Black Friday Came...

(Above. Video Jessica and I shot for the Riverchase Galleria in 2011, the only time we ever worked together as a team of freelancers!)

If you've heard the latest MIDNIGHT CITIZEN, then you'll know I make a big to-do about the time-honored tradition of Black Friday. For me, I look forward to it just as much as Thanksgiving. It's not about the deals or door buster prizes, though. For me, Black Friday is the greatest day ever to be out in the retail world, strictly because it combines three of my favorite things: night, shopping malls, and coffee.

Episode 145: "Black Thanksgiving"

Join Mike in the studio as he comes down from Thanksgiving and prepares for Black Friday. Topics include: getting fitted for a wedding suit at Mr. Burch and recalling having the cops called on me there when I was 17; Thanksgiving dinner at the Cracker Barrel; Black Friday memories and preparing to hit the mall, and; much more...

Show time: 56: 51

Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released November 2015 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.

Donut Drive

Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night. Topics include: supermarket hassles and quandaries; Birmingham's donut famine; movie -- "Almost Famous" (2000); Lakeview shooting in the gentrified area of down the street from my house; my neighborhood was underwater in the 1800s; notorious murders that happened in my neighborhood in the 1880s and the riots that followed; book review, "The Console Wars" and war between Sega and Nintendo of the early 90's; Grand Theft Auto Online; Black Friday, and much more!

Show time: 1:08:01

Music for this episode is "Nite Beat" by The Rat Group, available on Jamendo.com.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released December 2014, on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com) and The Midnight Citizen.

Moss Garcia

Mike is in the studio tonight, with a show all about mall cops. He explores the good, the bad and everything in between about the brave men and women in this nation's shopping malls and strip plazas, who represent the thin white line between retail order and chaos. This episode is dedicated to the late Moss Garcia, (?)-2014.

Show time: 1:06:00

Music for this episode is "Nite Beat" by The Rat Group, available on Jamendo.com.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released November 2014, on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com) and The Midnight Citizen.

SPECIAL -- "I am the Galleria"

Nothing “special”, really; just some recordings of me and Jessica walking around the Galleria mall on Black Friday. WITNESS the chaos, without worrying about being trampled upon by avaricious Americans, and FEEL the intensity of the third degree by a righteous security guard we run briefly afoul of.  Other topics and random ambiance ensue.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License. Attribution: by Mike Boody – more info at onsug.com