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Weather: Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the mid 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph. Friday Night:
Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Today at a Glance:
Garbage pick-ups resume normal schedule in Palm Coast. Courts, schools, most government officers are closed.
In Coming Days:
Nov. 25: Tree-lighting ceremony: The City of Palm Coast is inviting residents and visitors to the 11th Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony at Central Park in Town Center, 975 Central Ave., Palm Coast from 6 to 9 p.m. Join Santa, the Palm Coast City Council, and the Rotary Club of Flagler County as they count down to the lighting of a beautiful tree and celebrate the arrival of the most wonderful time of the year! Details here.
Staring Nov. 25: Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center: Nightly from 6 to 9 p.m. at Palm Coast’s Central Park, with 55 lighted displays you can enjoy with a leisurely stroll around the pond in the park. Admission to Fantasy Lights is free, but donations to support Rotary’s service work are gladly accepted. Holiday music will pipe through the speaker system throughout the park, Santa’s Village, which has several elf houses for the kids to explore, will be open, with Santa’s Merry Train Ride nightly (weather permitting), and Santa will be there every Sunday night until Christmas, plus snow on weekends! On certain nights, live musical performances will be held on the stage.
Dec. 23: Culmination of toy drive for Toys for Tots at AW Custom Kitchens, European Village, starting at 11 a.m. A drawing for all eligible participants will take place at 2 p.m. Anyone who will have donated toys for the drive will have a chance to win various items, including a 65-inch 4K Smart TV, an Apple iPad, a pair of Apple Air Pods, and gift cards from the co-sponsors of the event. Fifty such cards have been donated. With proof of a voucher, donors also will receive a free hot dog, a free drink, a free popcorn, a free cotton candy, and a free snow cone. There will be a variety of fun things to do such as a bouncy house for children in thanks to the community for its generosity. See details here.
Notably: Black Friday is as obscene as as American consumerism gets–shopping as an end in itself, waste as virtue, capitalism as crusading–though it’s not necessarily as bad as we imagine it to be anymore. If we are tempted to see silver linings, we’re fooled even then. “We must,” an unauthored post at Duke’s Kenan Institute for Ethics went in 2012, “think about the intentions of these anxious shoppers. Families with limited means may see Black Friday deals as the only opportunity to buy popular, new items for their loved ones. Going to the sales then becomes something that people do not out of an uncontrollable greed, but an admirable love. Black Friday deals, especially for those that are economically constrained, may be impossible to resist. What these frugal shoppers don’t know though is that Black Friday deals often fool us into paying more than we should. Black Friday is every retailer’s most important game of the year, and they enter the battlefield well prepared to make consumers help them leave the red and enter the black.”
—P.T.
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November 2023
Friday, Nov 24
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday, Nov 24
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Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Friday, Nov 24
Blue 24 Forum
Saturday, Nov 25
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Saturday, Nov 25
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Flagler School District Bus Depot
Saturday, Nov 25
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach
Saturday, Nov 25
Tree-Lighting Ceremony in Central Park
Central Park in Town Center
Saturday, Nov 25 – Saturday, Dec 30
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Central Park in Town Center
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Clearly Playboy had lost its way, and this made me feel old and sad and foreign, because Playboy had been a cornerstone of American life for as long as I could remember. Every man and boy I knew read Playboy. Some men, like my dad, pretended not to. He used to get embarrassed if you caught him looking at it at the supermarket, and would pretend that he was really looking for Better Homes and Gardens or something. But he read it. He even had a little stash of men’s magazines in an old hatbox at the back of his clothes closet. Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men’s magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about. Once in a while we would swap our dads’ magazines among ourselves and then imagine their perplexity when they went to the closet and found that instead of last month’s issue of Gent they now possessed a two-year-old copy of Nugget and, as a bonus, a paperback book called Ranchhouse Lust. You could do this knowing that your dad would never say a word to you about it. All that would happen would be that the next time you went back the stash would be in a different place. I don’t know whether women in the fifties didn’t sleep with their husbands or what, but this dedication to girlie magazines was pretty well universal. I think it may have had something to do with the war.
–From Bill Bryson’s The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989).
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