed aitu over when he muntinited, but anyway, it worked out.

another interesting thing about this survivor is that 13 of the original 20 people are from california.  it’s weird, it kind of makes you wonder if these people are actors or what.

anyway, that was black friday…japadamus out!

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