Black hole taco? Click images for the original posts. Man my Photoshop skillz were mad back then!

Mmm. Remember the black jack taco from Taco Bell? Featuring “jack sauce?” Trust me, that sauce is hard to make! Oh, those were the good old days. Black taco, where art thou and why hast thou forsaken us?

Black taco. Say it with me. It just rolls off the tongue.

Black taco. Black taco. Black taco.

By the way, this post has absolutely nothing to do with black tacos. But I feel like I may need some black tacos soon. I’m craving black nourishment. I’m even feeling black.

The time draws near when black taco must ride again.

What could possibly have caused this blackout?

It might be the goddamn commercials on TV trying to coax shoppers under the premise that so-called “Black Friday” savings can now be purloined all fucking month long!!!

Whooo-eeee! Stop  your grinnin’ and drop your linen!

You mean even a loser like me can be stupid enough to give you my money? And think I’m actually getting a good deal? Because you’ve created a shopping holiday and are now trying to exploit it into a whole damn month of consumeristic frenzy?

Dear Sears. Dear Walmart. As the premium purveyors of Black Friday porn as early as October, you have earned my wrath. You’ve done a great job. I have seen your slime trails. I will not set foot in your stores no matter what.

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There are two main problems I see with the approach of trying to stretch a single fake day into more than a single fake month.

First, “Black Friday” has a time honored tradition of violence, elbow throwing, hair pulling, nail scratching, selfishness and the ever-popular trampling people to death. By stretching the holiday out so long you deprive your shoppers of the experience, and that simply isn’t “Black Friday” at all.

Secondly, it’s simply an utterly lame reason for a sale. What about all the time-honored reasons for sales?

• President’s Day
• Fourth of July
• Clinton-Lewinsky Blowjob Anniversary Day
• Inventory Blowout
• Going Out of Business (and re-opening with a new name)
• Rabid frogs ate our warehouse and we’re passing the savings on to you
• Back to School

In fact, if memory serves, there about 4,000 different types of sales and only 365 days in a year. Isn’t that enough?

I bet stores like Sears and Walmart think they are so clever. “Black Friday is out biggest shopping day of the year,” they lament. “If only there was some way to cash in on that.” It turns out there is a way. It’s called fucking Black Friday.

Recommendation

If you do decide to go to one of these lame ass sales, here’s some ideas to try to capture that “Black Friday” spirit of fun and adventure:

1. Bring ten of your friends and wait for the store to open, pounding on the front door and repeatedly chanting, “Open, open, open!”
2. When the doors open, race your friends through the store for a specific item. Only the first one to grab the item will be allowed to buy that item.
3. After that has been decided, allow one of your group of shoppers to challenge the winner to a fist fight for retention of the item.
4. Try to find and push over an innocent person, preferably elderly and/or in a mobility device and/or pregnant, then once they are on the ground and helpless try to jump over them. (Stampede Simulation.)
5. Knock over at least one merchandise display.
6. Grab a brand new Playstation 3 and go to the electronics counter and yell as loudly as you can, “I’m only paying $48.88 for this!”
7. If security tries to intervene at any point, kick them in the nards.
8. Have a laptop throwing contest. Longest toss wins a six-piece order of Chicken McNuggets or, for a limited time only, the holy grail of fast food, the McRib. Remember that official Olympic rules for this sport state: “The laptop is thrown from a circle with a diameter of 2.5 meters.” No cheating!
9. Pat each other down and beat the shit out of anyone who isn’t packing at least one fully-loaded firearm.
10. Bring along your own “security” person and try to pepper spray and tazer everyone in your group!
11. Bonus idea: Hide poop around the store to sabotage other shoppers!

Have fun!