Generally speaking, to me, holidays are all about the food.  I love the shopping, the food prep, the cooking and the baking.  The one major exception to food-centric pattern is Thanksgiving.  I have a long-standing Thanksgiving tradition that trumps food.  Let me explain how this came to be.

When I was a wee lass living in New York City, Thanksgiving started with a (very) early trek (ok, it was under a mile, but it was early) to Central Park West in the 70’s.  The reason?  To see the inflated and netted balloons, the numerous floats and marching bands all eagerly waiting their turn to start their march in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.   After Santa rolled past us, we would race home to watch the performances in Herald Square on TV.
I still watch the parade on TV (although the awful scripting has been making me cringe more and more), but that is not my favorite tradition.  My favorite tradition happens on the day after Thanksgiving.  But first, a bit of background is necessary.  

There are a handful of movies that I can watch over and over again and always enjoy.  I know the dialogue by heart, I anticipate every move and facial gesture and I can tell you what one misses by not watching the widescreen edition.  In fact, I have a couple of audio tapes that I made of the VHS recording (yes, this was a long time ago…) so that I could listen to the movies on long road trips.  I didn’t need the visuals because I could see them in my mind’s eye.  
There used to be a free cable network that would show a trilogy of my favorite movies every year on the day after Thanksgiving, and every year I would stay home and watch them.  Even though I could watch my own copies of the movies without commercial breaks, I always watched them on TV on that fateful Friday.  I tolerated the commercials because I wanted the communal experience of watching the same movies as millions of other people: kids home from school, their parents, babysitters and families, college students on break, people who took the day off for the long weekend and anyone else who happened to catch them on TV.

Now that we have CubeSpace, I no longer watch these movies on TV (to be honest, I don’t even know if this particular network still exists or whether they still show this particularly trilogy on the day after Thanksgiving).  But I still get the communal experience through our annual movie marathon. We invite anyone and everyone from our community at large to bring their leftovers, their knitting (crocheting, embroidery, tatting or anything else that one dos while watching movies) to watch these movies with us.  

Some of the people who generally show up are geeks like me and know the movies verbatim.  Other folks are the patient family members who tolerate this particular oddity of their loves ones.  And then there are just those seeking some company and free entertainment that does not involve traffic jams, malls or sales that start at obscene hours.  
We invite you to come join us starting at 10am on Friday.  We will be running through the movies in order, so feel free to come by at any time.  Want more details?  Give us a call at 503-206-3500 or send us an email at info@CubeSpacePDX.com.